AP Literature Vocabulary

the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices

• satire

• tragic flaw

• parody

• personification

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

beginning an epic or other narrative by plunging into a crucial situation that is part of a related chain of events

• aphorism

• euphemism

• enjambment

• in media res

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

a word or expression used in lieu of a harsher alternative

• cadence

• motif

• euphemism

• irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

an audience's awareness of the situation in which a work's characters exist differs substantially from that of the characters'

• dramatic irony

• irony

• situational irony

• verbal irony

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

a figure of speech that references a person, place, thing, or event

• aside

• hubris

• allusion

• euphemism

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.L.7.5A

the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or stressed syllables

• alliteration

• parallelism

• synecdoche

• rhapsody

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

a narrator whose credibility is compromised

• narrator

• tragic flaw

• unreliable narrator

• anthropomorphism

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

the main idea or underlying meaning

• motif

• cadence

• theme

• irony

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

a part is made to represent the whole

• connotation

• irony

• metonymy

• synecdoche

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.4

something that represents something else

• symbolism

• motif

• cacophony

• colloquialism

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4