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Literature Terms
Literature Terms for Hamlet AP Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Paradox | Ideas that are contradictory to one another, yet when placed together hold significant value on several levels. |
| Oxymoron | Literary device that allows the author to use contradictory, contrasting concepts placed together in a manner that actually ends up making sense in a strange, and slightly complex manner. |
| Leitmotif | A recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation |
| Invective | Insulting, abusive or highly critical language. |
| Synecdoche | Literary device that uses a part of something to refer to the whole or device versa. |
| Parady | An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect. |
| Hyperbole | A literary device wherein the author uses specific words and phrases that exaggerate and over emphasize the basic crux of the statement in order to produce a grander, more noticeable effect. |
| Onomatopoeia | Words whose very sound is very close to he sound they are meant to depict. |
| Pun | A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings. |
| Analogy | A literary device that helps to establish a relationship based on similarities between two concepts or ideas. |
| Simile | A figure of speech involving the comparison of the one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid. It always uses the words like or as. |
| Metonymy | It refers to the practice of not using the formal word for an object or subject and instead referring to it by using another word that intricately linked to the formal name or word. |
| Epigram | A pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way. A short poem, especially satirical one, having a witty or ingenious ending. |
| Trochee | A foot consisting of one long or stressed syllable followed by one short or unstressed. |
| Expletive | An oath or swear word; a word or phrase used to fill out a sentence or a line of verse without adding to the sense. |
| Scatology | An interest in or preoccupation with excrement and excretion obscene literature that is concerned with excrement and excretion. |
| Understatement | A literary device refers to the practice of drawing attention to a fact that is already obvious and noticeable. It is usually done by way of sarcasm, irony, wryness, or any other form of dry humor. |
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Mrs. Munson
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