AP Language Vocabulary Flashcards

5164079933	Repetition	a word or phrase used two or more times in close proximity	0
5164081261	Rhetorical Question	a question that does not expect an explicit answer	1
5164083215	Colloquialism	a word or phrase (including slang) used in everyday conversation and informal writing, but that is often in appropriate in formal writing	2
5164087178	Allusion	a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. It does not describe in detail the person or thing to which it refers	3
5164095051	Anaphora	the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses	4
5164101583	Anecdote	a very short story that is significant to the topic at hand; usually adding personal knowledge or experience to the topic	5
5164105095	Imagery	description that focuses on the five senses	6
5164106642	Hyperbole	an extreme exaggeration	7
5164107814	Understatement	when a speaker or writer makes something seem less important than it truly is	8
5164110284	Polysyndeton	use of coordinating conjunctions like "and", "or", "but" and "nor" to join successive words, phrases or clauses in such a way that these conjunctions are even used where they might have been omitted	9
5164118792	Asydeton	words in a list are separated by commas and no conjunctions are used to join the words in a list	10
5164124270	Antithesis	the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure. the contrast may be in words or idea or both	11
5164131610	Oxymoron	the joining of two terms which are ordinarily contradictory	12
5164133888	Paradox	an apparently contradictory statement that nevertheless contains a measure of truth	13