AP Lit Terms

Allegory

Alliteration

Allusion

Ambiguity

Anachronism

Analogy

Analysis

Anaphora

Anecdote

Antagonist

Antithesis

Aphorism

Apologia

Apostrophe

Argument

Assumption

Audience

Characterization

Chiasmus

Circumlocution

Classicism

Cliche

Climax

Colloquialism

Comedy

Conflict

Connotation

Contrast

Denotation

Denouement

Dialect

Dialectics

Dichotomy

Diction

Didactic

Dogmatic

Elegy

Epic

Epigram

Epitaph

Epithet

Euphemism

Evocative

Exposition

Expressionism

Fable

Fallacy

Falling Action

Farce

Figurative Language

Flashback

Foil

Folk Tale

Foreshadowing

Free Verse

Genre

Gothic Tale

Hyperbole

Imagery

Implication

Incongruity

Inference

Irony

Inversion

Juxtaposition

Lyric

Magical Realism

Metaphor

Metonymy

Mode of Discourse

Modernism

Monologue

Mood

Motif

Myth

Narrative

Narrator

Naturalism

Novelette

Omniscient Point of View

Onomatopoeia

Oxymoron

Pacing

Parable

Paradox

Parallelism

Parody

Pathos

Pedantry

Personification

Plot

Poignant

Point of View

Postmodernism

Prose

Protagonist

Pun

Purpose

Realism

Refrain

Requiem

Resolution

Restatement

Rhetoric

Rhetorical Question

Romanticism

Satire

Scansion

Setting

Simile

Soliloquy

Spiritual

Speaker

Stereotype

Stream of Consciousness

Structure

Style

Subordination

Surrealism

Suspension of Disbelief

Symbol

Synesthesia

Synecdoche

Syntax

Theme

Thesis

Tone

Tongue in Cheek

Tragedy

Understatement

Vernacular

Voice

Zeitgeist