5631744160 | Paranomasia | A rhetorical device that intentionally exploits the confusion between words with similar sounds but different meanings | 0 | |
5631744161 | Antanaclasis | type of wordplay where one word is used in two contrasting senses | 1 | |
5631747395 | Anaphora | repetition of words at the beginning of words or phrases | 2 | |
5631747396 | Epistrophe | the repetition of words at the end of phrases or sentences | 3 | |
5631755258 | Anadiplosis | the repetition of words so that the last word of a clause is the starting word of the next clause | 4 | |
5631757662 | Epanalepsis | the repetition at the end of a line that occurred at the beginning of the same line | 5 | |
5631981514 | Asyndeton | the omission of conjunction between phrases or words | 6 | |
5631984101 | Polysyndeton | uses several coordinating conjunctions used in succession | 7 | |
5631993541 | Anthimeria | using one part of speech as another part of speech | 8 | |
5631993542 | Polyptoton | using the repetition of a word in a different case in the same sentence | 9 | |
5631996957 | Isocolon | repetition of words, phrases, or clauses of the same grammatical structure | 10 | |
5631999506 | Antithesis | A device where two opposite ideals are put together to achieve a contrasting effect | 11 | |
5632003841 | Epanalepsis | repeats the phrase or word at the begginning of the sentence at the end of the sentence as well | 12 | |
5632006670 | Antimetabole | a phrase or sentence is repeated in reverse order | 13 | |
5632006671 | chiasmus | concepts of a phrase but not with the same words | 14 |
AP Language- Tropes and Schemes Flashcards
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