3556970421 | Alliteration | repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words placed near each other | 0 | |
3556976734 | Assonance | repeated vowel sounds in words placed near each other | 1 | |
3556989136 | Consonance | repeated consonant sounds at the ending of words placed near each other | 2 | |
3556990624 | Cacophony | a discordant series of harsh, unpleasant sounds help to convey disorder | 3 | |
3556994060 | Onomatopoeia | words that sound like their meanings | 4 | |
3556996311 | Allusion | a brief reference to some person, historical event, work of art, or Biblical or mythological situation or character | 5 | |
3557007201 | Analogy | a comparison, usually something unfamiliar with something familiar | 6 | |
3557008871 | Apostrophe | speaking directly to a real or imagined listener or inanimate object; addressing that person or thing by name | 7 | |
3557017700 | Connotation | the emotional, psychological or social overtones of a word | 8 | |
3557020102 | Denotation | the dictionary definition or a word | 9 | |
3557023633 | Irony | a contradictory statement or situation to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true | 10 | |
3557025795 | Metaphor | a direct comparison between two unlike things | 11 | |
3557040003 | Oxymoron | a combination of two words that appear to contradict each other | 12 | |
3557045108 | Paradox | a statement in which seeming contradiction may reveal an unexpected truth | 13 | |
3557049165 | Personification | Attributing human characters to an inanimate object, animal, or abstract idea | 14 | |
3557056458 | Pun | Word play in which words with totally different meanings have similar or identical sounds | 15 | |
3557058766 | Simile | a direct comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as" | 16 | |
3557063333 | Symbol | an ordinary object, event, animal, or person to which we attacked extraordinary meaning and significance | 17 | |
3557068540 | Synecdoche | indicating a person, object, etc. by letting only a certain part represent the whole | 18 | |
3557075617 | Hyperbole | an outrageous exaggeration used for effect | 19 |
AP Literature Poetic Devices Flashcards
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