AP LANGUAGE WORDS Flashcards
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| 5934918096 | tropes | figures of speech with an unexpected twist in the meaning of words | 0 | |
| 5934918097 | metonymy | using a vaguely suggestive, physical object to embody a more general idea (CROWN for royalty) | 1 | |
| 5934918098 | synecdoche | using a part of a physical object to represent the whole object (twenty eyes watched us=twenty people watched us) | 2 | |
| 5934918099 | zeugma | artfully using one verb with two or more different objects | 3 | |
| 5934918100 | erotema | asking a rhetorical question to the reader as a transition or as a thought provoking tool before proceeding | 4 | |
| 5934918101 | meiosis | understatement | 5 | |
| 5934918102 | catachresis | a completely impossible figure of speech | 6 | |
| 5934918103 | synesthesia | mixing one type of sensory input with another in an impossible way | 7 | |
| 5934936587 | anapodoton | deliberately creating a sentence fragment by the omission of a clause | 8 | |
| 6202035716 | Apostrophe | addressing someone or some personified abstraction that is not physically present | 9 | |
| 6202047201 | anthimeria | Using a different part of speech to act as another, such as a verb for a noun, or noun for a verb, or adjective for a verb. "Gift him with something" instead of ''give him" | 10 | |
| 6202084537 | aporia | talking about not being able to talk about something | 11 | |
| 6202093013 | aposiopesis | breaking off as if unable to continue | 12 | |
| 6202098830 | SCHEMES | figures of speech that deal with word order, syntax, letters, and sounds, rather than meaning of words. | 13 | |
| 6202109347 | Parallelism | when the writer establishes similar patterns of grammatical structure and length. | 14 | |
| 6202128921 | antithesis | contrary ideas expresses in a balanced sentence. "evil men fear authority, good men cherish it" | 15 | |
| 6202141827 | anastrophe | inverted word order from what one expects. Think yoda. | 16 | |
| 6202149088 | antimetabole | (also called epanados) repetition in reverse order. "you should eat to live, not live to eat" | 17 | |
| 6202161447 | chiasmus | taking parallelism and deliberately turning it inside out, creating a crisscross pattern. | 18 | |
| 6202172264 | alliosis | presenting alternatives in a balanced manner | 19 | |
| 6202173990 | ellipsis | omitting a word implied by the previous clause | 20 | |
| 6202187359 | asyndeton | using no conjunctions to create an effect of speed or simplicity. "been there. done that." | 21 | |
| 6202199699 | polysyndeton | using many conjunctions to achieve an overwhelming effect. List of classes. | 22 | |
| 6202211235 | climax | (also called Auxesis and Crescendo)-- arrangement in order of increasing importance. (opposite is bathos which is often used for comedy) | 23 |