AP Literary Terms (1) Flashcards
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| 10565542230 | Allegory | Story where characters, settings, and events stand for something else |  | 0 |
| 10565542231 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds |  | 1 |
| 10565545126 | Allusion | Reference to something that is known in old and modern culture |  | 2 |
| 10565545127 | Ambiguity | An event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way | 3 | |
| 10565545128 | Analogy | Comparison between two things to show how they're similar |  | 4 |
| 10565549317 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses |  | 5 |
| 10565554368 | Anastrophe | Inversion of the natural or usual word order |  | 6 |
| 10565554369 | Anecdote | Brief story told to illustrate a point |  | 7 |
| 10565556730 | Antagonist | A character or force in conflict with the main character |  | 8 |
| 10565564202 | Antimetabole | Repetition of words in reverse order |  | 9 |
| 10565566666 | Antithesis | Balancing words or phrases that are contrasted often by grammatical structure |  | 10 |
| 10565573499 | Diction | word choice |  | 11 |