AP LANGUAGE Flashcards

3429872210	Allegory	narrative with multiple levels of meaning	0
3429925452	Alliteration	Sequential repetition of similar initial sounds	1
3429928979	Allusion	a literary, historical, religious or mythological reference	2
3429933573	Anaphora	repetition of words at start of successive classes	3
3429937273	Antithesis	juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balances parallel words	4
3429942296	Aphorism	Concise Statement designed to make a point, illustrate commonly held believe	5
3429954581	Apostrophe	adress to something inanimate	6
3430073897	assonance	repetition of identical, similar vowel sounds	7
3430078390	asyndeton	style were conjunctions are omitted	8
3430081693	canon	that which has been accepted as authentic	9
3430084870	connotation	meaning suggested by a word apart from its denotation, or explicit reason	10
3430094257	consonance	repetition of two or more consonants	11
3430102432	elegy	poetic lament upon death of particular person	12
3430106625	epistrophe	repetition of a word	13
3430109042	epitaph	praise for a dead person, usually on a headstone	14
3430115000	euphemism	kinder way to give unpleasant information	15
3430121546	Homily	Sermon, talk, lecture on moral or spiritual life	16
3430126425	Jargon	specialized, technical language of a trade, profession or similar group.	17
3430134335	Metonymy	Figure of speech in which an attribute, feature is use to designate or name something	18
3430142262	Onomatopoeia	words that sound like what it describes	19
3430150439	Oxymoron	figure of speeach combining two apparently contradictory elements, often humorous.	20
3430160064	prose	Ordinary for of writing language, not poetry	21
3430164317	Synecdoche	when a part is used to signify a whole	22
3430169098	juxtaposition	location of one thing adjacent to another	23
3430171522	Litote	figure of speech that emphasized its subject by conscious understatement	24
3430178515	paradox	seemingly contradictory statement	25