A quick review for Carlson's AP Language exam.
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| 2556305122 | Alliteration | use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse | 0 | |
| 2556305123 | Allusion | mention of a widely-known item in popular culture | 1 | |
| 2556305124 | Anachronism | something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred | 2 | |
| 2556305125 | Anaphora | repetition of a word or phrase as the beginning of successive clauses | 3 | |
| 2556305126 | Antithesis | the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance | 4 | |
| 2556305128 | Asyndeton | When the conjunctions (such as "and" or "but") that would normally connect a string of words, phrases, or clauses are omitted from a sentence | 5 | |
| 2556305130 | Euphemism | an inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive | 6 | |
| 2556305131 | Fable | a short moral story | 7 | |
| 2556305133 | Hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration | 8 | |
| 2556305134 | Imagery | a description of items using the 5 senses | 9 | |
| 2556305135 | Irony | incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs | 10 | |
| 2556305136 | Jargon | specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject | 11 | |
| 2556305137 | Juxtaposition | the act of positioning close together (or side by side) | 12 | |
| 2556305140 | Metaphor | a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity | 13 | |
| 2556305142 | Oxymoron | conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence') | 14 | |
| 2556305145 | Pun | a humorous play on words | 15 | |
| 2556305146 | Rhetorical Question | a statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered | 16 | |
| 2556305147 | Satire | mockery that is used to expose a flaw in a person or social convention | 17 | |
| 2556305150 | Symbol | something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible | 18 | |
| 2556305153 | Syntax | the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences | 19 | |
| 2556305154 | Theme | a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work | 20 | |
| 2556305155 | Tone | A writer's attitude toward the subject | 21 | |
| 2556305156 | Understatement | A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is. | 22 | |
| 2556313067 | Personification | attributing human characteristics to an inhuman object | 23 | |
| 2556313920 | Parallelism | a set of similarly structures words, sentences, or clauses | 24 | |
| 2556315125 | Polysyndeton | the excessive use of conjunctions in a sentence | 25 | |
| 2556315612 | Ethos | an appeal to the audience by way of the speaker's authority | 26 | |
| 2556316908 | Logos | an appeal to the audience by way of logic | 27 | |
| 2556316909 | Pathos | an appeal to the audience by way of emotion | 28 | |
| 2556318473 | Repetition | the use of words over and over for rhetorical effect | 29 | |
| 2556318863 | antithesis | the placing of opposing ideas or words side-by-side to emphasize the difference between them | 30 |
