AP Vocab Flashcards
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9970245578 | structure | arrangement of parts of a sentence | 0 | |
9970247839 | motif | a recurring subject, theme, idea in a literary work | 1 | |
9970250291 | tone | the quality of something that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author | 2 | |
9970256376 | apostrophe | addressing someone or abstraction not usually present | 3 | |
9970261989 | analogy | comparison of two different things that are alike in some way | 4 | |
9970265660 | anastrophe | inversion of the normal syntactic order of words | 5 | |
9970265661 | allusion | brief reference to a person, event, or place | 6 | |
9970269340 | epithet | word or phrase that functions as part of someone's name | 7 | |
9970273056 | dramatic irony | when the reader knows something the character does not | 8 | |
9970277279 | litotes | form of understatement formed by denying the opposite | 9 | |
9970279314 | metonymy | substitution of one word for another which it suggests | 10 | |
9970279315 | paradox | reveals a kind of truth which at first seems contradictory | 11 |