AP Literature Terms

Question 1

Abject

Answer 1

expierence or or present to the maximum degree of something bad

failure

Question 2

Admonition

Answer 2

authoritative counsel or warning.

Question 3

Adversity

Answer 3

difficulties; misfortune.

Question 3

Advocacy

Answer 3

public support for or recommendation of a particular cause or policy.

Question 4

Alienation

Answer 4

loss or lack of sympathy

Question 5

Altered

Answer 5

change or cause to change in character or composition

Question 6

Altruism

Answer 6

the belief in or practice of disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others.

Question 7

Ambiguity

Answer 7

the quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness.

Question 8

Ambivalence

Answer 8

the state of having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone.

Question 8

Amorous

Answer 8

showing, feeling, or relating to sexual desire.

Question 9

Amorphous

Answer 9

without a clearly defined shape or form.

Question 9

Analogous

Answer 9

comparable in certain respects, typically in a way which makes clearer the nature of the things compared.

Question 10

Animistic

Answer 10

the belief that natural objects, natural phenomena, and the universe itself have souls

Question 10

Annihilation

Answer 10

complete destruction or obliteration.

Question 10

Antiromantic

Answer 10

not presenting love and relationships in a romantic way, often showing life as it really is

Question 11

Apologetic

Answer 11

defense of the faith

Question 11

Arbiter

Answer 11

a person who settles a dispute or has ultimate authority in a matter.

Question 12

Ardor

Answer 12

enthusiasm or passion.

Question 13

Arrogant

Answer 13

having or revealing an exaggerated sense of one’s own importance or abilities.

Question 14

Artificiality

Answer 14

the quality of being made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally.

Question 15

Apostrophe

Answer 15

involves a speaker addressing someone or something that is not present or cannot respond

Question 16

Caricature

Answer 16

a picture, description, or imitation of a person in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect.

Question 17

conceit, controlling image

Answer 17

a literary device employing repetition so as to stress the theme of a work or a particular symbol.

Question 18

couplet

Answer 18

two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.

Question 19

diction, syntax

Answer 19

diction deals with the choice of words, syntax deals with the arrangement and organization of words.

Question 20

dramatic irony

Answer 20

when the audience knows something that the characters don’t.

Question 21

Literary elements

Answer 21

essential components that build a story, such as plot, narrator, point of view, and setting.

Question 22

enjambment

Answer 22

(in verse) the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.

Question 23

foreshadowing

Answer 23

be a warning or indication of (a future event).

Question 24

hyperbole

Answer 24

using exaggeration or overstatement to create emphasis or effect

Question 25

irony

Answer 25

the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.