AP Lit Literary Devices-kulseth Flashcards

8716838133	absolute	a word free from limitations or qualifications	0
8716838134	anecdote	a brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event	1
8716838135	antecedent	the word, clause, or phrase to which a pronoun refers	2
8716838136	antithesis	a statement in which 2 opposing ideas are balanced	3
8716838137	archetype	a detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response	4
8716838138	allusion	a reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that the author assumes the reader will recognize	5
8716838139	colloquialism	informal words or expressions not usually acceptable in formal writing	6
8716838140	denotation	the literal meaning of a word	7
8716838141	connotation	the implied or associative meaning of a word	8
8716838142	didactic	having the primary purpose of teaching or instructing	9
8716838143	epiphany	a moment of sudden realization or insight	10
8716838144	epitaph	an inscription on a tomb or burial place	11
8716838145	epithet	a term used to point out a characteristic of a person; often compound adjectives	12
8716838146	euphemism	an indirect and less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant	13
8716838147	expletive	an interjection to lend emphasis; sometimes a profanity	14
8716838148	fable	a brief story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters	15
8716838149	hubris	excessive pride or arrogance that results in the downfall of the protagonist of a tragedy	16
8716838150	invective	an intensely vehement, highly emotional verbal attack	17
8716838151	limited narrator	a narrator who presents the story as it's seen and understood by a single character and restricts info to that character	18
8716838152	mood	the emotional atmosphere of a work	19
8716838153	tone	attitude of a writer, usually implied, towards the subject/audience	20
8716838154	parody	humorous imitation of a serious work	21
8716838155	pedantic	characterized by an excessive display of learning/scholarship	22
8716838156	parable	a simple story that illustrates a moral/religious lesson	23
8716838157	dichotomy	a division/contrast between 2 things that are represented as being opposite/different	24
8716838158	hyperbole	an exaggeration	25
8716838159	litote	a conscious understatement to emphasize something	26
8716838160	chiasmus	a statement with two parallel parts where they're structurally reversed	27
8716838161	Ellipses	used to indicate that words have been omitted in a text or that they are missing or illegible	28
8716838162	aphorism	a brief statement on a serious subject or truth, often using rhyme or balance	29
9415321686	irony	the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning, incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs	30
9415321687	paradox	an apparently contradictory statement that actually contains some truth	31
9415321688	metonymy	substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it	32
9415321689	synechdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	33
9415324467	oxymoron	a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction	34
9415324468	syllepsis	a construction in which one word is used in two different senses	35
9415324469	anaphora	the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences	36
9415337727	apostrophe	address to an absent or imaginary person	37
9415337817	exhortative	giving strong encouragement	38
9415339504	ingratiating	calculated to please or gain favor	39
9415341115	ad hominem	a fallacy that attacks the person rather than dealing with the real issue in dispute	40
9415341116	analogy	A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way	41
9415341117	alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds	42
9415342795	asyndeton	a construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions	43
9415346068	polysyndeton	the use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural	44
9415348646	anadiplosis	repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause	45
9415348647	conceit	a fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor	46
9415350402	inductive reasoning	specific to general reasoning from detailed facts to general principles	47
9415350403	deductive reasoning	general to specific reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)	48
9415353266	diction	word choice	49
9415353267	syntax	sentence structure	50
9415353268	synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound")	51
9415355953	compound sentence	a sentence with two or more coordinate independent clauses, often joined by one or more conjunctions	52
9415355954	complex sentence	A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause	53
9415357669	dependent clause	subject and verb that does not express a complete thought and cannot stand alone as a sentence (without a subject and verb probably a modifier NOT a dependent clause)	54
9415357670	cumulative sentence	an independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail- this may include words or grammatical structures that are not clauses (different from complex sentence)	55
9415359608	modifying clause	an optional element of a sentence that does not change the essential meaning or structure of the sentence if removed	56
9415359609	dissonance	harsh, inharmonious, or discordant sounds	57
9415361157	declarative sentence	a sentence that makes a statement or declaration	58
9415361158	interrogative sentence	A sentence that asks a question	59
9415361159	exclamatory sentence	a sentence expressing strong feeling, usually punctuated with an exclamation mark	60
9415363520	rhetorical question	A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer	61
9415363521	hypophora	raising a question then proceeding to answer it	62
9415366344	procatalepsis	anticipating an objection and answering it	63
9415366345	solecism	nonstandard grammatical usage; a violation of grammatical rules	64
9415366346	malapropism	the mistaken substitution of one word for another word that sounds similar	65
9415368656	COMMORATIO	repetition of an idea in different words	66
9415452224	EPIMONE	frequent repetition of a phrase or question dwelling on a point	67
9415456843	EPIPHORA	repetition of a word or phrase at the end of several clauses	68
9415461468	EPIZEUXIS (ep-uh-ZOOX-sis)	repetition of a word for emphasis (usually with no words in between)	69
9415464715	POLYPTOTON	repetition of words derived from the same root but with different endings	70
9423910211	PERIODIC SENTENCE	a long and frequently involved sentence, marked by suspended syntax, in which the sense is not completed until the final word—often with an emphatic climax.	71