AP Lit Terms Review
Across
- 2. A quiet echo that grows louder with repetition
- 3. The skeleton holding language upright
- 8. What the room feels like, even when nothing is happening
- 10. The writer’s attitude behind the words
- 12. A lie told so well it reveals the truth
- 15. When words whisper the same opening sound
- 16. A truth that wears contradiction as a disguise
- 17. Twins that are complete opposites placed side by side
- 19. (Volta) The instant a poem shifts its footing
- 20. The fingerprint of word choice
Down
- 1. When the lifeless borrows a pulse
- 4. A drumbeat at the beginning, again and again
- 5. A sentence that continues onto the next line without stopping
- 6. structure A tight box where arguments bloom and pivot before escape
- 7. Putting two very different things next to each other for effect
- 9. structure A poet haunted by their own lines, unable to let them go
- 11. Language that glides instead of grates
- 13. irony The audience sits in on a secret the characters can’t hear
- 14. pentameter A poem's pulse you don’t notice until it stops
- 18. irony The universe delivering the punchline you didn’t expect