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Scarlet Lett. vocab
AP Test vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| verisimilitude | the appearance of truth; likelihood; probability |
| juxtaposition | placing close together or side by side, for comparison or contrast |
| anachronism | something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time |
| mondegreen | a word or phrase resulting from a misinterpretation of a word or phrase |
| malapropism | misusing words ridiculously, esp. by the confusion of words that are similar in sound |
| zeugma | the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each but in a different way |
| litotes | understatement, esp. that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary |