AP LITERATURE | Unit #1 Literary Terms
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Epanalepsis
A form of repetition where a word or phrase is repeated at the beginning and end
“Common sense is not so common.”
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Epithet
a special title given to a person that describes a characteristic about them
“The Great Emancipator”
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Hypotaxis
connecting phrase or word
“…so that…” , '“…because…”
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Motonymy
associated with the whole
“Bringing home the bacon” — bacon is associated with money
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Polysyndeton
A form of listing that involve connecting related words/phrases with “and”
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Litotoes
describing something positive with something that usually has a negative connotation
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Soliloquy
a long speech
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Synecdoche
part of a whole
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Vernacular
dialect
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Mixed Metaphor
metaphor gone crazy
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