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AP Lit Terms
Challenging AP Lit Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Adage | a familiar proverb or wise saying |
| Ad hominem | in an argument, this is an attack on the person rather than on the opponent's ideas |
| asyndeton | a construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions |
| bathos | insincere or overly sentimental quality of writing/speech intended to evoke pity |
| chiasmus | A pattern of balanced sentences which involves a reversal (ask not what your country can do for you...) |
| elegy | a sad or mournful poem |
| hubris | excessive pride |
| jargon | specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject |
| litotes | understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary) |
| malapropism | the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar |
| non sequitur | (logic) a conclusion that does not follow from the premises |
| cacophony | harsh, non-melodic, unpleasant sounding arrangement of words |
| euphony | pleasant, easy to articulate words |
| enjambment | describes a line of poetry in which the sense and grammatical construction continues on to the next line |
| anaphora | repetition of the same word or words at the start of two or more lines |
| paradox | statement or situation containing seemingly contradictory elements |
| synecdoche | symbolism; the part signifies the whole, or the whole the part (all hands on board) |
| Euphemism | The substitution of an agreeable inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant |
| Malapropism | The usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase'; especially the use of a word sounding somewhat like the one intended but ludicrously wrong in context |
| Aesthetics | "Philosophical investigation into the nature of beauty and the perception of beauty especially in the arts; the theory of art or artistic taste.""" |
| Asyndeton | The omission of a conjunction from a list ('chips beans peas vinegar salt pepper') |
| Deus Ex Machina | "An unrealistic or unexpected intervention to rescue the protagonists or resolve the conflict. The term means ""The god out of the machine"" and refers to stage machinery." |
| Exegesis | "Critical interpretation of a text especially a biblical text; from the Greek ex- + egeisthai meaning ""to lead out." |
| Homily | An inspirational saying or platitude. |
| Malapropism | "is an incorrect usage of a word usually with comic effect. ""He is the very pineapple of politeness.""" |
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