AP Terms 3 Flashcards

12746346675	Aphorism	a concise, pithy statement of an opinion or a general truth. ("power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely").	0
12746386392	malapropism	the unintentional use of a word that resembles the word intended but that has a very different meaning ("he was a man of great stature").	1
12746398931	circumlocution	talking around a subject	2
12746403927	Euphemism	a word or words that are used to avoid employing an unpleasant or offensive term.	3
12746420820	prosaic	dull, lacking in distinction and originality; matter-of-fact, straightforward; not poetic	4
12746431787	adage/proverb	a short statement expressing a general truth ("nothing ventured, nothing gained").	5
12746440518	maxim	a general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying ("where there's life, there's hope.")	6
12746446325	motto	brief statement used to express a principle ("where there's life, there's hope.")	7
12746458765	Irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	8
12746462039	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	9
12746473584	Sarcasm	verbal irony used with the intent to injure	10
12746477841	situational irony	a situation that runs contrary to what was expected	11
12746483993	Satire	something portrayed in a way that's deliberately distorted to achieve comic effect.	12
12746502044	Parody	imitation for comic effect	13
12746504143	lampoon	sharp ridicule of the behavior or character of a person or institution	14
12746508385	caricature	a ludicrous exaggeration of the defects of persons or things	15
12746518587	cogent	clear, logical, and convincing	16
13527106977	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.	17