AP Language Flashcards

4742288276	Allegory	The device of using character/story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning.	0
4742288277	Alliteration	The repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more words.	1
4742288278	Allusion	A direct or indirect reference to something commonly known.	2
4742288279	Anaphora	Repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive ones of poetry.	3
4742288280	Antecedent	The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.	4
4742288281	Antimetabole	The repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen or contrast a certain point.	5
4742288282	Antithesis	The opposition or contrast of ideas; the direct opposite.	6
4742288283	Aphorism	A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle.	7
4742288284	Apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction.	8
4742288285	Asyndeton	Deliberately leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses.	9
4742288286	Clause	A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb.	10
4742288287	Colloquial Lang.	The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing.	11
4742288288	Connotation	The non-literal, associative meaning of a word.	12
4742288289	Denotation	The strict, literal meaning of a word.	13
4742288290	Diction	Related to style, diction refers to the writers choice of words.	14
4742288291	Euphemism	A more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally offensive word or concept; political correctness.	15
4742288292	Figurative Lang.	Writing or speech not intended to carry literal meaning, usually meant to be imaginative or vivid.	16
4742288293	Figure of speech	A device used to produce figurative language. Many compare dissimilar things.	17
4742288294	Hyperbole	A figure of speech used to deliberate exaggeration or an overstatement.	18
4742288295	Imagery	The sensory details or figurative language used to arouse emotion or represent abstractions.	19
4742288296	Irony	The contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant, or between what appears to be and what is actually true.	20
4742288297	Litotes	A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying it's opposite; opposite of hyperbole.	21
4742288298	Metaphor	A figure of speech using implied comparison of seeing like unlike things or the substitution of one for the other, suggesting some similarity.	22
4742288299	Metonymy	A figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it.	23
4742288300	Onomatopoeia	A figure of speech in which natural sounds or imitated in the sounds of words.	24
4742288301	Oxymoron	A figure of speech wherein the author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox.	25
4742288302	Paradox	A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposite to common sense, but upon further inspection, contains some degree of truth or validity.	26
4742288303	Parallelism	Referring to the grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural familiarity.	27
4742288304	Periodic sentence	A sentence that contains it's central meaning in a main clause at the end, which is preceded by a phrase or clause that cannot stand alone, adding emphasis and structural variety.	28
4742288305	Personification	A figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by giving them human attributes.	29
4742288306	Polysyndeton	The deliberate use of a series of conjunctions from David Gerlenter's editorial "Kick calculators out of class".	30
4742288307	Satire	A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions me conventions for reform or ridicule.	31
4742288308	Style	The sum of the choices made by the author involving diction, syntax, figurative language, and other elements.	32
4766947954	Subordinate clause	Contains both a subject and a verb but unlike an independent clause, it cannot stand alone; it does not complete a full thought.	33
4766947955	Symbolism	Generally, anything that represents itself, but stands for something else. Though usually concrete, it can be more complex than as well.	34
4766947956	Synecdoche	A figure of speech in which a part is used to represent a whole, or vice versa.	35
4766947957	Synesthesia	When one sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another. Ex: The sight of red ants makes you itchy.	36
4766947958	Syntax	The way an author chooses to join in words into phrases, clauses, and sentences.	37
4766947959	Understatement	The ironic minimizing of fact; expressing something as less significant than it is.	38
4766947960	Zeugma	A construction in which one word, usually a verb, modifies or governs two or more words in a sentence.	39
5536217281	ANACOLUTHON	an interruption on sentence structure; an unpredicted change in grammatical sequence.	40
5536227518	ANADIPLOSIS	a repeated word or phrase at both the end of the sentence or clause at the beginning of the next.	41
5536233227	ANTHYPOPHORA	when a character poses a question and immediately answers it.	42
5536238563	ANTIMERIA	the use of a word in a new grammatical form.	43
5536245312	ANTIPROSOPOPOEIA	a metaphor comparing a person to personified object.	44
5536253507	ANTONOMASIA	when you substitute a proper name for an epithet or a nickname.	45
5536258748	APOSIOPESIS	when an idea is left unsaid or a sentence is broken off in the middle of an idea.	46
5536268625	ASTERISMOS	a seemingly unnecessary word or phrase that introduces what you are about to say.	47
5536280548	CHIASMUS	a rhetorical formation where the order of a pair of words or phrases are inverted from one clause to the next.	48
5536287877	CONGERY	when you use repetition, but with a number of different words or phrases that mean the same thing.	49
5536293291	DIALOGISMUS	to imagine what someone else might be thinking.	50
5536297794	DYSPHEMISM	a harsh or unpleasant term used instead of a pleasant or neutral one.	51
5536310074	EUTREPISMUS	the numbering or ordering of a series of phrases that are under consideration.	52
5546079023	EPEDITIO	the rejection of all but one of various alternatives.	53