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AP literary terms for AP lit exam 1
Question | Answer |
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Allegory | story/poem where characters, settings, & events stand for other people/events or abstract ideas/qualities. |
Alliteration | repetition of same/similar consonant sounds in words that are close together. |
Allusion | reference to someone/something that's known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports science, or other branch of culture. |
Ambiguity | suggesting 2 or more different conflicting, meanings in a work. |
Analogy | comparison made between 2 things to show how they are alike. |
Anaphora | repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of 2 or more sentences in a row. |
Anastrophe | inversion of usual, normal, or logical order of parts of a sentence. |
Anecdote | brief story, told to illustrate a point orserve as an example of something. |
Antagonist | opponent who struggles against/blocks the hero/protagonist, in a story. |
Antimetabole | repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical story. |
Antithesis | balancing words, phrases or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure. |