AP Lit Vocab quiz

a story in which people, things, and actions represent an idea about life; allegories often have a strong lesson.

• epic

• allegory

• allusion

• caesura

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

a literary song or poem that expresses sorrow or lamentation, usually for one who has died.

• elegy

• ballad

• fable

• blank verse

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.12

a form of language that is spoken in a particular place or by a particular group of people.

• humor

• figurative language

• dialect

• genre

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

poetry without regular patterns of rhyme and rhythm. Often used to capture the sounds and rhythms of ordinary speech.

• irony

• blank verse

• flashback

• free verse

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.11-12.11

a short humorous poem composed of five lines that usually has the rhyme scheme, aabba

• limerick

• meter

• ode

• legend

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

a speech delivered by a character who is alone on the stage.

• speaker

• soliloquy

• monologue

• memoir

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.8.6

a literary technique in which ideas or customs are ridiculed for the purpose of improving society.

• prose

• satire

• sarcasm

• understatement

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

a technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for effect or emphasis.

• lyric

• repetition

• onomatopoeia

• point of view

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.2.4

a short poem or verse written in memory of someone.

• synecdoche

• epitaph

• epic

• stanza

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

a humorously exaggerated story about impossible events

• legend

• speaker

• tall tale

• soliloquy

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6