AP LANGUAGE LITERARY TERMS 1 Flashcards

7686610580	ALLITERATION	Repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together.	0
7686617641	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.	1
7686617642	ANECDOTE	Brief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something, often shows character of an individual.	2
7686635099	APOSTROPHE	Calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea.	3
7686635100	CLICHE	A word of phrase, often a figure of speech, that has become lifeless because of overuse.	4
7686639396	COLLOQUIALISM	A word of phrase in everyday use in conversation and informal writing but is inappropriate for formal situations.	5
7686639397	EPITHET	An adjective or adjective phrase applied to a person or thing that is frequently used to emphasize a characteristic quality.	6
7686641950	FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE	Words which are inaccurate if interpreted literally, but are used to describe. Similes and metaphors are common forms.	7
7686641951	FLASHBACK	A scene that interrupts the normal chronological sequence of events in a story to depict something that happened at an earlier time.	8
7686641952	FORESHADOWING	The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot.	9
7686644533	HYPERBOLE	A figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration of overstatement, for effect.	10
7686644534	IMAGERY	The use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience.	11
7686644535	JUXTAPOSITION	The fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.	12
7686648305	METAPHOR	A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.	13
7686648306	METONYMY	A figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing is referred to by something closely associated with it.	14
7686651345	OXYMORON	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	15
7686651346	PUN	A "play on words" based on the multiple meanings of a single word or on words that sound alike but mean different things.	16
7686651347	SIMILE	A figure of speech that makes an explicitly comparison between two unlike things, using words such as like, as, than, or resembles.	17
7686654157	SOLILOQUY	A long speech made by a character in a play while no other characters are on stage.	18
7686654158	SYNECDOCHE	A figure of speech in which a part represents the whole.	19
7686656158	UNDERSTATEMENT	A statement that says less than what is meant.	20
7686656159	ZEUGMA	A figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses.	21
7686668742	ASSONANCE	The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds especially in words that are together.	22