AP Literature Literary Devices Flashcards

7468533016	Allusion	An indirect or passing reference to an event, person, place, or artistic work that the author assumes the reader will understand. (historic, literary, religious, mythical) Examples: -Captain Beatty in Fahrenheit 451 references the biblical story about The Tower of Babel. -To call someone Romeo, references to Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"	0
7468554009	Anadiplosis	Repetition of a key word, especially the last one, at the beginning of the next sentence or clause. Examples: - "He gave his life; life was all he could give." - "....you must make every effort to support your faith with goodness, and goodness with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with endurance, and endurance with godliness, and godliness with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love" ( The Bible, II Peter 1:5 - 7)	1
7468577912	Analogy	Comparing of similar things, often to explain something unfamiliar with something familiar. Examples: -The branching of a river system is often explained using a tree and its branches -An atom looks like the solar system; the nucleus is the sun and the electrons are planets	2
7468592152	Apostrophe	A rhetorical device in which the speaker addresses a dead or absent person, or an inanimate object or abstraction. Examples: -Hamlet has a conversation with a skull -"Then come sweet death, and rid me of this grief" from Edward II, Marlowe	3
7468603312	Cliche	An overused, worn out, hackneyed expression that used to be fresh but is no more. Examples: -"Blushing bride" or "clinging vines" are used to describe people. -Others could be "dead as a door nail" and "like a kid in a candy store"	4