AP Literature Vocabulary

repetition of initial consonant sounds

• alliteration

• ballad

• diction

• syntax

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

a reference to another work of literature, person, or event

• anthropomorphism

• catharsis

• analogy

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

the implied or associative meaning of a word; emotional charge

• denotation

• connotation

• archaism

• aside

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

address to an absent or imaginary person

• colloquialism

• black humor

• apostrophe

• conceit

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

an emotional or psychological cleansing that brings relief or renewal

• catharsis

• anecdote

• caricature

• cadence

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

the use of deliberately old-fashioned language

• aside

• archaism

• cacophony

• symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

harsh, jarring, discordant consonant sounds

• cacophony

• cadence

• point of view

• colloquialism

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

any popular narrative poem, often with epic subject and usually in lyric form.

• ballad

• allegory

• selection of detail

• imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

a short narrative

• anecdote

• novel

• elegy

• lyric

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

the attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects

• symbolism

• simile

• anthropomorphism

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4