AP Language & Composition Rhetorical Devices Flashcards

4227699695	alliteration	Repetition of the same sound beginning several words or syllables in sequence.	0
4227699696	allusion	Brief reference to a person, event, or place (real or fictitious) or to a work of art.	1
4227699697	anaphora	Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines.	2
4227699698	antimetabole	Repetition of words in reverse order.	3
4227699699	antithesis	Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction.	4
4227699700	archaic diction	Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words.	5
4227699701	asyndeton	Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words.	6
4227699705	syntactic inversion	Inverted order or words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order).	7
4227699706	juxtaposition	Placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences.	8
4227699707	metaphor	Figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as.	9
4227699708	oxymoron	Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another.	10
4227699709	parallelism	Similarity of grammatical structure in a series of related words, phrases, or clauses.	11
4227699711	personification	Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea.	12
4227699712	rhetorical question	Figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer.	13
4227699713	synecdoche	Figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole or the whole to represent the part: "Give us this day our daily bread" : bread=food	14
4227699714	zeugma	Use of a word in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings.	15
4227711706	apostrophe	When the speaker addresses a third party, either an absent person or a personified abstraction.	16
4227711707	epistrophe	The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses or sentences.	17
4227712954	analogy	A comparison between two things.	18
4227712955	paradox	The juxtaposition of two seemingly contradictory things that reveals a hidden or unexpected truth.	19
4227712972	simile	A comparison that uses "like" or "as."	20
4227714206	climax	The arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing importance; or the high point of a story	21
4227714207	hyperbole	The use of obvious and deliberate exaggeration.	22
4227714208	understatement	A way of speaking that minimizes the importance of something.	23
4227715445	irony	A contrast or incongruity between what is expected and what is reality.	24
4227715446	metonymy	Renaming something a new name that is related in meaning to the original thing or concept: "Hollywood" meaning celebrity life and culture.	25
4227715447	assonance	The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in successive words.	26
4227716607	consonance	The repetition of middle or final consonant sounds in successive words.	27
4227716608	litotes	Where a negative statement is used to affirm a positive sentiment: Q: "How are you doing?" A: "I'm not bad."	28
4227720051	onomatopoeia	A word that sounds like the noise it describes.	29
4227721609	repetition	The recurrence of a word in order to bring attention to its meaning.	30
4227721610	rhyme scheme	The pattern of same/similar vowel sounds in words.	31
4227725444	polysyndeton	When several conjunctions are used to join words, phrases, or clauses when they are not contextually necessary.	32
7133497073	anthimeria	Takes a word that is typically one part of speech and uses it as a different part of speech	33