AP Lit Sem 1 Exam

giving human traits to non-living things

• personification
• metaphor
• simile
• anaphora

extreme exaggeration

• litotes
• metonymy
• hyperbole
• understatement

the attitude of the speaker toward the subjects of the poem

• symbol
• tone
• anachronism
• euphony

repetition of vowel sounds in non rhyming words

• alliteration
• assonance
• euphony
• euphemism

compare 2 unlike objects using "like" or "as"

• metaphor
• simile
• hyperbole
• contrast

the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect

• litotes
• juxtaposition
• hyperbole
• alliteration

a reference to something famous

• allusion
• hyperbole
• illusion
• hyperbola

use of words to mean something different from what a person actually says

• situational irony
• static irony
• verbal irony
• dramatic irony

a discrepancy between what is expected to happen and what actually happens

• situational irony
• static irony
• verbal irony
• dramatic irony

a "paragraph" in poetry

• verse
• stanza
• chorus
• prose