AP Language 2 Flashcards

795214198	Alliteration	Repetition of the same sound beginning several words or syllables in sequence.	0
475855875	Allusion	Brief reference to a person, event, or place (real or fictitious) or to a work of art	1
584609832	Anaphora	Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines	2
197495557	Antimetabole	Repetition of words in reverse order	3
420546550	Antithesis	Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction	4
847338014	Archaic diction	Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words	5
1015527257	Asyndeton	Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words	6
166007484	Cumulative sentence	Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on	7
653261897	Hortative sentence	Sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action	8
297314640	Imperative sentence	Sentence used to command or enjoin	9
119663813	Inversion	Inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order.)	10
351118606	Juxtaposition	Placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences	11
779792768	Metaphor	Figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as	12
997810500	Oxymoron	Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another	13
584460564	Parallelism	Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	14
191396027	Periodic sentence	Sentence whose main clause is with held until the end	15
341821227	Personification	Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea.	16
132268727	Rhetorical question	Figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer	17
397413747	Synecdoche	Figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole	18
1046498886	Zeugma	Use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings	19