4969646315 | Alliteration | Repetition of initial consants in 2 or more adjacent words | 0 | |
4969646316 | Anadiplosis | Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause | 1 | |
4969646317 | Anaphora | Repetition of same words/groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses | 2 | |
4969646318 | Anastrophe | Inversion of the natural or usual word order | 3 | |
4969646319 | Antithesis | The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas | 4 | |
4969646320 | Antaclanasis | Repetition of a word in 2 different senses | 5 | |
4969646321 | Anthimeria | The substitution of one part of speech for another | 6 | |
4969646322 | Antimetabole | Repetition of words, in succesive clauses, in reverse grammatical order | 7 | |
4969646323 | Apposistion | Placing side by side the coordinate elements. The second of which serves as an explanation of modification of the first | 8 | |
4969646324 | Assonance | Repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words | 9 | |
4969646325 | Asyndeton | Deliberate omission of comjunctions between a series of related clauses | 10 | |
4969646326 | Climax | Arranagement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing inportance | 11 | |
4969646327 | Ellipsis | The deliberite omission of a word or words that are readily implied by the context. | 12 | |
4969646328 | Epanelipsis | Repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occured at the beginning of the same clause. | 13 | |
4969646329 | Epistrophe | Repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses | 14 | |
4969646330 | Irony | Use of a word in such a way as to convey a meaning opposite to the literal meaning of the word | 15 | |
4969646331 | Isocolon | Scheme of parallel structure that occurs whem parallels are similar not only in structure but in length | 16 | |
4969646332 | Litotes | Deliberate use of understatement | 17 | |
4969646333 | Metaphor | Implied comparison between 2 things of unlike nature | 18 | |
4969646334 | Metonymy | Substitution of some attributive or siggestive words for what is actually meant | 19 | |
5743066810 | Chiasmus | Words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in the same or modified form | 20 |
AP Language Rhetorical Terms Flashcards
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