AP Lit terms

Repetition of two or more forms of a word

Example: “The clash and clang of steel jarred him awake.”

A violent, emotional verbal denunciation

A story, in which characters, things, and events represent qualities or concepts

Repetition of a word or phrase at the close of successive clauses

Tells the story with the pronoun, “I,” and is a character in the story.

Overly scholarly, academic, or bookish (connotation usually negative)

Inversion of word order to mark emphasis

A figure of speech in which words are used to imitate natural sounds

A pause or break in a line of poetry

Example: “We must all hang together or assuredly we will all hang separately.”

Example: “We cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground.”