AP Terms 1

Question 1

Abstract

Answer 1

refers to language that describes concepts rather than concrete images (ideas and qualities rather than observable or specific things, people or places) concrete language is observable or “physical”

Question 2

Allegory

Answer 2

extended narrative in prose or verse in which characters, events, and settings represent abstract qualities and in which the writer intends a second meaning to be read beneath the surface of the story; the underlying meaning may be moral, religious, political, social, or satiric

Question 3

Anecdote

Answer 3

a short, simple narrative of an incident; often used for humorous effect or to make a point

Question 4

Annotation

Answer 4

explanatory notes added to a text to explain, cite sources, or give bibliographical data

Question 5

Antithesis

Answer 5

the presentation of two contrasting images. The ideas are balanced by word, phrase, clause, or paragraphs

Question 6

Aphorism

Answer 6

a short, often witty statement of a principle or a truth about life: “Early bird gets the worm”

Question 7

Apostrophe

Answer 7

usually in poetry but sometimes in prose; the device of calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person or to a place, thing, or personified abstraction