AP Lit Terms

a moment of sudden revelation or insight

• epigram

• epiphany

• elegy

• epic

a fanciful expression in writing or speech; an elaborate metaphor

• eulogy
• conceit
• ode
• ballad

The continuous flow of a person's thoughts and reactions to events as they unfold is called

• enjambment

• stream of consciousness

• narrative

• monologue

In which POV does the narrator know or reveal nothing about the characters' internal thoughts, feelings, and motivations, sticking to the external facts of the story?

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person Objective

• Third Person Limited

What is the definition of PERSONIFICATION?

• Giving an inanimate object human like qualities or form
• A figure of speech that compares unlike objects
• A figurative comparison using the words "like" or "as"
• The repetition of one or more initial consonant in a group of words or lines of poetry or prose. writers use this for ornament or for emphasis

compare 2 unlike objects without "like" or "as"

• metaphor
• simile
• allusion
• personification

A turning point that occurs at the end of an octave and marks the change of feelings between the octave and sestet.

• Dramatic Irony

• Allusion

• Anaphora

• Volta

the arrangement of words and phrases to create sentences in a language.

• epistrophe
• syntax
• anaphora
• poetry

An idea or feeling invoked by a word, in addition to its literal meaning.

• Denotation

• Connotation

• Notation

• Refrain

• verbal irony
• situational irony
• dramatic irony
• none of the above