This is a review of terminology assigned over the summer for students beginning AP Language and Composition.
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| 31538094 | anaphora | repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences | |
| 31538095 | aphorism | a brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life | |
| 31538096 | asyndeton | the lack of a conjunction between coordinate words, phrases, or clauses | |
| 31538097 | chiasmus | a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases | |
| 31538098 | epistrophe | the repetition of a word or words at the end of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences | |
| 31538099 | loose sentence | a type of sentence in which the main idea (independent clause) comes first, followed by dependent grammatical structures such as phrases and clauses | |
| 31538100 | metonymy | a figure of speech in which a person, place or thing is referred to by something closely associated with it | |
| 31538101 | parallelism | keeping ideas of equal importance in similar grammatical form | |
| 31538102 | periodic sentence | a sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end (This independent clause is preceded by a phrase or clause that cannot stand alone.) | |
| 31538103 | polysyndeton | the repetition of a conjunction in a series of coordinate words, phrases, or clauses | |
| 31538104 | predicate adjective | an adjective following a linking verb that describes the subject | |
| 31538105 | predicate nominative | a noun or pronoun that follows a linking verb and refers to the same person or thing as the subject of the verb | |
| 31538106 | rhetorical question | a question that is asked merely for effect and does not expect a reply (the answer is assumed) | |
| 31538107 | syllogism | a three-step form of reasoning that employs deduction - The first premise is a major premise, the second is minor, and they lead to a sound conclusion. | |
| 31538108 | synecdoche | understanding one thing for another; the use of a part for the whole, or the whole for the part |
