AP Lit Terms

Front

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

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Quatrain

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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Statement or situation containing seemingly contradictory elements

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Paradox

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Front

The narrator describes the internal thoughts, feelings, and motivations of one character, usually the main character in this POV.

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Third Person Limited

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Front

Visually descriptive or figurative language in a literary work.

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Imagery

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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Saying less than one means, for effect

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Understatement

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Front

A humorous five-line poem with a specific rhythm and rhyme scheme (AABBA).

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Limerick

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CCSS.RL.11-12.13

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Front

A figure of speech that combines contradictory terms, such as 'deafening silence'.

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Oxymoron

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A

Front

A literary device that involves the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences.

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Anaphora

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CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Front

A comparison between two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'.

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Simile

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

Front

A narrative perspective where the narrator knows all the thoughts and feelings of every character.

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Third Person Omniscient

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6