14724206225 | Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity | 0 | |
14724206226 | Allegory | a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. | 1 | |
14724206227 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | 2 | |
14724206228 | Ambiguity | An event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way. | 3 | |
14724206229 | anachronism | something out of place in time | 4 | |
14724206230 | Analogy | A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way | 5 | |
14724206231 | Anaphora | the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences | 6 | |
14724206232 | Antithesis | the direct opposite, a sharp contrast | 7 | |
14724206233 | Apostrophe | a figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person, or some abstraction | 8 | |
14724206234 | Appeals | ethos, logos, pathos | 9 | |
14724206235 | Aside | a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage | 10 | |
14724206236 | Asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 11 | |
14724206237 | blank verse | Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter | 12 | |
14724206238 | cacophony | A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds | 13 | |
14724206239 | Caesura | a strong pause within a line of verse | 14 | |
14724206240 | Catharsis | the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions. | 15 | |
14724206241 | claim | assert or affirm strongly | 16 | |
14724206242 | colloquial | Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing | 17 | |
14724206243 | Comedy | light and humorous drama with a happy ending | 18 | |
14724206244 | Conceit | A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects. | 19 | |
14724206245 | Consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity. | 20 |
AP English Language Terms Flashcards
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