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| 9637232749 | allegory | A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself; characters have meanings outside themselves. |  | 0 |
| 9637232750 | anecdote | A brief story told in order to make a larger point; the event/incident itself helps speaker promote a related idea. |  | 1 |
| 9637232751 | aphorism | A concise statement designed to make a point or illustrate a commonly held belief. |  | 2 |
| 9637232752 | allusion | A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. |  | 3 |
| 9637232753 | asyndeton | Commas used (with no conjunction) to separate a series of words; speeds up flow of sentence. X, Y, Z as opposed to X, Y, and Z. |  | 4 |
| 9637232754 | alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds. |  | 5 |
| 9637232755 | anaphora | Repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences. |  | 6 |
| 9637232756 | antithesis | The direct opposite, a sharp contrast (ex: Whereas he was fractious, I was calm). |  | 7 |
| 9637232757 | apostrophe | A figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply (ex: Oh, love, where have you gone?). |  | 8 |
| 9637232758 | anadiplosis | Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause. |  | 9 |
| 9637232759 | appeal to pathos | When a writer appeals to readers' emotions to excite and involve them in an argument. |  | 10 |
| 9637232760 | appeal to logos | Using logic or facts to appeal to audience. |  | 11 |
| 9637232761 | appeal to ethos | All about the speaker; appeal to Credibility. |  | 12 |
| 9637232762 | anachronism | Something that is not in its correct historical time; a mistake in chronology, such as by assigning a person or event to the wrong time period. |  | 13 |
| 9637232763 | analogy | A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way. |  | 14 |
| 9637232764 | audience | One's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed. |  | 15 |
| 9637232765 | assonance | Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity. |  | 16 |
| 9637232766 | antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. The AP language exam occasionally asks for this of a given pronoun in a long, complex sentence or in a group of sentences; every one of this refers back to a previous noun/pronoun (Ex: the car he wanted was a green one. - the antecedent of "one" is "car"). |  | 17 |
| 9637232767 | appositive | A noun phrase that modifies the noun set next to it., A noun or noun substitute that is placed directly next to the noun it is describing (ex: My student, Sidney, makes me want to adopt a child). |  | 18 |
