AP Language arts Flashcards

4800951237	Metaphor	A figure of speech makes a comparison between two unlike things. An implied comparison.	0
4800956223	Simile	Expresses comparison using like or as.	1
4800960156	Allusion	A reference to an historical or literary person, place, or event.	2
4800965634	Hyperbole	Exaggeration for effect.	3
4801019934	Onomatopoeia	Using words to imitate sounds.	4
4801020854	Oxymoron	Words that contradict each other.	5
4801023086	Paradox	A statement that seems to be contradictory but is true. I laughed until I cried	6
4801027367	Personification	Giving human qualities to inanimate objects.	7
4801035157	Symbol	An object stands for an abstract idea.	8
4801036231	Alliteration	Reputation of initial consonant sounds.	9
4801040877	Consonance	Like alliteration but in the middle or ending of the words.	10
4801075470	Assonance	The repetition of a vowel sound within words. Used to give musical quality.	11
4802932146	Synesthesia	The description of one kind of sense in terms of another. "Her blouse was a cool green*	12
4802936869	Syntax	Grammatical rules governing word order. It's rather a mystery	13
4802940003	Imagery	May not be a mental "pictures" but may appeal to senses other than sight.	14
4802944017	Diction	Word choice used in a literary work.	15
4802945300	Tone	Term usually designating the mood or atmosphere of a work.	16
4802948746	Metonymy	A figure of speech that replaces the name of one thing with the name of something closely associated with it. * The bottle for beer*	17
4802953269	Synecdoche	A special kind of metonymy in which something is referred to indirectly by naming some part of it.	18
4802956124	Litotes	An affirmation made indirectly by denying its opposite usually with an effect of understatement. Not uncommon	19
4802963407	Euphemism	Substitution of a mild, indirect or vague term for one considered more harsh or offensive.	20
4802966030	Anaphora	Repetition of a word or phase repeated in successive lines, clauses or sentences.	21
4802970258	Apostrophe	Rhetoric where the speaker addresses an absent person or inanimate object.	22
4802973540	Chiasmus	ABBA pattern.	23
4802978416	Periodic Sentence	A long sentence in which the completion of the syntax and sense is delayed until the end.	24
4802984765	Tautology	To repeat oneself without purpose.	25
4802986697	Aphorism	Statement of general principle condensing much wisdom into a few words.	26
4803001567	Asyndeton	The absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence.	27
4803001568	Polysyndeton	Using several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might e omitted.	28