6681514618 | Compound | Contains TWO independent clauses | 0 | |
6681514619 | Complex | Contains ONE independent clause and one or more dependent clauses | 1 | |
6681514620 | Compound-Complex | Contains TWO or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses | 2 | |
6681514622 | Prepositional Phrase | A group of words that includes a preposition to indicate relations of time, place, responsibility, and motivation; a noun/pronoun follows the preposition | 3 | |
6681514624 | Participial Phrase | A modifier containing a present or past participle | 4 | |
6681514625 | Absolute Phrase | A modifier containing a noun or pronoun and a present or past participle | 5 | |
6681514626 | Infinitive Phrase | A form of a verb following the word to and acts as a noun, an adjective, or an adverb; a verb follows the preposition to | 6 | |
6681514627 | Appositive Phrase | A modifying noun or pronoun placed next to a noun or pronoun, off-set by commas, to provide additional information | 7 | |
6681514628 | Gerund Phrase | A form or a verb- with its modifiers and complements- that acts as a noun | 8 | |
6681514629 | Chiasmus | The repetition and arrangement of two key terms in a sentence using the ABBA pattern | 9 | |
6681514630 | Asyndeton | The omission of conjunctions in a series of related clauses | 10 | |
6681514631 | Zeugma | Includes several similar rhetorical devices, all involving grammatically correct linkage of two or more parts of speech by another part of speech | 11 | |
6681514632 | Scesis Onomaton | Emphasizes an idea by expressing it in a string of generally synonymous phrases or statements | 12 | |
6681514633 | Syllepsis | A kind of ellipsis in which one word is understood differently in relation to two or more other words, which modifies or governs | 13 | |
6681514634 | Polysyndeton | The deliberate use of many conjunctions for emphasis, a feeling of multiplicity, energetic enumeration, and building up | 14 | |
6681514635 | Anadiplosis | Repeats the last word of one phrase, clause, or sentence at or very near the beginning of the next. Can be generated in series for the sake of beauty or to give a sense of logical progression | 15 | |
6681514636 | Epizeuxis | Repetition of one word for emphasis | 16 | |
6681514637 | Anaphora | Repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses, sentences or lines | 17 | |
6681514638 | Epistrophe | Ending a series of lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences, with the same word or words | 18 | |
6681514639 | Antanaclasis | A play on words in which a key word is repeated in a different, often contrary sense | 19 | |
6681514640 | Polyptoton | A rhetorical term for repetition of words derived from the same root but with different endings | 20 | |
9320753115 | Periodic | The main idea or most important information is not revealed until the END of the sentence | 21 | |
9320757721 | Loose | The sentence reveals the key information RIGHT AWAY and unfolds loosely after that | 22 | |
9320767606 | Antithesis | Opposition of words (often) in a parallel construction | 23 | |
9320772580 | Isocolon | A succession of clauses or sentences of approximately equal length and corresponding structure | 24 | |
9320782395 | Amplification | The arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing importance | 25 | |
9320790117 | Anastrophe | Violate normal syntactical arrangement (S-V-O) for emphasis | 26 |
AP Language: Composition Syntax Flashcards
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