AP Literary Terms II

Question 1

Repetition of beginning consonant sounds

Answer 1

Alliteration

Question 2

Short statement expressing a truth

Answer 2

Aphorism

Question 3

Extended metaphor

Answer 3

Conceit

Question 4

Explains the outcome of the conflict

Answer 4

Resolution

Question 5

Written or spoken expression

Answer 5

Discourse

Question 6

Sad, mournful poem

Answer 6

Elegy

Question 7

Short, witty saying

Answer 7

Epigram

Question 8

Quote or motto at the beginning of a work

Answer 8

Epigraph

Question 9

Descriptive phrase substituted for a thing/person; can be pejorative

Answer 9

Epithet

Question 10

Lesson with animals

Answer 10

Fable

Question 11

Type of writing/art that relates impressions of the author rather than reality

Answer 11

Impressionism

Question 12

Contrast between appearance and reality

Answer 12

Irony

Question 13

Object substituted for meaning of related concept

Answer 13

Metonymy

Question 14

Words whose sounds relay their meaning

Answer 14

Onomatopoeia

Question 15

Ability to call forth feeing of pity, compassion

Answer 15

Pathos

Question 16

figure of speech in which part is substituted for the whole

Answer 16

Synecdoche

Question 17

Informal conversation of a region

Answer 17

Colloquialism

Question 18

A technique of denying the opposite of what you mean to say

Answer 18

Litote

Question 19

Main clauses put at the end of a sentence for emphasis

Answer 19

Periodic construction

Question 20

Use of a verb to suggest two totally different meanings

Answer 20

Syllepsis