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AP english vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| allegory | a story with characters that represent ideas or concepts (animal farm) |
| oxymoron | contradictory combination of words (only morons use oxymorons) |
| shrewd | keen awareness, intellignece, sense of the practical (Sharp Henry Read Every Word in the Dictionary) |
| metonymy | substituting another name for a person or object (MISS-Metonymy Is Substituting Seamlessly) |
| allusion | indirect reference to something else like art, literature (allusion meets conclusion) |
| pessimism | see only the bad, undesired outcomes (glass half empty) |
| cynicism | looking at the bad side of things and not the good (ex. Dr. House) |
| Ellipses | omitting words... (kiss the cow's llipses) |
| understatement | author assigns less significance to event or thing than it deserves (tornado outside--->"it's a bit windy") |
| hyperbole | exaggerate for emphasis (he is like a billion years old) |
| euphemism | the use of less offensive words in place of harsh phrases (departed or passed away instead of died) |
| apostrophe | address an absent person or object as if it is alive and would reply (our imaginary friend apostrophe) |
| conceit | fanciful metaphor (fanciful king) ex. "shall i compare thee to a summers day?" |
| litote | understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negative of the contrary (not a bad idea) |
| colloquial | informal conversation (coll=call someone on the phone) |
| pedantic | lack of common sense, take things literally (bookworm) |
| nostalgic | longing for things in the past (nos |
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