AP Language Vocabulary Flashcards

4761072844	Onomatopoeia	A word formed from the imitation of natural sounds	0
4761072845	Asyndeton	A construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions	1
4761072846	Anaphora	The repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences	2
4761072847	Alliteration	The repetition of initial consonant sounds in successive or neighboring words	3
4761072848	Hyperbole	Intentional exaggeration to create and effect	4
4761072849	Personification	Endowing non-human objects or creatures with humans qualities or characteristics	5
4761072850	Apostrophe	A figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person, or some abstraction	6
4761072851	Ellipsis	The omission of a word or phrase which is grammatically necessary but can be deduced from the context	7
4761072852	Synecdoche	Using one part of an object to represent the entire object	8
4761072853	Complex Sentence	A sentence with one independent clause and at least once dependent clause	9
4761072854	Juxtaposition	Placing two elements side by side to present a comparison or contrast	10
4763305697	Metaphor	A direct comparison of two different things	11
4763305698	Chiasmus	A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed	12
4763305699	Tautology	Needless repetition which adds no meaning or understanding	13
4763305700	Litotes	A type of understatement in which an idea is expressed by negating it's opposite	14
4763305701	Antithesis	A statement in which two opposing ideas are balanced	15
4763305702	Allusion	A reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that the author assumes the reader with recognize	16
4763305703	Metonymy	Substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it	17
4763305704	Polysyndeton	The use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural	18
4763305705	Parallelism	The use of corresponding grammatical or syntactical forms	19