AP Terms Test Flashcards
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| 5550214456 | Abstract | Complex writing that discusses big ideas like good, evil, love, life | 0 | |
| 5550214457 | Allegory | a story where characters or events are symbols for something much bigger: story can be read two ways | 1 | |
| 5550221773 | Alliteration | repetition of the first letter of many words | 2 | |
| 5550221774 | Allusion | reference to another work or person (Shakespeare, Greek and the Bible) | 3 | |
| 5550225489 | Analogy | similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them (metaphor, simile) | 4 | |
| 5550225490 | Anaphora | repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of many sentences of a text or poem | 5 | |
| 5550229777 | Anthromorphism | when author gives human characteristics to animals | 6 | |
| 5550232239 | Aphorism | a memorable statement, words of wisdom (curiosity killed the cat) | 7 | |
| 5550232240 | Apostrophe | when a person speaks to an imaginary character or object | 8 | |
| 5550232241 | Archaic | use of old-fashioned language (sometimes for effect) | 9 | |
| 5550234654 | Assonance | repetition of vowels in a sentence | 10 | |
| 5550234655 | Blank Verse | unrhymned poetry written in iambic pentameter (lines of 10 of syllables that are stressed then unstressed...) Shakespeare used this | 11 | |
| 5550234656 | Bombast | snobby, exaggerated language to make the speaker seem powerful | 12 | |
| 5550238732 | Colloquial | use of everyday, informal langauge or slang | 13 | |
| 5550238733 | Conceit | a metaphor that appears throughout the entire text or poem | 14 | |
| 5550238734 | Consonance | repetition of a consonants sounds in a word | 15 | |
| 5550242288 | Doggerel | bad or crude poetry | 16 | |
| 5550242289 | Euphemism | making a bad situation sound less bad by using good words | 17 | |
| 5550245489 | Inversion | switching the usual order of words | 18 | |
| 5550248331 | Verbal Irony | when your words mean the exact opposite of your meaning | 19 | |
| 5550248332 | Dramatic Irony | when the audience knows whats going to happen or know more than the character | 20 | |
| 5550248333 | Situational Irony | when something turns out opposite of what you expect to happen | 21 | |
| 5550248334 | Litotes | an understatement ("just a little tumor") | 22 | |
| 5550252100 | Onomatoeia | words that gives out a sound | 23 | |
| 5550252101 | Oxymoron | a phrase of two words that contradict themselves | 24 | |
| 5550252102 | Paradox | a statement that contradicts but it is still true (an idea) | 25 | |
| 5550253938 | Pastoral | making the country or rural life seem perfect | 26 | |
| 5550253939 | Pedantic | show-offy language, a person who wants to appear smart by using big words | 27 |