AP Terms for Romeo and Juliet
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Personification | giving human characteristics to non-human things |
| Allusion | a reference to another work of literature, person, or event |
| Hyperbole | a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect |
| Paradox | a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth |
| Symbol | an object that is used to represent something else (usually a larger, philosophical and more important idea) |
| Conceit | vanity or self-love; too high opinion of one's own value; extravagant metaphor (in poetry) |
| Repetition | repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis |
| Exclamation | a sentence that shows strong feeling. it ends with an exclamation point (!). |
| Assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity |
| Apostrophe | The direct addressing of a person, an inanimate entity, or an abstract quality as though it were present and listening. |
| Metaphor | comparison without using like or as |
| Euphemism | Not speaking directly to avoid unpleasantness. |
| Ironic | contrary to what is expected; containing irony |
| Simile | a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as') |
| Understatement | saying less than one means, for effect |
| Anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase as the beginning of successive clauses |
| Allegory | an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances |
| Litotes | understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary) |
| Internal Rhyme | a rhyme between words in the same line |
| End Rhyme | Rhyme that occurs at the end of two or more lines of poetry |
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