AP Literature Words Flashcards
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| 5329584322 | anaphora | repetition of words at the beginning of each line: "Mad world! Mad kings! Mad Composition!" | 0 | |
| 5329599823 | chiasmus | sentence of two parallel parts in which the 2nd is structurally reversed: "What trade thou knave, thou knaughty knave, what trade" | 1 | |
| 5329613372 | litotes | type of understatement in which an idea is expressed by negating the opposite: "You did love him once, not without cause" | 2 | |
| 5329623451 | polysyndeton | using more conjunctions than is necessary: "and a courteous, and a kind, and a handsome" | 3 | |
| 5329632506 | synecdoche | using one part of an object to represent the whole: "Woe to the hand that shed costly blood" | 4 | |
| 5329639786 | asyndeton | a construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions: "He received applause, prizes, many, fame" | 5 | |
| 5329647793 | aphorism | a concise statement that expresses succinctly a general truth or idea, often using rhyme or balance: "In time we hate that which we often fear" | 6 | |
| 5329661746 | conceit | a fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate rought winds do shake the darling buds of May And summer's lease hath all too short a date" | 7 | |
| 5329673290 | ellipsis | the omission of a word or phrase which is grammatically necessary but can be deduced from the context: "My dreams had no end that night; my delight had no limit" | 8 | |
| 5329682383 | metonymy | substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it: "She had a love for the stage" | 9 | |
| 5481805203 | allusion | a reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that the author assumes the reader knows: "Here feel we but the penalty of Adam" | 10 | |
| 5481807903 | apostrophe | when one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or some abstraction: "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?" | 11 | |
| 5481810277 | euphemism | an indirect, less offensive way of saying something unpleasant: "You shall put this night's great business into my dispatch" | 12 | |
| 5481812078 | malapropism | the mistaken use of one word of another word that sounds similar: "Is our whole dissembly appeared?" | 13 | |
| 5481813502 | syllepsis | a construction in which one word is used in two different senses: "I left her there with a left at the corner." | 14 | |
| 5481814178 | epigram | a brief, pity, and often paradoxical saying: "I can resist everything but temptation." | 15 | |
| 5481815743 | expletive | an interject to lend emphasis, sometimes profanity: "By the Virgin Mary! You shan't be let down!" | 16 | |
| 5481816921 | jargon | the specialize language or vocabulary of a particular group or profession: "'Why, sir, a carpenter!' 'Where is thy leather apron and thy rule?" | 17 | |
| 5481818844 | solecism | non-standard grammatical usage; a violation of rules: "I quit school when I were 16." | 18 | |
| 5481822091 | tautology | needless repetition of the same: "I was given a free gift for purchasing a car." | 19 |
