AP Literature Poetic Devices Flashcards

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