AP Language Flashcards

2917182493	Alliteration	the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of closely related words	0
2917182494	Allusion	referring back to something historical in the past	1
2917183757	Analogy	a comparison between two things for the purpose of explanation	2
2917183758	Anaphora	the repetition of the beginning of a sentence in order to achieve an effect	3
2917184860	Anecdote	a short or amusing story about a person or incident	4
2917184861	Antithesis	a person or thing that is the direct opposite of another person or thing	5
2917185998	Aphorism	an observation that holds a general truth	6
2917185999	Apostrophe	when the author addresses a missing person within the piece of literature	7
2917191488	Ethos	an appeal to ethics within a piece of literature	8
2917191489	Pathos	an appeal to emotions	9
2917191490	Logos	an appeal to logic	10
2917192986	Asyndeton	the absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence	11
2917192987	Complex Sentence	a sentence containing a subordinate clause or clauses	12
2917194633	Compound Sentence	a sentence with more than one subject	13
2917194634	Cumulative Sentence	a type of sentence in which the main idea is elaborated by the successive addition of phrases	14
2917196249	Declarative Sentence	a sentence in a form of a statement	15
2917196250	Diction	word choice	16
2917196251	Hyperbole	extreme exaggeration	17
2917197941	Imperative Sentence	a form of a sentence that is expressing a command	18
2917197942	Interrogative Sentence	one that asks questions	19
2917199018	Inversion	the act of inverting something	20
2917199019	Irony	an event that seems contrary to what you would expect	21
2917200092	Juxtapostition	the fact of two things being placed side by side with contrary effect	22
2917200093	Metaphor	comparison without using "like" or "as"	23
2917201426	Metonymy	the substitution of a name of an attribute for that of the thing meant	24
2917203276	Oxymoron	a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction	25
2917203277	Paradox	a statement or proposition that leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory	26
2917204462	Parallelism	the state of being parallel or of corresponding in some way	27
2917205473	Rhetorical Question	open ended question	28
2917205474	Simile	using "like" or "as" to compare two different things	29
2917205492	Syntax	the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language	30
2917207312	Tone	the authors attitude towards the subject	31
2917207313	Understatement	the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is	32
2917211942	Zeugma	a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses	33