Most Used AP English Literary Terms PowerPoint Presentation

This 103-slide PPT presentation covers more than 130 of the most-often-used literary terms found on the Advanced Placement / AP English Language and Composition and AP English Literature and Composition exams.

The presentation is also useful for 8-12 grade non- AP / Advanced Placement courses including honors, gifted and talented, and on-level.

Terms range from allegory and alliteration to understatement and verse.

Each slide provides the term, definition, examples, and an image to help students remember the definition or to help define the term. More than 100 images have been included.

The presentation is dynamic without being gaudy so as to maintain student attention.

It is recommended that this presentation be spread out over several days. A word or two per day would make a good warm up.

Terms include at least:

1. allegory

2. alliteration

3. allusion

4. analogy

5. anaphora

6. annotation

7. antagonist

8. antihero

9. antithesis

10. aphorism

11. apostrophe

12. archetype

13. assonance

14. atmosphere

15. ballad

16. blank verse

17. cacophony

18. euphony

19. caesura

20. characterization

21. climax

22. cliche

23. colloquialism

24. conflict

25. human vs. nature

26. human vs. machine

27. human vs. gods

28. human vs. the supernatural

29. connotation

30. human vs. human

31. human vs. self

32. human vs. society

33. denotation

34. consonance

35. couplets

36. dialect

37. denouement

38. diction

39. elegy

40. end rhyme

41. end-stopped line

42. enjambment

43. epic poem

44. epigraph

45. epithet

46. eulogy

47. euphony

48. explication

49. eye rhyme

50. fable

51. farce

52. figurative language

53. foil

54. meter

55. foot

56. foreshadowing

57. free verse

58. genre

59. hyperbole

60. internal rhyme

61. inversion

62. irony

63. lyric

64. juxtaposition

65. metonymy

66. synecdoche

67. metaphor

68. extended metaphor

69. mixed metaphor

70. monologue

71. mood

72. tone

73. motif

74. myth

75. legend

76. narrative poem

77. near rhyme

78. oblique rhyme

79. half rhyme

80. imperfect rhyme

81. slant rhyme

82. octet

83. sestet

84. ode

85. onomatopoeia

86. oxymoron

87. parable

88. paradox

89. parallel structure

90. parallelism

91. parody

92. pastoral

93. persona

94. personification

95. anthropomorphism

96. zoomorphism

97. plot

98. exposition

99. rising action

100. climax

101. resolution

102. points of view

103. prose poem

104. protagonist

105. quatrain

106. pun

107. antagonist

108. refrain

109. rhetoric

110. rhetorical question

111. rhyme

112. romance

113. sarcasm

114. romantic

115. satire

116. simile

117. soliloquy

118. sonnet

119. shakespearean (aka: elizabethan and english) sonnets

120. petrarchan or italian sonnet

121. spencerian sonnet

122. stanza

123. tercet

124. couplet

125. stereotype

126. stream of consciousness

127. subplot

128. symbolism

129. syntax

130. theme

131. understatement

132. verse