AP Multiple Choice often ask you to know the following:

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AP Multiple Choice often ask you to know the
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AP IV Terms

• Antithesis
• Aphorism
• Apostrophe
• Archetype
• Aside
• Assonance
• Attitude
• aubade

• allegory
• Alliteration
• Allusion
• Ambiguity
• Anachronism
• Analogy
• Anapest
• Anecdote
• Antagonist
• Antecedent
• Anticlimax
• antihero

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• Ballad
• Blank verse
• Cacophony
• Carpe diem
• Catharsis
• Chiasmus
• climax
• Colloquial
• Comic relief
• Conceit
• Connotation
• Consonance
• couplet

• Dactyl
• Denotation
• Denouement
• Deus ex machina
• dialogue
• Diction
• Didactic
• elegy
• Enjambment
• epic
• Epigram
• Epigraph
• Epiphany
• Epistolary novel
• ethos
• exposition
• euphemism

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• Euphony
• Farce
• Figurative language
• First person
• Flashback
• Flat character
• Foil
• Foreshadowing
• Free verse
• Genre
• Heroic couplet

• Hubris
• Hyperbole
• Iambic pentameter
• Imagery
• In media res
• Interior monologue
• Internal rhyme
• Inversion
• irony
• Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet
• juxtaposition
• Litotes
• logos
• Lyric poem

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• Parody
• Pastoral
• Pathos
• Periodic sentence
• Personification
• Point of view
• Protagonist
• Pun
• Quatrain
• Refrain
• Repetition
• resolution
• Rhetorical question
• rhyme
• satire

• Metaphor
• Meter
• Metonymy
• monologue
• Myth
• Narrative poem
• Near /Slant rhyme
• omniscient
• Onomatopoeia
• Oxymoron
• Parable
• Paradox
• parody
• parallelism

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• Sestet
• Shift
• Simile
• Soliloquy
• English (Shakespearean) sonnet
• Stanza
• Stock character
• Stream of consciousness
• Style
• Symbol

• Synecdoche
• Syntax
• Theme
• Tone
• Tragic flaw
• Segue / transition