AP Language Flashcards
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| 7278995829 | Irony(dramatic) | Character's words or actions are clear to audience or reader although unknown to the character. | 0 | |
| 7278995830 | Irony(situational) | Actions have effect that is opposite from what was intended. | 1 | |
| 7278995831 | Irony (verbal) | Words express something contrary to the truth. | 2 | |
| 7278995832 | Satire | Use of humor irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to criticize people's stupidity. | 3 | |
| 7278995833 | Parody | Imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect. | 4 | |
| 7278995834 | Absurdity | The quality or state of being ridiculous or wildly unreasonable. | 5 | |
| 7278995835 | Paradox | A statement that leads to a self-contradictory or a logically unacceptable conclusion. | 6 | |
| 7278995836 | Cognitive dissonance | The state of having and inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitude, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change. | 7 | |
| 7278995837 | Non Sequitur | A conclusion or statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument or statement. | 8 | |
| 7278995838 | Impression | An opinion about something or someone formed without conscious thought or on the basis of a little evidence; imitation of a person or thing. | 9 | |
| 7278995839 | Misunderstanding | A disagreement; failure to understand something correctly. | 10 | |
| 7278995840 | Pun | A job exploiting the different possible meanings of a word. | 11 | |
| 7278995841 | Litotes | An affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary. | 12 | |
| 7278995842 | Heckling | Interrupting (a public speaker) with aggressive comments or abuse. | 13 | |
| 7278995843 | Black comedy (discomfort with truth) | Comedy containing bitter jokes about the unpleasant aspects of life. | 14 | |
| 7278995844 | Schadenfreude | Pleasure derived by someone from another person's misfortune. | 15 | |
| 7278995845 | Contrast/juxtaposition | Two things being seen close together with contrasting effect. | 16 | |
| 7278995846 | Hyperbole/escalation | Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. | 17 | |
| 7278995847 | Bon mot | A witty remark. | 18 | |
| 7278995848 | Caricature | A picture or imitation of a person or thing in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic effect. | 19 | |
| 7278995849 | Double blunder/relapse | Bad move caused by tactical oversight such as carelessness or overconfidence. | 20 | |
| 7278995850 | Epigram | A pithy remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way. | 21 | |
| 7278995851 | Farce | Ca comic dramatic work using buffoonery horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations. | 22 | |
| 7278995852 | Common ground | Opinions or interest shared by each of two or more parties. | 23 | |
| 7278995853 | Freudian slip | An error in speech, memory, or physical action that is interpreted as occurring due to the interference of an unconscious subdued wish. | 24 | |
| 7278995854 | Inversion/reversal | Action of reversing something. | 25 | |
| 7278995855 | Lampoon | A text criticizing someone or something in this way. | 26 | |
| 7278995856 | Malapropism | Mistaken use of a word in place of a similar- sounding one, often with unintentionally amusing effect. | 27 | |
| 7278995857 | Recovery | A return to normal state. | 28 | |
| 7278995858 | Spoof | Humorous imitation of something. | 29 | |
| 7278995859 | Spoonerism | A verbal error in which a speaker accidentally transposes the initial sounds or letters of two or more words. | 30 | |
| 7278995860 | Paraprosdokian | Figure of speech in which the latter part of the sentence, phrase, or larger discourse is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reinterpret the first part. | 31 |