AP Lit Terms

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Repetition of initial consonants

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Alliteration

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Line of poetry continues to next line

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Enjambment

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Atmosphere in poetry

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Mood

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Statement with contradictory elements

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Paradox

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Saying less than one for effect

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Understatement

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Writer's attitude toward audience or subject

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Tone

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Oxymoron example

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She has an unbiased opinion

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Definition of Personification

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Giving inanimate objects human-like qualities

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Uses of Parallelism

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I do not like them in a boat. I do not like them with a goat.

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Four-line poem

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Quatrain