AP English Language Terms Flashcards

14724206225	Assonance	Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity	0
14724206226	Allegory	a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.	1
14724206227	Alliteration	the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.	2
14724206228	Ambiguity	An event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way.	3
14724206229	anachronism	something out of place in time	4
14724206230	Analogy	A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way	5
14724206231	Anaphora	the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences	6
14724206232	Antithesis	the direct opposite, a sharp contrast	7
14724206233	Apostrophe	a figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person, or some abstraction	8
14724206234	Appeals	ethos, logos, pathos	9
14724206235	Aside	a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage	10
14724206236	Asyndeton	omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words	11
14724206237	blank verse	Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter	12
14724206238	cacophony	A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds	13
14724206239	Caesura	a strong pause within a line of verse	14
14724206240	Catharsis	the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.	15
14724206241	claim	assert or affirm strongly	16
14724206242	colloquial	Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing	17
14724206243	Comedy	light and humorous drama with a happy ending	18
14724206244	Conceit	A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects.	19
14724206245	Consonance	Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity.	20