AP English Literary Terms 2

Question 1

Which literary device involves giving human qualities to non-human things?

Accepted Answer

Personification

Answer

Metaphor

Answer

Hyperbole

Answer

Alliteration

Question 2

What is the term for a recurring symbol or motif throughout a literary work?

Accepted Answer

Leitmotif

Answer

Allegory

Answer

Allusion

Answer

Anaphora

Question 3

Which rhetorical device uses three parallel elements for emphasis?

Accepted Answer

Tricolon

Answer

Anaphora

Answer

Epistrophe

Answer

Chiasmus

Question 4

What literary term describes a seemingly contradictory statement that reveals a deeper truth?

Accepted Answer

Paradox

Answer

Oxymoron

Answer

Irony

Answer

Satire

Question 5

Which poetic device involves the continuation of a sentence beyond the end of a line?

Accepted Answer

Enjambment

Answer

Caesura

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End-stop

Answer

Stanza break

Question 6

What is the narrative technique where the story is told from the perspective of an untrustworthy narrator?

Accepted Answer

Unreliable narrator

Answer

Stream of consciousness

Answer

Free indirect discourse

Answer

Third-person omniscient