11083389253 | Coordination | placing two phrases or clauses on an equal level so that they receive equal emphasis | 0 | |
11083392268 | Subordination | making one idea in a sentence (the dependent clause) less important than another (the independent clause) | 1 | |
11083394532 | Parenthesis | inserting some verbal unit that interrupts the normal flow of the sentence. | 2 | |
11083399028 | Catalogue | listing three of more items | 3 | |
11083403485 | Juxtaposition | placing elements next to each other to create some relationship between the ideas they express | 4 | |
11083411108 | Parallelism | using the same grammatical structure to express similar ideas | 5 | |
11083414309 | Balance | a specialized form of parallelism in which the sentence or some part of it can literally be divided into halves at a semicolon or coordinating conjunction, with exactly the same structure in each half | 6 | |
11083425366 | Antithesis | using a similar form in two parts of a sentence to express contrasting meanings | 7 | |
11083431488 | Repetition | using the same word, phrase, or clause again to place emphasis on that idea | 8 | |
11083439121 | Doubling | repeating the same idea by adding a conjunction and the same word or a synonym | 9 | |
11083449432 | Incremental repetition | repeating the same phrase but with a new twist, emphasizing the idea | 10 | |
11083456245 | Anaphora | repeating the same word or group of words at the beginnings of successive clauses | 11 | |
11083460222 | Chiasmus | reversing the grammatical order to successive clauses | 12 | |
11083469939 | Antimetabole | repeating the exact words in reverse order in successive clauses | 13 | |
11083473481 | Anadiplosis | repeating last word of clause at beginning of next clause | 14 | |
11083476596 | Epanalepsis | repeating the initial word or phrase of a clause at the end | 15 | |
11083482989 | Epistrophe | repeating the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses | 16 | |
11083487525 | Asyndeton | omitting conjunctions in a series of related clauses | 17 | |
11083491605 | Polysyndeton | using conjunctions between every item in a list, including clauses. | 18 |
AP Language - Syntax Devices Flashcards
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