AP Literature Rhetorical Devices Flashcards

4353752651	parallelism	similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	0
4353755191	isocolon	type of parallel structure that happens when parallel elements are similar in grammatical structure and length	1
4353757484	antithesis	the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, usually in parallel structure	2
4353765177	anastrophe	inversion of the natural or usual word order	3
4353765178	parenthesis	insertion of some verbal unit that interrupts the normal syntactical flow of the sentence	4
4353770030	apposition	two coordinate elements that are placed side by side, and the second is an explanation/modification of the first	5
4353773360	ellipsis	deliberate omission of a word or words which are implied by the context	6
4353775509	asyndeton	deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of related clauses	7
4353776737	polysyndeton	purposeful use of many conjuctions	8
4353778698	alliteration	repetition of consonants in two or more adjacent words	9
4353782642	assonance	repetition of similar vowel sounds, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words	10
4353783281	anaphora	repetition of the same word or groups of words in the beginnings of successive clauses	11
4353783912	epistrophe	repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses	12
4353788386	epanalepsis	repetition of a word at the end of a clause that was also the beginning word	13
4353794898	anadiplosis	repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the next clause	14
4353798376	climax	arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in order of increasing importance	15
4353802851	antimetabole	repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order	16
4353805470	chiasmus	reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses	17
4353809006	polyptoton	repetition of words derived from the same root	18
4353809533	metaphor	implied comparison between 2 things of unlike nature	19
4353813202	simile	explicit comparison between two things of unlike nature	20
4353814121	synecdoche	figure of speech in which a part stands for the whole	21
4353815040	metonymy	substitution of a suggestive word for what is actually meant	22
4353815672	antanaclasis	repetition of word in two different senses	23
4353816600	paronomasia	use of words alike in sound but different in meaning	24
4353817733	syllepsis	use of a word understood differently in relation to two or more other words	25
4353820722	anthimeria	substitution of one part of speech for another	26
4353820723	periphrasis	substitution of a descriptive word/phrase for a proper name associated with the word	27
4353823083	litotes	deliberate use of understatement	28
4353825112	oxymoron	the yoking of two terms which are ordinarily contradictory	29
4353825113	paradox	an apparently contradictory statement that nevertheless contains a measure of truth	30