1. AP Literary Devices and Terms
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Hint: An oxymoron isn’t Savona 

2. ALLEGORY
DEFINITION:
story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities.
EXAMPLES:
Animal Farm; Dante’s Inferno; Lord of the Flies

3. Examples of Allegories…

4. ALLITERATION DEFINITION:
repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together.
EXAMPLE:
Black Eyed Peas – Boom Boom Pow
Alphabetical Slaughter- Papoose

6. ALLUSION
DEFINITION:
reference to someone or something that is known from history, literature, religion, politics, sports, science, or another branch of culture. An indirect reference to something (usually from literature, etc.)

7. How many band names can you recognize?

8. ANAPHORA
DEFINITION:
Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row. This is a deliberate form of repetition and helps make the writer’s point more coherent.

9. Martin Luther King Jr. “I Have A Dream”

10. ANASTROPHE DEFINITION:
Inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence. Purpose is rhythm or emphasis or euphony. It is a fancy word for inversion
Comes from the Greek word meaning "to turn upside-down“
AKA “Yoda syntax” or Yogi Berra quotes
EXAMPLE:
“I have good relations with the wookies”
ANASTROPHE: “Good relations with the Wookies, I have.”

11. Yoda Anastrophe

13. ANTECEDENT DEFINITION:
A word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. The AP language exam occasionally asks for the antecedent of a given pronoun in a long, complex sentence or in a group of sentences.
EXAMPLE:
The dirty dishes continued to pile up. It caused lots of problems between the roommates, and they eventually got into a .
The antecedent of “it” is...?
Answer: “dirty dishes”

14. ANTIHERO
DEFINITION:
Central character who lacks all the qualities traditionally associated with heroes. May lack courage, grace, intelligence, or moral scruples.
EXAMPLES:
Jay Gatsby, Victor Frankenstein, Severus Snape, House, etc.

17. ANTHROPOMORPHISM
attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object (Personification)

18. APHORISM
DEFINITION:
A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life, or of a principle or accepted general truth. Also called maxim, epigram, proverb.
AKA --- fortune cookies
EXAMPLES:
Ben Franklin
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
An apple a day, keeps the doctor away.
Alfred Tennyson
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

19. APOSTROPHE DEFINITION:
A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified idea such as liberty or love.
It is an address to someone or something that cannot answer.
EXAMPLE:
Yelling at the TV while watching a game