AP Lit Terms

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Repetition at close intervals of initial consonant words

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Alliteration

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Describes a line of poetry in which the sense and grammatical construction continues on to the next line

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Enjambment

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The atmosphere suggested by the structure and style of the poem

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Mood

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Statement or situation containing seemingly contradictory elements

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Paradox

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Saying less than one means, for effect

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Understatement

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Writer's attitude toward the audience or subject, implied or related directly

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Tone

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Which of the following uses an "oxymoron"? Options: This statement is false., I must be cruel to be kind., She has an unbiased opinion about the situation., I am nobody.

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She has an unbiased opinion about the situation.

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What is the definition of PERSONIFICATION?

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Giving an inanimate object human like qualities or form

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Which one of these uses PARALLELISM? Options: The white kite was in flight at night., I do not like them in a boat. I do not like them with a goat., Mammals named Sam are clammy., Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

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

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What is a four-line poem or a four-line unit of a longer poem referred to as?

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Quatrain