AP Literature Terms- #4 Flashcards

8003551465	Parallelism	the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc	0
8003553236	Personification	the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form	1
8003557764	Polysyndeton	the use of several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some could otherwise be omitted (as in "he ran and jumped and laughed for joy")	2
8003563080	Repetition	the action of repeating something that has already been said or written	3
8003566601	Rhetorical Question	a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer	4
8003568829	Sarcasm	the use of irony to mock or convey contempt	5
8003571467	Satire	the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues	6
8003574021	Shift	when speakers or writers alter their style or tone in a piece	7
8003584894	Simile	a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid	8
8003588189	Synesthesia	the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body	9
8003590532	Symbol	a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract	10
8003595477	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning "Cleveland's baseball team")	11
8003598781	Syntax	the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language	12
8003601449	Understatement	the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is	13