Rhetorical Devices AP Language Flashcards

7595895375	Apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person.	0
7595908259	Metonymy	A figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated to it. "The White House declared."	1
7595933262	Litotes	a type of understatement in which an idea is expressed by negating its opposite	2
7595948273	Paradox	A statement that contradicts itself	3
7595956245	Rhetorical questions	questions that require no answer	4
7595962287	Conceit	extended metaphor	5
7595966571	Distinctio	At this point, we have a short time left-- a short time being less than fifty years.	6
7595974254	Eponym	a person for whom something, such as a city, building, or street, has been named	7
7595984039	Oxymoron	Two opposite terms jammed together; safely dead	8
7595991584	Anadiplosis	"Without a healthy economy, we can't have a healthy society. And without a healthy society, the economy won't stay healthy for long.	9
7596007960	Epistrophe	'Cause if you liked it then you should have put a ring on it If you liked it then you should've put a ring on it	10
7596020427	Chiasmus	"Never let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You."	11
7596028831	Anaphora	the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences	12
7596036418	Asyndeton	I came, I saw, I conquered	13
7596045922	Polysyndeton	Deliberate use of many conjunctions	14
7596050645	Tricolon	Sentence of three parts of equal importance and length, usually three independent clauses.	15
7596064505	Pun	A horse is a very stable animal	16
7596074983	Analogy	an extended comparison showing the similarities between two things	17