AP Language Flashcards

3828171112	Anaphora	repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines. ex: not a call to bear arms, though arms we need - not a call to battle, though embattled we are	0
3828171487	Antimetabole	repetition of words in reverse order ex: Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country	1
3828171774	Antithesis	opposition or contrast of words or ideas in a balanced or parallel construction ex: We shall support any friend, oppose any foe	2
3828172170	Asyndeton	omission of conjunctions between coordinate clauses, phrases, or words ex: We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty	3
3828172817	Cumulative sentences	completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on	4
3828173516	Hortative sentence	sentence that exhorts, advises, calls to action	5
3828173842	Imperative sentence	used to command, enjoin, implore, or entreat	6
3828174525	Metaphor	says one thing is another to explain comparison	7
3828174526	Metonymy	using a single feature to represent a whole ex: In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course	8
3828175695	Zeugma	use of 2 different words in a gramatically similar way but producing different, often incongruous meanings ex: we rode MAX to Portland, and to freedom.	9