AP Literature Review

What is the type of poetry that tells a story (usually folklore) and contains a refrain?

A play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have very different meanings.

What literary device refers to when the story begins at the middle or end instead of the start?

What literary device refers to a universal pattern in literature?

What is a situation or action that appears to be contradictory but it turns out to be true?

What device refers to the author's attitude towards his or her subject?

What is the figure of speech that uses exaggeration for emphasis or effect?

What term refers to specific word choice?

What literary device refers to images, words, or ideas that recur in a story?

What device consists of the physical, social, and cultural contexts described in a story?

What refers to an extended metaphor of a rather strange or odd comparison?

What is the meter for a poem that has six feet per line?

What literary device refers to word order and sentence structure?

What literary device refers to a secondary character who contrasts with a major character?

What literary device refers to the values and shades of meaning that a word acquires over time?

What is the figure of speech in which someone (who may be absent) is directly addressed?

What literary device refers to an image that always refers to the same thing?

What is a poetic line with a pause at the end?

What literary device refers to a character whose personality/motives are fully delineated? 

What literary device refers to a flashback that takes the narrative back in time? 

A kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics.

What literary device refers to the way words in prose fiction are arranged?

What literary device refers to a character who serves a function in the story?

What literary device refers to a sudden and overwhelming insight or recognition of a truth?

Tetrameter refers to how many feet per line?

What term refers to a less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept?

What describes a poem with unrhymed iambic pentameter?

What is characterized by subbing a term naming an object for one closely associated with it?

What is the type of poem that contains fourteen lines of iambic pentameter?

What is the repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds at the beginning of words?

What literary device refers to a flashforward in storytelling?

What refers to a situation or phrasing that performs something contrary to expectation?

What literary device refers to the defect in the protagonist that causes his downfall?

What literary device refers to the literal meaning of a word instead of associations? 

A sustained and formal poem revealing thoughts about death.

What is the word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun?

This is when the audience knows something one or more of the characters do not.

What literary device refers to a literary character who remains unchanged throughout a work?

Which type of poetry is not written in a traditional meter but is still rhythmical?

What is a reference in a work of literature to something well-known outside the work?

What must you accomplish in essay questions 1 & 2?

What device refers to similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words or phrases?

What device refers to the emotional feeling that a work of literature produces?

What is the continuation of the sense and grammatical construction from one line to the next?

What is a similarity or comparison between 2 different things or the relationship between them?