AP Lit Poetry Terms

Comparison between two things that use helping verbs "like" "as" "than" or "resembles"

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• conceit

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

A comparison between two things that does NOT use any helping verbs

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• conceit

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

an extended metaphor with complex logic or a startling comparison - takes places over an entire passage or poem

• simile

• personification

• conceit

• apostrophe

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

a special kind of metaphor that gives human attributes to a nonhuman object, such as an animal, object, or concept

• personfication

• simile

• conceit

• apostrophe

Tags

CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

Occurs when a poem's speaker addresses someone absent, someone dead, or something nonhuman as if it were present and could respond

• apostrophe

• conceit

• paradox

• metonomy

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The use of the part for the whole

• Synecdoche

• Metonymy

• Personiciation

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The use of something closely related for the thing actually meant ie using blood for "life"

• metonymy

• synedoche

• personification

• paradox

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

a contradiction that is nevertheless true

• paradox

• synecdoche

• metonymy

• conceit

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

an overstatement or extravagant exaggeration, so far exaggerated that it cannot be taken literally

• hyperbole

• irony

• understatement

• conceit

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

bitter or cutting speech, said with the intention to hurt

• sarcasm

• satire

• verbal irony

• situational irony

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6