AP Literature-Figures of Speech Flashcards
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| 6246546836 | Aposiopesis | a breaking off speech, usually because of rising emotion ("Touch me one more time and I swear...) | 0 | |
| 6246546837 | Cacophony | clash of harsh sounds, like a tongue twister (anfractuous rocks) | 1 | |
| 6246549511 | Chiasmus | two phrases where the syntax is the same but the placement of words is reversed. (To be beloved is all I need/And whom I love, love indeed) | 2 | |
| 6246657282 | Conceit | parallel between two different objects or ideas | 3 | |
| 6246657283 | Epithet | adjective or phrase that describes a prominent feature of a person or thing (Richard the Lionheart) | 4 | |
| 6246661491 | Euphamism | decorous language to express vulgar ideas (passed away=died) | 5 | |
| 6246663448 | Euphony | pleasing arrangement of sounds (cellar door) | 6 | |
| 6246663449 | Litotes | form of understatement formed by negating its opposite (He is not unfriendly) | 7 | |
| 6246667486 | Meiosis | opposite of hyperbole (It's only a scratch when you're mortally wounded) | 8 | |
| 6246670548 | Metonymy | substitute one word for another that are generally associated with each other (Businessmen changed to suits) | 9 | |
| 6246670549 | Paradox | seems like absurd statement but reveals something deep (All men kill the thing they love) | 10 | |
| 6246672228 | Paralipsis | drawing attention to something by claiming not to mention it ("We will not speak of it...") | 11 | |
| 6246672229 | Pathetic fallacy | attribution of human feeling to a nonhuman object (weeping cloud) | 12 | |
| 6246679573 | Synaesthesia | use of one sensory experience to describe another (Heard melodies are sweet) | 13 | |
| 6246682985 | Synechdoche | form of substituting words by referring to the whole (my wheels=my car) | 14 | |
| 6246684876 | Zeugma | use of one word to modify two other words in the sentence in different ways | 15 |