AP Literature Terms Flashcards
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| 8575460828 | Allegory | story or poem in which characters, settings, and events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities. | 0 | |
| 8575468934 | Alliteration | repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together. | 1 | |
| 8575476217 | Anaphora | repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row. This is a deliberate form of repetition and helps make the writer's point more coherent. | 2 | |
| 8575488912 | Anastrophe | Inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence. Purpose is rhythm or emphasis or euphony. It is a fancy word for inversion. | 3 | |
| 8575505337 | Antimetabole | Repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order. | 4 | |
| 8575510987 | Antithesis | Balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure. | 5 | |
| 8575516333 | ANTHROPOMORPHISM | attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object (Personification) | 6 | |
| 8575527482 | APOSTROPHE | calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea. If the character is asking a god or goddess for inspiration it is called an invocation. | 7 | |
| 8575534284 | ASSONANCE | the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds especially in words that are together. | 8 | |
| 8575544363 | ASYNDETON | Commas used without conjunction to separate a series of words, thus emphasizing the parts equally | 9 | |
| 8575584701 | CHIASMUS | In poetry, a type of rhetorical balance in which the second part is syntactically balanced against the first, but with the parts reversed | 10 | |
| 8575590797 | COLLOQUIALISM | a word or phrase in everyday use in conversation and informal writing but is inappropriate for formal situations. | 11 | |
| 8575617071 | CONCEIT | an elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are startlingly different. Often an extended metaphor. | 12 | |
| 8575636925 | DIDACTIC | form of fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking. | 13 | |
| 8575682091 | EPANALEPSIS | device of repetition in which the same expression (single word or phrase) is repeated both at the beginning and at the end of the line, clause, or sentence. | 14 |