AP Literature Terms Flashcards
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| 9882065289 | Allusion | Patrick Henry urged his listeners not to be "betrayed with a kiss" | 0 | |
| 9882065290 | Denotation | Although the word "home" may suggest safety and comfort, it's really simply "one's residence." | 1 | |
| 9882065291 | Connotation | "Odor" and "fragrance" literally mean the same thing, but good things have fragrance, bad things have odor. | 2 | |
| 9882065292 | Diction | Hemingway uses few polysyllabic words; Dickens uses many polysyllabic words. | 3 | |
| 9882065293 | Syntax | A single sentence in a Faulkner work can sometimes be longer than an entire page, but Steinbeck tends to use simpler, shorter sentences. | 4 | |
| 9882065294 | Tone | Sardonic, apologetic, light-hearted, somber | 5 | |
| 9882065295 | Colloquialism | Huck Finn says, "I got the fantods" to describe his nervousness and says "shin" instead of "run" | 6 | |
| 9882065296 | Euphemism | In Victorian times, ladies were said to "glisten" rather than to "sweat" or "perspire." | 7 | |
| 9882065297 | Oxymoron | jumbo shrimp, pretty ugly | 8 | |
| 9882065298 | Anaphora | "We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves." | 9 | |
| 9882065299 | Analogy | By comparing conducting to politics, Igor Stravinsky helped non-musicians understand his feelings about orchestra conductors. | 10 | |
| 9882065300 | Invective | My opponent is a lying, cheating, immoral bully! | 11 | |
| 9882065301 | Paradox | Sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind. | 12 | |
| 9882065302 | Parody | a humorous imitation of a serious work | 13 | |
| 9882065303 | Aphorism | Early to bed and early to rise make a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. -- Benjamin Franklin | 14 | |
| 9882065304 | Hyperbole | There were at least a million people at the mall when I went shopping Saturday. | 15 | |
| 9882065305 | Apostrophe | Author to Her Book | 16 | |
| 9882065306 | Metonymy | The White House issued a statement today. | 17 | |
| 9882065307 | didactic | Fables and Parables present morals; Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography shows his readers how to be successful | 18 | |
| 9882065308 | Litotes | My parents were not overjoyed when I came home three hours past my curfew. | 19 | |
| 9882065309 | extended metaphor | a metaphor which extends over several lines or an entire poem | 20 | |
| 9882065310 | Epizeuxis | words or phrases are repeated in a quick succession after each other for emphasis | 21 | |
| 9882065311 | Synecdoche | All hands on deck, I have my eyes on you | 22 | |
| 9882065312 | Chiasmus | Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure | 23 | |
| 9882065313 | Pleonasm | Use of similar or redundant words or syllables, often enriching thought for emphasis | 24 | |
| 9882065314 | Epanalepsis | The repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause | 25 | |
| 9882065315 | Caesura | Final punctuation in the middle of a verse. | 26 | |
| 9882065316 | Enjabment | When a line of poetry runs on to the next line | 27 |