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AP Lit. Vianey
AP Literary Devices for AP Lit. Exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Allegory | story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities |
| Alliteration | repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together. |
| Allusion | reference to someone or something that is known from history, lit., or another branch of culture. An indirect reference to something. |
| Ambiguity | an event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way, done on purpose by the author. When it is not done on purpose it is vagueness and detracts from the work. |
| Analogy | comparison made between two things to show how they are alike. |
| Anaphora | repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row. |
| Anastrophe | inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence. |
| Anecdote | brief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something, often shows character of an individual. |
| Antagonist | opponent who struggles against or blocks the hero, or protagonist, in a story. |
| Antimetabole | repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order. |
| Antithesis | balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure. |
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