AP Literature - Literary Terms Flashcards

7649487472	Metaphor	A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using the words like or as	0
7649490092	Simile	A common figure of speech that makes an explicit comparison between two things by using words such as like, as, appears, and seems	1
7649494233	Irony	A literary device that uses contradictory statements or situations to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true	2
7649497713	Metonymy	A type of metaphor in which something closely associated with a subject	3
7649504510	Apostrophe	An address, either to someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to something nonhuman that cannot comprehend	4
7649508399	Hyperbole	A boldly exaggerated statement that adds emphasis without intending to be literally true	5
7649513078	Synecdoche	A kind of metaphor in which a part of something is used to signify the whole	6
7649519103	Assonance	The repetition of internal vowel sounds in nearby words that do not end the same	7
7649521674	Enjambement	In poetry, when one line ends without a pause and continues into the next line for its meaning	8
7649523413	Doggerel	A derogatory term used to describe poetry whose subject is rite and whose rhythm and tones are monotonously heavy-handed	9
7649526858	Zeugma	Two sentences combined with a common noun or verb	10
7649528510	Epigram	A brief, pointed, and witty poem that usually makes a satiric or humorous point	11
7649530510	Parallelism	Similar sentence structure in a writing	12
7649532166	Eschatology	Literature that deals with the end of time	13
7649532167	Imagery	A word, phrase, or figure of speech that addresses the senses, suggesting mental pictures of sights, sounds, smells, tastes, feelings, or actions	14
7649549939	Allusion	A brief reference to a person, place, thing, event, or idea in history or literature	15