AP Literature - Literary Terms QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSQWERS.

AP Literature - Literary Terms QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSQWERS.

allegory - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to
reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.

alliteration - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅It is a stylistic device in which a number of words,
having the same first consonant sound, occur close together in a series.

allusion - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A brief and indirect reference to a person, place,
thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance.

anagram - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters
of another word or phrase

anaphora - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A rhetorical figure of repetition in which the same
word or phrase is repeated in (and usually at the beginning of) successive lines,
clauses, or sentences.

anastrophe - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Inversion of the natural or usual word order

antagonist - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A character or force in conflict with the main
character

antecedent - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a
pronoun.

antithesis - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A balancing of two opposite or contrasting words,
phrases, or clauses.

aphorism - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a
wise observation about life.

apostrophe - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A figure of speech that directly addresses an
absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.

assonance - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more
words in close proximity

asyndeton - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A series of words separated by commas (with no
conjunction), e.g. "I came, I saw, I conquered." The parts of the sentence are

, emphasized equally; in addition, the use of commas with no intervening conjunction
speeds up the flow of the sentence.

blank verse - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

cacophony - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Harsh, discordant, or meaningless mixture of
sounds

cadence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Rhythmic rise and fall

caesura - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually
near the middle of the line.

conceit - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an
extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects.

connotation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅All the meanings, associations, or emotions that
a word suggests

consonance - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Repetition of a consonant sound within two or
more words in close proximity.

couplet - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not
constitute a separate stanza in a poem.

dactyl - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed
syllables

denotation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Dictionary definition of a word

denouement - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot

diction - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The choice and use of words and phrases in speech
or writing

didactic - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Intended to instruct; teaching, or teaching a moral
lesson

dirge - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅a funeral hymn or mournful speech

dramatic irony - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Irony that occurs when the meaning of the
situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play.