Baron’s AP Literature and Composition Vocabulary AK

1. Abstract: An abbreviated synopsis of a longer work of scholarship or research.
2. Active Voice: A verb is in the Active Voice when it expresses an action performed by its subject
3. Adage: A saying or proverb containing a truth based on experience and often couched in metaphorical language.
4. Allegory: A story in which the narrative or characters carry an underlying symbolic, metaphorical, or possibly and ethical meaning
5. Alliteration: A repetition of one or more intial
6. Allusion:
7. Ambiguity:
8. Anachronism:
9. Analogy:
10. Annotation:
11. Antagonist:
12. Antithesis:
13. Aphorism:
14. Apollonian:
15. Apostrophe:
16. Archetype:
17. Assonance:
18. Ballad:
19. Bard:
20. Bathos:
21. Bibliography:
22. Bildungsroman:
23. Bombast:
24. Burlesque:
25. Cacophony:
26. Caesura:
27. Canon:
28. Caricature:
29. Carpe Diem:
30. Catharsis:
31. Classic
32. Classical,Classicism
33. Climax
34. Coming-of-age story/novel
35. Conceit
36. Connotation
37. Consonance
38. Couplet