Literary Terms AP Literature Flashcards

11377634542	Allusion	Brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art. An allusion may be drawn from history, geography, literature, or religion.	0
11377636068	Connotation	Implied meaning of a word	1
11377639031	Denotation	Dictionary meaning of a word	2
11377640744	Hyperbole	Exaggeration or overstatement for effect	3
11377642502	Imagery	Language that evokes one or all of the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching	4
11377645181	Irony	Using language that normally signifies the opposite of what the writer intends to achieve a humorous effect or to add emphasis	5
11377646655	Metaphor	Comparison of two UNLIKE things by saying one is another	6
11377649153	Metonymy	Substituting a word for another word closely associated with it	7
11377651660	Onomatopoeia	Word that imitates the sound it represents	8
11377654042	Oxymoron	Apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction	9
11377656542	Personification	Giving human qualities to non-living things	10
11377658927	Simile	Comparison of two unlike things using like or as	11
11377663287	Symbol	Using an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning	12
11377665684	Synecdoche	One uses a part to represent the whole	13
11380798296	Alliteration	Repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words	14
11380800688	Assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds within words	15
11380802016	Caesura	Strong pause within a line of verse	16
11380803349	Consonance	Repetition of consonant sounds within words, particularly at the end of words	17
11380804117	Enjambment	Continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza	18
11380806582	Kenning	Figure of speech, substituted for the usual name of a person or thing	19
11380808248	Malapropism	Misusing words ridiculously, esp. by the confusion of words that are similar in sound	20
11380809426	Meter	Sound pattern for verse, comments on the stress of the syllables	21
11380810513	Slant Rhyme	Close but not exact rhyme	22
11380811955	Anadiplosis	Repetition of a word or words in successive clauses in such a way that the second clause starts with the same word which marks the end of the previous clause.	23
11380813965	Anaphora	Deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs	24
11380815454	Ellipsis	When one or more words are omitted from a sentence (...)	25
11380816426	Epistrophe	Same word returns at the end of each sentence	26
11380817710	Inversion	Changing of the usual order of words	27
11380819251	Polysyndeton	Repetition of connectives or conjunctions in close succession for rhetorical effect, as in the phrase here and there and everywhere	28
11380820423	Zeugma	Figure of speech in which a word, usually a verb or an adjective, applies to more than one noun, blending together grammatically and logically different ideas	29