Ap Language Arts Flashcards
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| 7163540460 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds. Effect: The repetition can reinforce meaning, unify ideas, and/or supply a musical sound. Example: she sells seashells by the sea shore | 0 | |
| 7163540461 | Allusion | A reference to a person, place, event, or another passage of literature without explicit identification. Allusions can originate in mythology, biblical references, historical events, legends, geography, or earlier literary works. Example: it's raining so hard, I hope it doesn't rain for 40 days and 40 nights (biblical allusion). He was a real Romeo with the ladies (literary allusion) | 1 | |
| 7163540462 | Imagery | Using sensory details to create mental images Effect: helps the reader/audience more realistically visualize the authors writings, thus immersing them in the text. Example: above the quiet dock in midnight, tangled in the tall mast's corded height, hangs the moon. What seemed so far away is but a child's balloon, forgotten after play. | 2 | |
| 7163540463 | Metaphor | A figure of speech using and implied comparison of seemingly unlike objects or the substitution of one for the other, suggesting some similarity Effect: makes writing more vivid imaginative, thought provoking, and meaningful Example: my love is a fragile flower | 3 | |
| 7163540464 | Personification | A figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions Effect: makes abstractions, animals, or objects appear more vivid to the reader/audience. Example: The moon winked at me throughout the clouds above | 4 | |
| 7163540465 | Simile | A comparison implied by using the words like, as, and or If. The two items, though seemingly dissimilar, share common characteristics Effect: makes writing more vivid, imaginative, thought provoking, and meaningful. Example: my love is like a red, red rose | 5 |