AP LIT VOCAB

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alliteration

  1. the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

    ā€œsweet birds sangā€

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allusion

an implied or indirect reference to a person, event, or thing or to a part of another text. ā€œRose is a real Einsteinā€

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apostrophe

An address to a dead or absent person, or personification as if he or she were present.

ā€œO Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?ā€

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assonance

The repetition of vowel sounds without repeating consonants; sometimes called vowel rhyme.

ā€œWith its leaping, and deep, cool murmurā€) or ā€œAnd shout into the ridges of the windā€.

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cacophony

Harsh or discordant sounds, often the result of repetition and combination of consonants within a group of words. (Like horns and yelling in a traffic accident in real life!)

ā€œWhat this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore.ā€

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consonance

A resemblance in sound between two words, or an initial rhyme.

ā€œShe seLLS seashELLSs by the seashoreā€

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euphony

combining of words to create a pleasing sound.

"So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."

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feminine rhyme

a rhyme between stressed syllables followed by one or more unstressed syllables.

for example: ocean, motion - other,mother

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hyperbole

exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

ā€œI slept for a week after that tough practiceā€

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internal rhyme

a rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next.

ā€œI went to town to buy a gown. / I took the car, and it wasn't far.ā€

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masculine rhyme

a rhyme of final stressed syllables

for example: cat , mat (simple)

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metaphor

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

She's got a heart of gold. That party was the bomb.

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metonymy

the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant

ā€œlend me your ears,ā€ ā€œearsā€ is substituted for ā€œattention.ā€

ā€œWhite houseā€ = president

ā€œuncleā€™s wedding bandā€ = marriage

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onomatopoeia

the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

"splish-splash" ā€œsizzleā€

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paradox

a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.

''I must be cruel, only to be kind''.

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personification

the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

ā€œthe grass dancedā€ ā€œalarm clocks yellsā€

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simile

a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid.

ā€œas cold as iceā€ ā€œlight as a featherā€

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synecdoche

a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa (part to whole or whole to part)
EXAMPLE: Jack got some new wheels! = Jack got a new car!

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synesthesia

an author's blending of human senses to describe an object.

ā€œloud dressā€ ā€œchilly gazeā€

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understatement

the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.

example: a person who is bleeding heavily might say, ā€œIt's just a scratch,ā€

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