AP ENGLISH LITERATURE AND
COMPOSITION FINAL PAPER 2026
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
VERIFIED A+
◉ imagery
Answer: descriptive language used in literature to recreate sensory
experiences relating to sight, taste, touch, hearing, and smell
◉ in medias res
Answer: Latin for in the middle of things
◉ situational irony
Answer: when a character or the reader expects one thing to happen
but something else actually happens
◉ verbal irony
Answer: when a writer or character says one thing but means
another
◉ jargon
, Answer: the special language of a profession or group
◉ juxtaposition
Answer: two contrasting elements side by side
◉ metonymy
Answer: a figure of speech that substitutes something closely related
for the thing actually meant
◉ motif
Answer: a recurring literary convention or element that is repeated
within a literary work
◉ paradox
Answer: a statement that seems to be contradictory but that actually
reveals some element of truth
◉ parallelism
Answer: the repetition of a grammatical pattern to express ideas
that are related or equal in importance
◉ personification
Answer: when a nonhuman object is given human characteristics
COMPOSITION FINAL PAPER 2026
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
VERIFIED A+
◉ imagery
Answer: descriptive language used in literature to recreate sensory
experiences relating to sight, taste, touch, hearing, and smell
◉ in medias res
Answer: Latin for in the middle of things
◉ situational irony
Answer: when a character or the reader expects one thing to happen
but something else actually happens
◉ verbal irony
Answer: when a writer or character says one thing but means
another
◉ jargon
, Answer: the special language of a profession or group
◉ juxtaposition
Answer: two contrasting elements side by side
◉ metonymy
Answer: a figure of speech that substitutes something closely related
for the thing actually meant
◉ motif
Answer: a recurring literary convention or element that is repeated
within a literary work
◉ paradox
Answer: a statement that seems to be contradictory but that actually
reveals some element of truth
◉ parallelism
Answer: the repetition of a grammatical pattern to express ideas
that are related or equal in importance
◉ personification
Answer: when a nonhuman object is given human characteristics