WorksheetsAP Literary Terms
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 13mins
Story or poem where characters, setting and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas
Allegory
Suspense
Rhetoric
Anastrophe
Repetition of the same or similar constant or sounds in words that are close together.
Repetition
Anaphora
Alliteration
Antimetabole
An reference to someone or something that is known from history, an indirect reference to something
(a)
suggest two or more different and sometimes conflicting meanings
Anecdote
Analogy
inversion
Ambiguty
Comparison made between two things to show similarity.
(a)
Repetition or Words or Phrases at the begging of two or more sentences in a row.
(a)
Inversion of the usual, normal order of the parts in a sentence.
Paradox
Antithesis
Anastrophe
Vernacular
Brief story told to illustrate a point
Analogy
Anecdote
Short Story
Connotation
Character who struggles against or blocks the hero in a story
(a)
Repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order
"One should eat to live, not eat to live "
Antimetabole
Repetition
Alliteration
Analogy
Balance of words, phrases or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure
Farce
Colloquialism
Cliche
Antithesis
Central Character who lacks all the traditional qualities with hero's
(a)
Attributing characteristics of an human as a animal or inanimate object
Personification
Anthropomorphism
Characterization
Comedy
brief statement that makes a wise observation about life or a general truth
Epigram
Aphorism
Quote
Direct Characterization
calling out to an imaginary, dead or absent person or to a personified abstract idea.
Schizophrenia
Apostrophe
Balance
conflict
Placing in immediately succeeding order of two or more coordinate elements, the latter of which is a explanation, qualification or modification
Anti-hero
Assonance
Asyndeton
Appositon
The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds.
aliteration
repetition
Assonance
simile
Commas used without conjunction to separate a series of words, emphasizing the parts equally.
(a)
Constructing a sentence so that both halves are about the same length and importance. Sentences can be unbalanced to serve a special effect as well
Balance
Level Writing
Contraction
Conceit
A type of rhetorical balance in which the second part is syntactically balance against the first, but with the parts reversed.
Chiasmus
Cliche
Comedy
Literation
A word phrase, often a figure or speech that has become lifeless because of overuse.
(a)
A word phrase in everyday use in conversations and informal writing but is inappropriate for formal situations.
Analogy
Couplet
Comedy
Colloquialism
in a general story that ends with a happy resolution of the conflicts faced by the main characters
(a)
