the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices
AP Literature Vocabulary

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English
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12th Grade
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Hard
Sarah Williams
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
satire
tragic flaw
parody
personification
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
beginning an epic or other narrative by plunging into a crucial situation that is part of a related chain of events
aphorism
euphemism
enjambment
in media res
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
a word or expression used in lieu of a harsher alternative
cadence
motif
euphemism
irony
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
an audience's awareness of the situation in which a work's characters exist differs substantially from that of the characters'
dramatic irony
irony
situational irony
verbal irony
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
a figure of speech that references a person, place, thing, or event
aside
hubris
allusion
euphemism
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or stressed syllables
alliteration
parallelism
synecdoche
rhapsody
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
a narrator whose credibility is compromised
narrator
tragic flaw
unreliable narrator
anthropomorphism
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