AP Literature: Final Exam Semester 1

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A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art

Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning

A comparison without using like or as

the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant

A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.

Personification

A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes

a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.

A comparison using "like" or "as"

A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa

exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

unstressed, unstressed, stressed

stressed, unstressed

stressed, unstressed, unstressed

3 feet per line

Masculine ending

a line that ends with a stressed syllable

Feminine ending

Term that refers to an unstressed extra syllable at the end of a line of iambic pentameter.

unstressed, stressed

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