AP Language Chapter 2 Flashcards
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| 7299362641 | alliteration | Repetition of the same sound beginning several words or syllables in a sequence | 0 | |
| 7299362642 | allusion | Brief reference to a person, event, or place (real or fictitious) or to a work of art | 1 | |
| 7299362643 | anaphora | Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines | 2 | |
| 7299362644 | antimetabole | Repetition of words in reverse order. | 3 | |
| 7299362645 | antithesis | Opposition, or contrast, of ideas of words in a parallel construction | 4 | |
| 7299362646 | archaic diction | Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words | 5 | |
| 7299362647 | asyndeton | Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words | 6 | |
| 7299362648 | cumulative sentence | Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on | 7 | |
| 7299362649 | hortative sentence | Sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action | 8 | |
| 7299362650 | Imperative sentence | Sentence used to command or enjoin | 9 | |
| 7299362651 | inversion | Inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order.) | 10 | |
| 7299362652 | juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences | 11 | |
| 7299362653 | metaphor | Figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as | 12 | |
| 7299362654 | oxymoron | Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another | 13 | |
| 7299362655 | parallelism | Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 14 | |
| 7299362656 | periodic sentences | Sentences whose main clause is withheld until the end | 15 | |
| 7299362657 | personification | Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea | 16 | |
| 7299362658 | rhetorical question | Figure of speech in the form of a question posed for the rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer | 17 | |
| 7299362659 | synedoche | Figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole | 18 | |
| 7299362660 | zeugma | Use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings | 19 |
