AP Literature Terms Flashcards
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| 10160782924 | allegory | a story in which people, things and events have another meaning | 0 | |
| 10160786626 | Ambiguity | Multiple meanings a work may communicate | 1 | |
| 10160798716 | Apostrophe | direct address usually to someone that is not present | 2 | |
| 10160801542 | Connotation | implication of a word or phrase | 3 | |
| 10160803499 | Convention | a device of style used for means of expression | 4 | |
| 10160805796 | denotation | dictionary meaning | 5 | |
| 10160807784 | Didactic | explicitly instructive | 6 | |
| 10160810079 | Digression | the use of material unrelated to the subject of a work | 7 | |
| 10160813717 | epigram | a pithy saying, often using contrast | 8 | |
| 10160816899 | euphemism | a figure of speech using indirection to avoid offensive bluntness | 9 | |
| 10160828857 | grotesque | characterized by distortions or incongruitites | 10 | |
| 10160835366 | hyperbole | deliberate exaggeration | 11 | |
| 10160844109 | Jargon | Special language of a group or profession | 12 | |
| 10160850596 | Literal | not figurative | 13 | |
| 10160853088 | lyrical | songlike | 14 | |
| 10160856351 | Oxymoron | group of opposites | 15 | |
| 10160859174 | parable | a story designed to suggest a princible | 16 | |
| 10160861091 | paradox | a statement that seems self contradicting but in fact isn't | 17 | |
| 10160870906 | Parody | When a composition mimics another in forms of comedy | 18 | |
| 10160875515 | personification | A figurative use of giving nonhuman human characteristics | 19 | |
| 10160892156 | reliability | when the reader can trust the word of a fictional author | 20 | |
| 10160902864 | rhetorical question | a question not meant to be answered | 21 | |
| 10160908269 | soliloquy | When a character speaks their thoughts aloud privately | 22 | |
| 10160915753 | stereotype | conventional pattern | 23 |