AP Literature Vocabulary: Literary Devices #5 Flashcards

8595878833	Chiasmus	Chiasmus comes from a Greek word meaning "crossed," and it refers to a grammatical structure that inverts a previous phrase. That is, you say one thing, and then you say something very similar, but flipped around.	0
8595885133	Circumlocution	Circumlocution means "talking around" or "talking in circles." It's when you want to discuss something, but don't want to make any direct reference to it, so you create a way to get around the subject. The key to circumlocution is that the statement has to be unnecessarily long and complicated.	1
8595894220	Connotation	A connotation is a feeling or idea that a word has, in addition to its literal or main meaning. Often, a series of words can have the same basic definitions, but completely different connotations—these are the emotions or meanings implied by a word, phrase, or thing.	2
8595899532	Consonance	Consonance (pronounced is the combination of consistently copied consonants. It's when the same consonant sound appears repeatedly in a line or sentence, creating a rhythmic effect.	3
8595905453	Denotation	Denotation (pronounced dee-noh-tey-shuh n) is a word' or thing's literal or main definition. A word's denotation is completely absent of emotion, so it is defined as distinguished from its connotation. In other words, denotation is a word's "dictionary definition" rather than its associated emotion or definition	4