8390045465 | palindrome *ex:* race car, level, aziza, taco cat | a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward | 0 | |
8390054330 | mnemonic *ex:* "I before e except after c"; SLAPEGG - 7 deadly sins; Principle/Principal - one is your pal | a technique of improving the memory | 1 | |
8390057776 | Homograph *ex:* agape: love / agape: open; bass: fish / bass: sound | a word of the same written form as another but of different meaning and usually origin, whether pronounced the same way or not | 2 | |
8390063010 | Homonym *ex:* bear: animal / bear: carry; bat: animal / bat: stick | a word the same as another in sound and spelling but different in meaning | 3 | |
8390067154 | Homophone *ex:* great / grate; ceiling / sealing; meet / meat | a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning, whether spelled the same way or not / specific type of homonym | 4 | |
8390079050 | Heteronyms *ex:* wound (oo sound) / wound (ow sound) ; dove (bird) / dove (swimming) | are homonyms that share the same spelling but have different pronunciations. Homographs that are not homophones | 5 | |
8390084402 | Capitonyms *ex:* Turkey / turkey; March / march; Polish / polish | are homonyms that share the same spelling but have different meanings when capitalized (and may or may not have different pronunciations) | 6 | |
8390089517 | anaphora *ex:* MLK Jr.'s "I have a Dream" speech; "Jingle Bells" | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines | 7 | |
8390093649 | antistrophe *ex:* "Yellow Submarine" song; "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe | repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses | 8 | |
8390099242 | epithet *ex:* "Richard the Lionhearted"; "Catherine the Great" | an adjective or adjective phrase appropriately qualifying a subject (noun) by naming a key or important characteristic of the subject | 9 |
AP Literature Vocabulary #13 Literary Terms Flashcards
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