AP Literary Devices for AP Lit. Exam
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| Diction | a speaker or writer's choice of words.
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| Didactic | form of fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking.
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| Elegy | a poem of mourning, usually about someone who has died.
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| Epanalepsis | device of repetition in which the same expression (single word or phrase) is repeated both at the beginning and at the end of the line, clause, or sentence.
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| Epic | a long narrative poem, writing in heightened language, which recounts the deeds of a heroic character who embodies the values of a particular society.
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| Epigraph | a quotation or aphorism at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of the theme.
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| Epistrophe | device of repetition in which the same expression ( single word or phrase) is repeated at the end of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences (it is the opposite of anaphora).
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| Epithet | an adjective or adjective phrase applied to a person or thing that is frequently used to emphasize a characteristic quality.
ex. "Father of our country" and "the great Emancipator."
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| Homeric epithet | is a compound adjective used with a person or thing: "swift-footed Achilles"; "rosy-fingered dawn."
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| Essay | a short piece of nonfiction prose in which the writer discusses some aspect of a subject.
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