AP English Language and Composition Terms

To draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented.

• Imagery

• Inference

• Irony

• Litotes

The contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant.

• Imagery

• Inference

• Irony

• Litotes

When events turn out the opposite of what was expected; when what the characters and reader's think should happen, but does not happen.

• Irony

• Dramatic Irony

• Situational Irony

• Verbal Irony

A comparison between two things.

• Metaphor

• Mood

• Onomatopoeia

• Oxymoron

A figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by providing them with human attributes.

• Paradox

• Personification

• Point of View

• Repetition

The perspective from which a story is told.

• Paradox

• Personification

• Point of View

• Repetition

The duplication of of any element of language.

• Paradox

• Personification

• Point of View

• Repetition

The narrator is within the story.

• First Person Narrator

• Third Person Narrator

• Third Person Omniscient

• Third Person Limited

The narrator is not within the story.

• First Person Narrator

• Third Person Narrator

• Third Person Omniscient

• Third Person Limited

The narrator is not within the story and presents the thoughts, emotions, and actions of any or all characters.

• First Person Narrator

• Third Person Narrator

• Third Person Omniscient

• Third Person Limited