AP Language: Rhetorical Devices Flashcards

6579566613	parallelism	similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	0
6579566614	isocolon	scheme of parallel structure that occurs when the parallel elements are similar not only in grammatical structure but also in length	1
6579566615	antithesis	the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure	2
6579566616	anastrophe	inversion of the natural or usual word order	3
6579566617	parenthesis	insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence	4
6579566618	apposition	placing side by side two coordinate elements, the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of the first. In grammar, this is the appositive or verbal cluster	5
6579566619	ellipsis	deliberate omission of a word or words that are readily implied by the context	6
6579566620	asyndeton	deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of related clauses	7
6579566621	polysyndeton	deliberate use of many conjunctions	8
6579566622	apostrophe	the direct address of a person or an abstract quality, whether present or not	9
6579566623	alliteration	repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words	10
6579566624	assonance	the repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words	11
6579566625	anaphora	repetition of the same word or groups of words at the beginnings of successive clauses	12
6579566626	epistrophe	repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses	13
6579566627	epanalepsis	repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause	14
6579566628	anadiplosis	repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause	15
6579566629	climax	arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing importance	16
6579566630	antimetabole	repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order	17
6579566631	chiasmus	reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses	18
6579566632	polyptoton	repetition of words derived from the same root	19
6579566633	metaphor	implied comparison between two things of unlike nature	20
6579566634	simile	explicit comparison between two things of unlike nature	21
6820410528	sentenia	quotation, maxim, aphorism, or wise saying	22
6820412686	synecdoche	figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole	23
6820415944	metonymy	substitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is actually meant	24
6820422799	antanaclasis	repetition of a word in two different senses	25
6820425814	paronomasia	use of words alike in sound but different in meaning	26
6820444067	syllepsis	use of a word understood differently in relation to two or more other words, which it modifies or governs	27
6820446288	anthimeria	the substitution of one part of speech for another	28
6820451710	periphrasis (autonomasia)	substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name or of a proper name for a quality associated with the name	29
6820460472	personification (prosopesis)	investing abstractions or inanimate objects with human qualities	30
6820464773	hyperbole	the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect	31
6820470959	litotes	deliberate use of understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in "not bad at all."	32
6820477889	onomatopoeia	use of words whose sound echoes the sense	33
6820483275	rhetorical question	asking a question, not for the purpose of eliciting an answer but for the purpose of asserting or denying something obliquely	34
6820489386	irony	use of a word in such a way as to convey a meaning opposite to the literal meaning of the word	35
6820497472	oxymoron	the yoking of two terms which are ordinarily contradictory	36
6820500545	paradox	an apparently contradictory statement that nevertheless contains a measure of truth	37
6820506413	zuegma	unexpected items in a sentence are connected by one shared word, usually in which one verb governs several words, or clauses, each in a different sense	38