AP literary terms for AP lit exam
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| Allegory | story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstaract ideas or qualities
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| Alliteration | repetition of the same or similiar consonant sounds in words that are close together
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| Allusion | An indirect reference to something (usually from literature, etc.)
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| Ambiguity | deliberately suggesting two or more different,and something conflicting, menaings in a work
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| Analogy | Comparison made between two things to show how they are alike
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| Anaphora | repition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row
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| Anastrophe | purpose in rhythm or emphasis or euphony
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| Anecdote | Brief story
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| Antagonist | opponent who struggles against or blocks hero
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| Antimetabole | repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order
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| Antithesis | balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure
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| Antihero | Central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with heros
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| Anthropomorphism | attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object
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| Aphorism | brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life, or of a principle or accepted general truth
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| Aposthrophe | calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea
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| Apposition | placing in immediately succeeding order of two or more coordiante elements, the latter of which is an explanation, qualification, or modification of the first
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