AP LANGUAGE AND COMP VOCAB Flashcards

237424609	Alliteration	Repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequences	0
237424610	Allusion	Brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art.	1
237424611	Anaphora	Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines	2
237424612	Antimetabole	Repetition of words in reverse order.	3
237424613	Antithesis	Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction.	4
237424614	Archaic Diction	Old- Fashioned or outdated choice of words	5
237424615	Asyndeton	Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words	6
237424617	Cumulative Sentences	Sentence that completes that main idea at the beginning of the sentence, and then builds and adds on	7
237424618	Hortative Sentences	Sentence that exhorts, advises, calls to action	8
237424771	Imperative Sentence	Sentence used to command, enjoin, implore, or entreat	9
237424772	Inversion	Inverted order of words in a sentence	10
237424774	Juxtaposition	Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparsions or contrasts	11
237424911	Metaphor	Figure of speech that says one thing is another in order to explain by comparsion	12
237424912	Metonymy	Using a single feature to represent the whole	13
237424913	Oxymoron	Paradoxial juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another	14
237425093	Parallelism	Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	15
237425094	Periodic Sentences	Sentences whose main clause is withheld until the end	16
237425095	Personification	Attribution of a life like quality to an inanimate object or idea	17
237425097	Rhetorical Question	Figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer	18
237425098	Zeugma	Use of two different words in a grammatically similar way but producing different, often incongruous meanings	19