AP Lit - Figurative Language Flashcards
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| 3992600813 | Alliteration | Repeated initial consonant sound | 0 | |
| 3992600814 | Allusion | Reference to a known person or place which adds it's connotations to what is being said | 1 | |
| 3992600815 | Antithesis | The juxtaposition of opposing or contrasting ideas, usually in parallel presentation | 2 | |
| 3992600816 | Apostrophe | Figure of speech wherein a quality or someone absent or dead is addressed as a person present | 3 | |
| 3992600817 | Assonance | Repeated vowel sounds sounds | 4 | |
| 3992600818 | Bathos | Insincere or overly sentimental pathos | 5 | |
| 3992600819 | Cacophony | The use of harsh or discordant sound in literary composition | 6 | |
| 3992600820 | Conceit | Extended metaphor comparing two very unlike things | 7 | |
| 3992600821 | Consonance | Repeated consonant sounds, especially at the end of stressed syllables | 8 | |
| 3992600822 | Euphony | A harmoniousness in speech sounds, especially created through emphasizing patterns of consonants and vowels | 9 | |
| 3992600823 | Hyperbole | Gross exaggeration | 10 | |
| 3992600824 | Imagery | Collection of images - often figures of speech - found in a work | 11 | |
| 3992600825 | Litotes | Form of understatement wherein one states the negative of its opposite | 12 | |
| 3992600826 | Metaphor | Implied comparison | 13 | |
| 3992600827 | Metonymy | Substitution of a word that relates to whole original or of a word that is closely related to the first | 14 | |
| 3992600828 | Onomatopoedia | Words which sound like what they mean | 15 | |
| 3992600829 | Oxymoron | Contradictory terms brought together to express a paradox | 16 | |
| 3992600830 | Paradox | A seemingly contradictory situation which does have meaning | 17 | |
| 3992600831 | Parallelism | Coordinate ideas expressed in a coordinate presentations | 18 | |
| 3992600832 | Pathos | A feeling of sympathy that is aroused by a work of art | 19 | |
| 3992600833 | Personification | Giving human characteristics to animals or objects | 20 | |
| 3992600834 | Repitition | Reiteration of a word or phrase | 21 | |
| 3992600835 | Sensory language | Words chosen to appeal to the senses | 22 | |
| 3992600836 | Similie | Direct comparison, using "like" or "as" | 23 | |
| 3992600837 | Synecdoche | Figure of speech wherein a part stands for the whole | 24 | |
| 3992600838 | Synesthesia | A blending or confusion of different sense impressions; a sensation or image of a sense other than the one that is being stimulated | 25 |