AP Lit Terms

Repetition at close intervals of initial consonant words

• Alliteration

• Synecdoche

• Rhyme

• Assonance

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Describes a line of poetry in which the sense and grammatical construction continues on to the next line

• Free Verse

• Enjambment

• Iambic Pentameter

• Refrain

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

The atmosphere suggested by the structure and style of the poem

• Mood

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

• Tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

Statement or situation containing seemingly contradictory elements

• Paradox

• Oxymoron

• Parallelism

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Saying less than one means, for effect

• Tone

• Synecdoche

• Hyperbole

• Understatement

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Writer's attitude toward the audience or subject, implied or related directly

• Persona

• Personification

• Irony

• Tone

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which of the following uses an "oxymoron"?

• This statement is false.
• I must be cruel to be kind.
• She has an unbiased opinion about the situation.
• I am nobody.

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

What is the definition of PERSONIFICATION?

• Giving an inanimate object human like qualities or form
• A figure of speech that compares unlike objects
• A figurative comparison using the words "like" or "as"
• The repetition of one or more initial consonant in a group of words or lines of poetry or prose. writers use this for ornament or for emphasis

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

Which one of these uses PARALLELISM?

• The white kite was in flight at night.
• I do not like them in a boat. I do not like them with a goat.
• Mammals named Sam are clammy.
• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

Which phrase uses SIMILE?

• It's raining men!
• These students are animals!
• She likes to argue.
•  I love you like a love song, baby. 

Tags

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4