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Sure! Here's a solid list of **AP English Literature vocabulary**—terms that often come up in class, essays, and the AP exam. I'll break it down into categories to make it easier to study. --- ### 📚 **Literary Devices & Techniques** 1. **Alliteration** – Repetition of initial consonant sounds 2. **Allusion** – A reference to another text, event, or figure 3. **Anaphora** – Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses 4. **Antithesis** – Contrast of ideas in a balanced or parallel construction 5. **Apostrophe** – Addressing someone absent, dead, or nonhuman as if present and able to respond 6. **Assonance** – Repetition of vowel sounds within nearby words 7. **Asyndeton** – Omission of conjunctions between parts of a sentence 8. **Consonance** – Repetition of consonant sounds, often at the end of words 9. **Diction** – Word choice (formal, informal, colloquial, etc.) 10. **Enjambment** – Continuation of a sentence without pause beyond the end of a line in poetry --- ### 🧠 **Figurative Language** 1. **Hyperbole** – Extreme exaggeration 2. **Imagery** – Descriptive language that appeals to the senses 3. **Irony** - *Verbal*: Saying the opposite of what’s meant - *Situational*: When the outcome is the opposite of what's expected - *Dramatic*: Audience knows something characters don’t 4. **Metaphor** – A direct comparison without using "like" or "as" 5. **Metonymy** – Substituting the name of one thing with something closely related (e.g. "The crown" for royalty) 6. **Synecdoche** – A part representing the whole (e.g. "All hands on deck") 7. **Personification** – Giving human traits to nonhuman things 8. **Simile** – A comparison using "like" or "as" 9. **Symbol** – An object, character, or color that represents something beyond itself --- ### ✍️ **Poetic & Rhetorical Terms** 1. **Caesura** – A pause in a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation 2. **Couplet** – Two lines of poetry that usually rhyme 3. **Iambic Pentameter** – A line with five iambs (unstressed-stressed syllables) 4. **Blank Verse** – Unrhymed iambic pentameter 5. **Free Verse** – Poetry with no fixed meter or rhyme 6. **Elegy** – A mournful poem, often for the dead 7. **Ode** – A lyric poem expressing emotion, often in honor of something 8. **Sonnet** – A 14-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme (Shakespearean or Petrarchan) --- ### 📖 **Narrative & Structure Terms** 1. **Tone** – The author's attitude toward the subject 2. **Mood** – The feeling or atmosphere the reader experiences 3. **Theme** – The central idea or message in a work 4. **Motif** – A recurring element that has symbolic significance 5. **Foil** – A character who contrasts with another character to highlight traits 6. **Foreshadowing** – Clues or hints about what will happen later 7. **Juxtaposition** – Placing two elements side by side to present a contrast 8. **Point of View** – Perspective from which the story is told (1st, 2nd, 3rd person) 9. **Stream of Consciousness** – Narrative style that mimics thoughts and feelings 10. **Frame Narrative** – A story within a story --- Want me to make flashcards, a quiz, or a PDF study guide with these? Or need help using them in a literary analysis essay?

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Chore a household task, such as washing dishes; often assigned to children by their parents livestock farm animals rasp to make a rough, grating sound hope a wish for something to happen the way you want it to lard soft fat from a pig that is used for cooking neigh a soft, low sound made by a horse ribs the bones that protect your heart and lungs wheat the grain from grass that is used to make bread point of view the perspective from which a story is told first, second, third person the type of perspective (1st - I, me; 2nd - you; 3rd - he, she, they) narrator the person telling a story hurricane a large, powerful storm that starts over the ocean and brings in heavy rain and high winds to the land last resort a final chance to go for help levee a long wall built along a river to stop flooding; can be made of soil, rocks or concrete shelter a place where people can get food and a place to sleep when a storm threatens their home frond a large, long leaf Chinatown a part of a city that was historically home to Chinese immigrants conflict a serious disagreement society people living together in a community chaos a state of complete confusion; actions and events are out of control deport to force someone to leave a country because the person is not a citizen mass a large number of people resident someone who lives in a place status the position of a person according to the law informative a text that gives facts about something opinion a view of something based on feelings, not facts chart a visual that gives information about a topic aloft in the air plains a large area of flat land without trees researcher a person who gathers facts about a topic scale a range of numbers used as a system to measure or compare things twister another name for a tornado; a storm in which wind forms a tube that moves along the ground at high speeds and often causes damage

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