AP Literature Vocabulary

repetition of initial consonant sounds

• alliteration

• ballad

• diction

• syntax

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

• anthropomorphism

• catharsis

• analogy

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

the implied or associative meaning of a word; emotional charge

• denotation

• connotation

• archaism

• aside

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

address to an absent or imaginary person

• colloquialism

• black humor

• apostrophe

• conceit

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

an emotional or psychological cleansing that brings relief or renewal

• catharsis

• anecdote

• caricature

• cadence

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

the use of deliberately old-fashioned language

• aside

• archaism

• cacophony

• symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

harsh, jarring, discordant consonant sounds

• cacophony

• cadence

• point of view

• colloquialism

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

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

• ballad

• allegory

• selection of detail

• imagery

a short narrative

• anecdote

• novel

• elegy

• lyric

the attribution of human characteristics to animals or inanimate objects

• symbolism

• simile

• anthropomorphism

• metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.4