The Glossary of Literary Terms for the AP English Literature and Composition Test
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| 6594648667 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration or deliberate overstatement. |  | 0 |
| 6594648668 | Irony | A statement that means the opposite of what it seems to mean; uses an undertow of meaning. This includes dramatic, verbal, and situational ironies. |  | 1 |
| 6594648669 | Metaphor | A comparison or analogy that states one thing IS another. |  | 2 |
| 6594648670 | Simile | A comparison or analogy that typically uses like or as. |  | 3 |
| 6594648671 | Objectivity | Treatment of subject matter in an impersonal manner or from an outside view. |  | 4 |
| 6594648672 | Subjectivity | A treatment of subject matter that uses the interior or personal view of a single observer and is typically colored with that observer's emotional responses. |  | 5 |
| 6594648673 | Onomatopoeia | Words that sound like what they mean |  | 6 |
| 6594648674 | Oxymoron | A phrase composed of opposites; a contradiction. |  | 7 |
| 6594648675 | Parable | A story that instructs. |  | 8 |
| 6594648676 | Paradox | A situation or statement that seems to contradict itself, but on closer inspection, does not. |  | 9 |
| 6594648677 | Parallelism | Repeated syntactical similarities used for effect. |  | 10 |
