7254925424 | Inference | to come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence found in the text | 0 | |
7254928406 | Invective | An emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language. | 1 | |
7254929629 | Irony | A contrast between expectation and reality | 2 | |
7477206770 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts | 3 | |
7477208771 | Litotes | A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite. EX: he is no fool | 4 | |
7477208772 | Loose Sentence | one in which the main clause comes first, followed by further dependent grammatical units | 5 | |
7477210070 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as | 6 | |
7477212854 | Metonymy | substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it | 7 | |
7477212855 | Mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader | 8 | |
7477212856 | Narrative | The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events. | 9 | |
7477217699 | Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents. | 10 | |
7477217700 | Oxymoron | It is a figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect. | 11 | |
7477219798 | Paradox | a statement that seems contradictory or absurd, but is actually valid or true | 12 | |
7477221791 | Parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 13 |
AP Language Test 3 Words Flashcards
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