237424609 | Alliteration | Repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequences | 0 | |
237424610 | Allusion | Brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art. | 1 | |
237424611 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines | 2 | |
237424612 | Antimetabole | Repetition of words in reverse order. | 3 | |
237424613 | Antithesis | Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction. | 4 | |
237424614 | Archaic Diction | Old- Fashioned or outdated choice of words | 5 | |
237424615 | Asyndeton | Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 6 | |
237424617 | Cumulative Sentences | Sentence that completes that main idea at the beginning of the sentence, and then builds and adds on | 7 | |
237424618 | Hortative Sentences | Sentence that exhorts, advises, calls to action | 8 | |
237424771 | Imperative Sentence | Sentence used to command, enjoin, implore, or entreat | 9 | |
237424772 | Inversion | Inverted order of words in a sentence | 10 | |
237424774 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparsions or contrasts | 11 | |
237424911 | Metaphor | Figure of speech that says one thing is another in order to explain by comparsion | 12 | |
237424912 | Metonymy | Using a single feature to represent the whole | 13 | |
237424913 | Oxymoron | Paradoxial juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another | 14 | |
237425093 | Parallelism | Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 15 | |
237425094 | Periodic Sentences | Sentences whose main clause is withheld until the end | 16 | |
237425095 | Personification | Attribution of a life like quality to an inanimate object or idea | 17 | |
237425097 | Rhetorical Question | Figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer | 18 | |
237425098 | Zeugma | Use of two different words in a grammatically similar way but producing different, often incongruous meanings | 19 |
AP LANGUAGE AND COMP VOCAB Flashcards
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