AP Literary Devices

Example: You should be studying your words, reading your books, and making yourself better.

A literary work that holds up human failings to ridicule and censure.

A figure of speech that emphasizes its subject by conscious understatement

The continuation of a sentence from one line or couplet of a poem to the next

A situation characterized by significant difference between what is expected and what happens

The soft ash blowing in loose swirls over the blacktop.

A style in which conjunctions are omitted to produce a faster pace.

"in the middle of things" refers to opening a story in the middle of the action

"You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget."

The sense expressed by the tone of voice or the mood of a piece of writing, author's feeling

The analysis of a verse to show its meter.

The fire the boy carries represents goodness, light, love, and strength.

A recurrent device or situation that serves as a signal for the appearance of a character.

To hear it you will need frontal lobe and things with names like colliculus and temporal gyrus

A short poem describing a country or pastoral scene, praising simplicity