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AP lit Tatiana
AP literay terms fo AP lit exam
Question | Answer |
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Allegory | story or poem in which characters, setting and events stand for other people/events for abstact ideas. |
Alliteration | repetition of the same or similar constant sounds in words that are close together. |
Allusion | reference to someone or something that is known from history. |
Ambiguity | suggesting two or more different meanings in a work. |
Analogy | comparison made between two things to show how they are alike. |
Anaphora | repetition of a word at the beginning of two sentences in a row. |
Anastrophe | Inversion of the usual o logical order of the parts of a sentence. |
Anecdote | brief story |
Antagonist | opponent who blocks the hero |
Antimetabole | Repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order. |
Antithesis | Balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted. |
Antihero | Central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with heroes. |
Anthropomorphism | Atributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object. |
Aphorism | brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life. |
Apostrophe | calling out an imaginary noun. |
Apposition | Placing an immidiately succeeding order of two or more coordinate elements, the latter of which is an explanation |
Assonance | the repitition of |