AP Lit Terms 3 BHS

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AP lit 18-34 BHS
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  1. anaphora
    repetition of a word or phrase to begin successive clauses
  2. antithesis
    exact opposite
  3. apostrophe
    an address to an absent or imaginary person
  4. asyndeton
    omission of conjunctions where they would normally be used
  5. chiasmus
    inversion in the second of two parallel phrases
  6. connotation
    an idea that is implied or suggested
  7. epithet
    descriptive word or phrase
  8. euphemism
    an inoffensive expression substituted for an offensive one
  9. hyperbole
    extravagant exaggeration
  10. litotes
    understatement for rhetorical effect
  11. metonymy
    substituting the name of a feature for the name of the thing
  12. oxymoron
    conjoined contradictory terms
  13. pun
    a humorous play on words
  14. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
  15. synecdoche
    using part of something to refer to the whole thing
  16. understatement
    something said in a restrained way for ironic contrast
Created on Mon Aug 12 19:51:04 EDT 2013 (updated Thu Oct 24 09:37:56 EDT 2013)

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