AP language Flashcards
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| 4818411622 | Connotative | Containing suggested meaning | 0 | |
| 4818411623 | Monosyllabic | One syllable in length | 1 | |
| 4818411624 | Colloquial | Slang | 2 | |
| 4818411625 | Polysyllabic | More than one syllable in length | 3 | |
| 4818411626 | Formal | Literary | 4 | |
| 4818411627 | Denotative | Containing an exact meaning | 5 | |
| 4818411628 | Concrete | Specific | 6 | |
| 4818411629 | Abstract | General , or conceptual | 7 | |
| 4818411630 | Euphonious | Pleasant sounding | 8 | |
| 4818411631 | Cacophonous | Harsh, unpleasing sound | 9 | |
| 4818411632 | Trite | Common, banal, stereo-typed | 10 | |
| 4818411633 | Bombastic | High sounding, pompous, ostentatious | 11 | |
| 4818411634 | Vulgar | Coarse, indecent, tasteless | 12 | |
| 4818411635 | Pendantic | Didactic, scholastic, bookish | 13 | |
| 4818411636 | Pretentious | Pompous, guady inflated | 14 | |
| 4818411637 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses | 15 | |
| 4818411638 | Polysyndeton | Several conjuctions in n close succession | 16 | |
| 4818411639 | Antithesis | Two contrasting ideas put together | 17 | |
| 4818411640 | Rhetorical Question | A question that doesn't expect an answer | 18 | |
| 4818411641 | Asyndeton | The omission if conjuctions | 19 | |
| 4818411642 | Chiasmus | Reversal of the order of words in the second of two parallel phrases | 20 | |
| 4818411643 | Litotes | Understatement; affirmative is expresses by the negative | 21 | |
| 4818411644 | Parallelism | Show equal ideas | 22 | |
| 4818411645 | Zeugma | Word modifies two or more words | 23 | |
| 4818411646 | Allusion | Direct or indirect reference to something that is commonly known | 24 | |
| 4818411647 | Imagery | Language that appeals to the five senses | 25 | |
| 4818411648 | Paradox | Statement that appears to be contradictory but contains truth | 26 | |
| 4818411649 | Synedoche | Figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole | 27 | |
| 4818411650 | Apostrophe | Addressing an absent or imaginary person or object | 28 | |
| 4818411651 | Irony | Contrast to what is stated and what is meant | 29 | |
| 4818411652 | Oxymoron | Grouping of contradictory terms | 30 | |
| 4818411653 | Hyperbole | Using exaggeration or overstatement | 31 | |
| 4818411654 | Personification | Giving objects animal-like characteristics | 32 | |
| 4818411655 | Metonymy | Ap languageA figure of speech in which the name of an object is substituted fot another closely associated with it | 33 |