Ap Terms Day 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)

Question 2

Allegory

Answer 2

An 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 a 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 text to explain, cite sources, or give bibliographical data

Question 5

Aphorism

Answer 5

a short, often witty statement of a principle or a truth about life Ex. Early Bird gets the worm

Question 6

Apostrophe

Answer 6

Usually in poetry but sometimes in prose the device of calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, place, or thing