Literary Devices

The highlighted terms below are ones you must know for AP literature. The others are important but either are rhetorical terms seen in AP Languague or they rather obscure. You must know them all for the exam and for AP Literature. We will review these in class and you will be responsible for them on all exams and assignments. Study!

See also these resources:

  1. AP Lit Literary Terms from Mr. Chilton: Click here

  2. Exhaustive List of AP Literary Terms: Click here

  3. Poetry Terms: List 1 or List 2 or List 3

  4. Literary Terms, free PDF of exhaustive book. There is not a literary term that exists that is not clearly defined in this book. Period. Click here

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