AP Lit: Literary Terminology

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Adjective

A word or phrase naming an attribute, added to or grammatically related to a noun to modify or describe it

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Adverb

A word or phrase that modifies or qualifies or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc.

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Alliteration

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of an adjacent or closely connected words

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Allusion

To call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference

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Alternative Interpretations

Analyses of a text that are different from your own

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Ambiguity

The quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness

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Analogy

A comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it

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Antagonist

The character or force which stands in opposition to the protagonist

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Antecdent

An earlier, clause, phrase, or which to which a pronoun, noun, or another word refers

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Antithesis

Putting together two opposite ideas using parallel structure in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect

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Archetypal (character)

A typical, common, or recurring character in literature who represents a universal pattern of human nature

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Archetypes (“universal symbols”)

A character, theme, symbol, or setting that has a recurring representation in a particular human culture or race

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Associations

A connection between ideas or things

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Attribution

Ascribing a work or remark to a particular author, artist, or person

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Body Paragraph

A paragraph that comes between the introduction and the conclusion

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Alliteration

“Sweet birds sang”

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Allusion

“Don’t be a Scrooge.”

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Analogy

“She’s as blind as a bat.”

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Antecedent

Chelsey finished her presentation.

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Adverb

“She spoke softly.”

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Adjective

“He is a fast driver.”

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Antithesis

“My only love sprung from my only hate.”

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Archetypal (character)

The hero, the mother figure, the mentor, the scapegoat, the innocent youth, etc.

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