7231175091 | Diction | Word choice, particularly as an element of style | 0 | |
7231176357 | Abstract Language | Language describing ideas and qualities (courage, faith, hubris, etc.) rather than observable or specific things, people, or places | 1 | |
7231177834 | Concrete Language | 2 | ||
7231177835 | Connotation | Rather than the dictionary definition, association suggested by a word; implied meaning rather than literal or Denotation. (Some words have Positive Connotations (fragrance, slender, studious), and some words have Negative Connotations (odor, scrawny, nerdy) | 3 | |
7231182954 | Denotation | The specific, exact meaning of a word, independent of its implications; opposite of connotation. | 4 | |
7231183916 | Alliteration | The recurrence of initial consonant sounds | 5 | |
7231186097 | Onomatopoeia | The use of words that sound like what they mean | 6 | |
7231187758 | Oxymoron | A rhetorical antithesis; a figure of speech composed of contradictory words or phrases | 7 | |
7231188873 | Repetition | Word or phrase used two or more times in close proximity | 8 | |
7231192561 | Epizeuxis | repetition of one word for emphasis | 9 | |
7231195737 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row | 10 | |
7231199095 | Epistrophe | Repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences | 11 | |
7231204129 | Symploce | Repetition of one word or phrase at the beginning and another word or phrase at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences | 12 | |
7231205601 | Anadiplosis | Repetition of the last word of one phrase, clause, or sentence at or very near the beginning of the next | 13 | |
7231211761 | Diacope | Repetition of a word or phrase after an intervening word or phrase as a method of emphasis | 14 | |
7231214773 | Epanalepsis | Repetition of the beginning word of a clause or sentence at the end | 15 | |
7231222102 | Parenthetical Expression | A word, phrase, or whole sentence inserted as an aside in the middle of another sentence | 16 |
AP English Language Terminology Flashcards
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