AP Language Flashcards
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| 7602457848 | Anadiplosis | Repetition. The last word of the previous clause begins the next. "The bear chased the men, the men hunted the rabbit, the rabbit ate the leave." | 0 | |
| 7602466183 | Anaphora | Beginning several sentences/clauses with the same word/phrase. "I will fight for love, i will fight for victory" | 1 | |
| 7602484417 | Anastrophe | Yoda/shakespeare talk. Reverse order of words. | 2 | |
| 7602493559 | Aphorism | A brief opinionated statement/elemental truth. "Glass, china, and reputations are easily cracked, and never well mended" | 3 | |
| 7602508436 | Apostrophe | Pray-like statement to one who is not present. | 4 | |
| 7602518026 | Asyndeton | Related independent clauses connected by commas and lacking conjunctions. "I trashed the hall, broke the plate, ate the food, and said I'd return" | 5 | |
| 7602539989 | Begging the Question | Logical fallacy that introduces a statement with words/phrases that need to also be introduced prior to the statement. | 6 | |
| 7602551294 | Chiasmus | ABBA pattern. "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" | 7 | |
| 7602558899 | Complex sentence | Independent and dependent clause | 8 | |
| 7602562791 | Compound sentence | Two independent clauses with a conjunction | 9 | |
| 7602567970 | Declarative sentence | Sentence of assertion | 10 | |
| 7602570691 | Deductive | putting the thesis at the beginning of an argument followed by evidence | 11 | |
| 7602590588 | Epanalepsis | Similar to Chiasmus but not ABBA. "Common sense is not so common" | 12 | |
| 7602599368 | Epistrophe | Ending several lines/sentences with the same word(s)/phrase(s) "of the people, by the people, and for the people. | 13 | |
| 7602619559 | Etymology | Study of the origin of words and their historical uses. | 14 | |
| 7602628384 | Jargon | A pattern of speech and vocab associated with a particular group of people | 15 | |
| 7602637842 | Loose/Cumulative sentence | An independent sentence/phrase that followed by several modifiers. "She wore a yellow ribbon that matched the shingles of the house, which were painted last year, just before he left for war." | 16 | |
| 7602651986 | Malapropism | Word play where one word is mistakenly replaced by a word that sounds similar. "pineapple of politeness vs pinnacle of politeness" | 17 | |
| 7602668332 | Metonymy | Figure of speech where the name of one thing is substituted by a word that is closely related to it. "The CROWN spoke with authority. Crown=king" | 18 | |
| 7602686177 | Periodic Sentence | A sentence with several dependent clauses that precede the independent clause. "While watching the rain and wondering why it has not stopped, nor even abated, I filed my fingernails. | 19 | |
| 7602715788 | Polysyndeton | Use of many fanboys when not needed but are rhetorically effective. Makes it sound like you're out of breath. "He was overwhelmed, as if by a tsunami, and by the fishes, and by the seaweed, and by the salt spray from the heavens" | 20 | |
| 7602743116 | Predicate adjective | An adjective that follows a linking verb and modifies the subject "The gigantic whirlpool was INKY BLACK. | 21 | |
| 7602758965 | Predicate nominative | A noun/pronoun that uses a linking verb to unite, describe, or rename the noun. | 22 | |
| 7602772268 | Rhetorical Shift | Occurs when the author of an essay significantly alters his/her's diction/syntax/both | 23 | |
| 7602781945 | Syllogism | Two premises lead to a truth. "All human beings are moral. Heather is a human being. Therefore Heather is mortal." | 24 | |
| 7602808229 | Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa "Lend me a hand" | 25 | |
| 7602817281 | Tricolon | A sentence with three distinct and equally long parts separated by commas. "I came, I saw, I conquered." | 26 | |
| 7602828047 | Zeugma | A rhetorical device where two or more elements in a sentence are tied together by the same verb or noun. "John lost his wallet, coat, and his temper." | 27 |