AP literature terms Flashcards

10946651552	Assonance	When two or more words, close to one another repeat the same vowel sound, start with different consonant sounds	0
10946687184	Bathos	insincere or overly sentimental quality of writing/speech intended to evoke pity	1
10946706409	Chiasmus	A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed	2
10946709452	cliche	A statement that has been overused to the extent that its freshness has worn off	3
10946721017	Climax	the point of highest interest in a literary work	4
10946727611	Colloquialism	informal words or expressions not usually acceptable in formal writing	5
10946731059	Conduplication	when an important word is taken from anywhere in one sentence or phrase and repeats it at the beginning of the next sentence or phrase	6
10946736696	Connotation	the implied or associative meaning of a word	7
10946741737	Consonance	repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase	8
10946748812	declarative sentence	a sentence that makes a statement or declaration	9