AP Literature Review Terms Flashcards

9850950024	Allegory	A story or poem with two levels of meaning: literal and symbolic. In this type of story, almost every character, item, action, etc. is symbolic.	0
9850950025	Alliteration	When several words in close proximity begin with the same consonant sound	1
9850950026	Allusion	A reference to another text, event, or historical/literary figure	2
9850950027	Anaphora	When the first few words of successive sentences or lines of poetry are the same	3
9850988050	Antithesis	Literally means opposite, rhetorical device in which 2 opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect.	4
9850950029	Apostrophe	Figure of speech used to address something which can not respond back	5
9850950030	Assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds in words which appear close to one another in a poem or passage	6
9850950036	Connotation	The secondary meanings of a word, including their emotional connections	7
9850950039	Denotation	The literal meaning of a word	8
9850950041	Imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	9
9850950042	Verbal irony	A figure of speech in which there is a difference between what is said and what is meant	10
9850950043	Dramatic irony	A type of irony in which the audience or reader knows more than a character knows	11
9850950044	Situational irony	A type of irony which occurs when there is a difference between expectation and reality	12
9850950045	Metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	13
9850950046	Metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is closely associated with it	14
9850950047	Onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	15
9850950048	Hyperbole	A figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	16
9850950049	Paradox	A statement which seems to contradict itself but actually reveals a truth	17
9850950050	Personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	18
9850950060	Symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else	19
9850950061	Synecdoche	A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole	20
9850950065	Understatement	The deliberate representation of something as lesser in magnitude than it actually is	21
9850950075	Diction	An author's word choice	22
9850950077	Foreshadowing	Hints or clues about what is to come later in a work of literature	23
9850950078	Foil	Two characters with opposing traits whose purpose is to highlight each others' differences	24
9851007230	Chiasmus	2/+ clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures to produce artistic effect. (Ex. fair is foul, foul is fair)	25
9851013909	Euphenism	Substitution of inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit	26
9851020674	Litotes	Figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.	27
9851026302	Oxymoron	In which incongruous/contradictory terms appear side by side	28
9851033277	Pun	Play on words, sometimes on difference sense of the same word and sometimes on similar sense or sound of different words	29
9851039999	Simile	Stated comparison usually formed with like or as	30