AP Literature Vocabulary Terms Flashcards

5231092379	Alliteration	multiple words used in quick succession that use the same sound group at the beginning	0
5231096439	Allusion	when an author refers to another subject matter but leaves it up to the reader to make the connection	1
5231108263	Epitaph	a written tribute in memory of a person	2
5231110586	Assonance	repetition of the same vowel sound throughout multiple words in the same sentence	3
5231116316	Metaphor	a comparison of two things that points out a similar trait	4
5231121133	Personification	giving human traits to non-human objects	5
5231133708	Simile	a comparison of two things that point out similar trait using the words "as", "such as" or "like"	6
5231206042	Hyperbole	using words and phrases as a way to exaggerate emotions by saying something that is not really practical or probabel	7
5231219226	Situational Irony	something happens that we wouldn't expect to happen ie. a fire station burns down	8
5231232570	Dramatic Irony	the reader knows something that the characters do not	9
5231234645	Verbal Irony	what is said is different than what is meant	10
5231237320	Rhyming couplet	two lines that rhyme at the end	11
5231239219	Metonymy	referring to something, not by it's name but by naming an object or quality closely associated with it	12
5231250834	Litotes	ironical understatements in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary (double negative)	13
5231256725	Paradox	a situation, person or thing that combines contradicting features or qualities	14
5231313398	Synechdoche	representing a whole with just a part of part(s)	15
5231319818	Foil	shows a contrast in order to show the extremities of each part (character Edger + Edmund) Used to show opposite sides of the spectrum	16
5231461315	Poetic Justice	an ideal form of justice in which the good characters are rewarded and the bad characters are punished by an ironic twist of their fate.	17