AP Literature (Literary Techniques) Flashcards

6492605935	Metonymy	Using something loosely associated with what it's intended to represent	0
6492615957	Synecdoche	Using a part of the thing to mean the whole thing itself	1
6492619109	Paradox	An apparent contradiction that actually may contain a universal truth	2
6492626509	Motif	A recurring image, word, phrase, action, idea, object, or situation that appears throughout the same work	3
6492635679	Apostrophe	direct address or calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place, inanimate object, or idea	4
6492641717	Pathos	The quality in a work that arouses emotion of pity, sorrow, or sympathy from the reader	5
6492649313	Symbol	Thing that has meaning of its own but also stand for an idea beyond itself	6
6492653486	Hyperbole	Statement of exaggeration	7
6492686200	Litotes	Understatement in which the truth is expressed by negating its opposite	8
6492690738	Euphemism	A mild pleasant word or phrase that is used instead of one that is unpleasant of offensive	9
6492697000	Allusion	Reference to a well-known historical or literary figure or event	10
6492701014	Parallelism	Showing that words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures are comparable in content and importance by placing them side by side and making them similar in form	11
6492716410	Onomatopoeia	The use of words whose sound imitates meaning	12
6492723877	Chiasmus	Grammatically balanced statement of contradictory ideas; an inverted relationship between parallel phrases	13
6492735084	Synesthesia	An image of sense evoked by a sense besides the one being stimulated	14
6492738713	Ellipsis	Leaving out unnecessary words...for the phrase to be better understood	15
6492744785	Colloquial	A familiar, informal style or expression	16
6492747790	Denotation	The exact, dictionary meaning of a particular word	17
6492753803	Connotation	Emotional word associations usually based on individual experience, regional experience, or universal implications	18
6492760741	Oxymoron	Two contradictory words or phrases are combined in a single expression, giving the effect of a condensed paradox	19