AP Literature Flashcards
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| 5617801035 | alliteration | several consecutive words w/the same sound ("The twisting trout twinkled below.") | 0 | |
| 5617808471 | allusion | A mythological, literary, or historical person, place, or thing ("He met his Waterloo.") | 1 | |
| 5617814816 | antithesis | structurally parallel words, phrases, or clauses for the purpose of contrast ("Sink or swim.") | 2 | |
| 5617830457 | apostrophe | absent or dead are spoken to as if present ("Michael Jackson, you sure can dance!") | 3 | |
| 5617835574 | assonance | vowel sounds in a series of words ("cry" and "side") | 4 | |
| 5617839717 | consonance | consonant sound w/in a series of words ("She sells seashells by the seashore.") | 5 | |
| 5617845359 | diction | word choice | 6 | |
| 5617848340 | foreshadowing | hints in a narrative to suggest future action | 7 | |
| 5617851762 | hyperbole | intentional exaggeration for effect ("The shot heard 'round the world.") | 8 | |
| 5617858981 | verbal irony | a speaker says one thing while meaning the opposite ("It is easy to stop smoking. I've done it many times.") | 9 | |
| 5617865666 | situational irony | when a situation turns out differently from what one would normally expect - though often the twist is oddly appropriate (a deep sea diver drowning in a bathtub) | 10 | |
| 5617876809 | dramatic irony | a character says something that has different meanings from what he thinks, though the audience knows what's up (In a scary movie, a character goes into a house, but the audience knows that the killer is in the house.) | 11 | |
| 5617887517 | metaphor | comparison of two unlike things not using "like" or "as" ("Time is money.") | 12 | |
| 5617894842 | onomatopoeia | use of words that mimic the sounds they describe ("buzz") | 13 | |
| 5617905476 | oxymoron | combines a pair of opposite terms into a single unusual expression ("sweet sorrow") | 14 | |
| 5617923792 | paradox | a statement contradict each other; although the statement may appear illogical, it turns out to have a coherent meaning ("Youth is wasted on the young.") | 15 | |
| 5617937471 | personification | inanimate objects or abstract ideas with human characteristics ("The wind cried in the dark.") | 16 | |
| 5617945412 | prosody | study of sound and rhythm in poetry | 17 | |
| 5617948150 | pun | play on words ("Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.") | 18 | |
| 5617963360 | end rhyme | occurs at the end of lines | 19 | |
| 5617966659 | internal rhyme | within a line | 20 | |
| 5617966660 | slant rhyme | approximate rhyme | 21 | |
| 5617970695 | rhyme scheme | pattern of end rhymes | 22 | |
| 5617974604 | simile | comparison of two different things using "like" or "as" ("The warrior fought like a lion.") | 23 | |
| 5617980178 | suspense | a quality that makes the audience tense | 24 | |
| 5617984480 | synecdoche (metonymy) | a part of something is used to signify the whole ("All hands on deck.") a whole can represent a part ("Canada played the U.S. in the Olympic hockey finals.") container representing the thing being contained ("The pot is boiling.") material stands for the object itself ("The quarterback tossed the pigskin.") | 25 | |
| 5618006640 | metonymy | name of one thing is applied to another thing with which it is closely associated ("I love Shakespeare.") | 26 | |
| 5618012666 | understatement (meiosis litotes) | irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is ("I could probably manage to survive on a salary of two million dollars per year.") | 27 |