7270117539 | trope | meaning is altered from the usual or expected | 0 | |
7270122934 | Pun | play on the meaning of words by using the same word in different senses, similar sounding words, or a word with two different meanings | 1 | |
7270126434 | metaphor | implied comparison between 2 unlike things | 2 | |
7270136748 | simile | explicit comparison between 2 unlike things signaled by the use of like or as | 3 | |
7270139300 | personification | attributing human qualities to an inanimate object | 4 | |
7270141081 | hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration for emphasis | 5 | |
7270142926 | litotes | intensifies an idea by understatement | 6 | |
7270144026 | metonymy | word or phrase that is substituted for another with which it is closely associated | 7 | |
7270147156 | oxymoron | 2 contradicting terms or ideas used together | 8 | |
7270149713 | paradox | statement that appears contradictory, but in fact, has a deeper meaning | 9 | |
7270152484 | onomatopoeia | use of words whose sound reinforces their meaning | 10 | |
7270153471 | rhetorical question | questions that do not require an answer | 11 | |
7270154705 | apostrophe | turning away from the audience to address someone new | 12 | |
7270156250 | euphemism | substituting less pungent words in place of harsh ones for an ironic effect | 13 | |
7270160599 | allusion | brief reference to a person, event, or place real of fictitious, or to a work of art | 14 | |
7270163599 | synecdoche | a part is used to represent the whole, the whole for a part, the specific for the general, the general for the specific, or the material for the thing made from it | 15 |
AP Language and Composition Tropes Flashcards
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