AP Literature Terms #3 Flashcards

3466249214	inference/infer	to draw a reasonable conclusion from given evidence.	0
3466253808	invective	emotionally violent, or abusive language.	1
3466261575	irony	the contrast of what is specifically stated and what is meant	2
3466262178	loose sentence	a type of sentence in which the independent clause comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses.	3
3466269133	metaphor	the implied comparison of seemingly unlike things, or substituting one for the other.	4
3466275868	metonymy	a figure of speech in which one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with is	5
3466277216	mood	an element that evokes certain emotions in the reader through words or descriptions	6
3466280111	narrative	the telling of a story or a series of events	7
3466282221	onomatopoeia	natural sounds that are imitated through words	8
3466286297	oxymoron	when two very different words or phrases are placed together to create a paradox ex) jumbo shrimp	9
3466288550	paradox	a statement that seems to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense.	10
3466291023	parallelism	refers to the rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences or paragraphs to give structural similarity	11