AP Vocabulary Unit 1 Flashcards
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| 4854195120 | Action | The bare events in a story. Not to be confused with plot. | 0 | |
| 4854195121 | Analogy | A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way | 1 | |
| 4854195951 | Chiasm | A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed ("Susan walked in, and out rushed Mary.") | 2 | |
| 4854195952 | Connotation | An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning | 3 | |
| 4854195953 | Denotation | The literal meaning of a word | 4 | |
| 4854197323 | Digression | a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing | 5 | |
| 4854197324 | Eponym | n. a person after whom a place, people, disease, etc. is named | 6 | |
| 4854197325 | Genre | The major category into which a literary work fits. The basic divisions of literature are prose, poetry, and drama. | 7 | |
| 4854198547 | Juxtaposition | (n.) the act of placing two things next to each other for implicit comparison (The interior designer admired my juxtaposition of the yellow couch and green table.) | 8 | |
| 4854198548 | Novel | An extended piece of prose fiction: a major category in literature. | 9 |