AP Language vocab 4 Flashcards

15953303717	Litotes	A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite	0
15953305937	dead metaphor	a metaphor that has been used so often that the comparison is no longer vivid	1
15953308315	Apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.	2
15953313598	lechery	unrestrained indulgence in sexual activity	3
15953315775	prattler	someone who speaks in a childish way	4
15953317236	ulcerous	corrupt, rotting	5
15953319575	brindle	having a gray or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring	6
15953328012	cosmic irony	Type of irony where it seems that God or fate is manipulating events so as to inspire false hopes, which are inevitably dashed.	7
15953330720	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	8
15953331670	dramatic irony	when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't	9
15953332931	situational irony	irony involving a situation in which actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected.	10