AP Literature Terms Flashcards
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| 12178952380 | Alliteration | the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words |  | 0 |
| 12178956923 | Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds |  | 1 |
| 12178965079 | Consonance | Repetition of consonant sounds |  | 2 |
| 12178970144 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love |  | 3 |
| 12178972766 | Personification | the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea |  | 4 |
| 12178974791 | Anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines |  | 5 |
| 12178978111 | Stanza | A group of lines in a poem |  | 6 |
| 12178979368 | Irony | the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning |  | 7 |
| 12178982645 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. |  | 8 |
| 12178994983 | Synthesia | describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound") |  | 9 |
| 12178999608 | Caesura | a strong pause within a line of verse |  | 10 |
| 12179004169 | refrain | A line or set of lines repeated several times over the course of a poem |  | 11 |
| 12179008347 | Enjambment | the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza |  | 12 |
| 12179010236 | Allusion | an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference |  | 13 |
| 12179014824 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase |  | 14 |
| 12179021837 | Hyperbole | exaggeration; overstatement |  | 15 |
| 12179023272 | slant rhyme | rhyme in which the vowel sounds are nearly, but not exactly the same (i.e. the words "stress" and "kiss"); sometimes called half-rhyme, near rhyme, or partial rhyme |  | 16 |
| 12179027955 | sight rhyme | a similarity between words in spelling but not in pronunciation |  | 17 |
| 12179029446 | end rhyme | Rhyme that occurs at the end of two or more lines of poetry |  | 18 |
| 12179030511 | internal rhyme | A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line |  | 19 |
| 12179032119 | Imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) |  | 20 |
| 12179034338 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as |  | 21 |
| 12179036860 | Simile | A comparison of two unlike things using like or as |  | 22 |