AP Literature Vocabulary Study
These three columns are the basic words with which a student of literature should be familiar—the first column is for studying literature in general, the middle is for studying drama, and the last column is specific to the study of poetry.
For each word listed,
 Write the literary definition of the word
 Develop an original example or quote a famous example for each term
Please use a separate sheet of paper or type your responses.
General Terms
Allegory
Allusion
Archetype the Canon
Connotation
Denotation
Diction
Drama Terms
Aside
Comic relief
Hyperbole/Overstatement
Imagery
Irony—
dramatic
verbal
situational
cosmic
Metaphor
Mood
Dramatic monologue
Soliloquy
Stage direction
Oxymoron
Paradox
Simile
Style
Symbol
Syntax
Theme
Tone
Understatement/Litotes
Poetry Terms
Alliteration
Apostrophe
Assonance
Blank verse
Consonance
Couplet
Didactic
End rhyme
End-stopped line
Fixed form
Iamb
Internal Rhyme
Meter
Octave
Onomatopoeia
Open Form/Free verse
Personification
Quatrain
Rhyme scheme
Run-on line/Enjambment
Scansion
Sestet
Slant rhyme
Speaker
Stanza
Tercet
This is an excellent resource for finding definitions, and it often offers examples too: http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/litgloss/