AP LITERATURE VOCAB QUIZ 1 Flashcards
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| 10565314119 | alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | 0 | |
| 10565315498 | allusion | an indirect or passing reference. | 1 | |
| 10565315499 | anachronism | a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, | 2 | |
| 10565319463 | analogy | a comparison between two things, | 3 | |
| 10565319464 | ancedote | a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person. "told anecdotes about his job" | 4 | |
| 10565322428 | apostrophe | addresses an absent person, an abstract idea, or a thing | 5 | |
| 10565322429 | assonace | the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables | 6 | |
| 10565324716 | ballad | poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. | 7 | |
| 10565324717 | caricature | characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect. | 8 | |
| 10565332660 | collquialism | a word or phrase that is not formal or literary, | 9 |