AP LITERATURE Flashcards
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| 7410177903 | Hyperbole | figurative language that is an exaggeration | 0 | |
| 7410179824 | irony | the opposite of the literal meaning, sarcasm | 1 | |
| 7410181558 | imagery | reating an visual image using the five senses | 2 | |
| 7410184212 | aristotelian appeals | ethos, pathos, logos | 3 | |
| 7410184803 | analogy | comparison between two things | 4 | |
| 7410190475 | rhetoric | the art of effective persuasive writing writing or speaking | 5 | |
| 7411556986 | repitition | the repeat of something | 6 | |
| 7411557981 | style | comparison between two things | 7 | |
| 7411560626 | syntax | the arrangement of words in a sentence or phrase that keeps a well formed sentence | 8 | |
| 7411560627 | theme | the moral of the story | 9 | |
| 7411561259 | anecdote | a short or interesting story about an real incident or person | 10 | |
| 7411561727 | parallelism | parts of a sentence are grammatically the same, or similar in construction | 11 | |
| 7411561728 | paradox | a statement that contradicts itself and seems somehow true | 12 | |
| 7411564106 | sarcasm | not meaning what is said using irony | 13 | |
| 7411564663 | understatement | figurative of speech the writer uses to intentionally make a situation less important than what it is | 14 | |
| 7411564664 | diction | style of writing or speaking, the choice of words the author use | 15 | |
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