AP Language Flashcards

7444570774	Disparages	regard or represent as being of little worth	0
7444594263	Anadiplosis	repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the next clause	1
7444601938	Rhetorical Fragment	Sentence fragment used deliberately for a persuasive purpose or to create a desired effect	2
7444608569	Anaphora	the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences	3
7444615393	Antithesis	A statement in which two opposing ideas are balanced	4
7444625304	Epistrophe	Repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses	5
7444630016	Asyndeton	the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence.	6
7444635408	Ultimatums	A final demand or proposition	7
7444639730	Polysyndeton	the use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural	8
7444651712	Predicate Nominatives	noun or pronoun that follows the linking verb and gives more information about the subject	9
8309882556	Heedless	Not paying attention; Careless	10
8309893503	Expenditures	Government spending. Major areas of federal spending are social services and national defense.	11
8309895872	Incoherent	Not able to be understood	12
8309899176	Scandalized	shocked or horrified by something considered immoral or improper	13
8309902728	Piecemeal	One piece at a time; gradually	14
8309907321	Reiterates	to repeat	15
8987869478	occasioned	to cause something to happen.	16
8987871435	synergistic	working together	17
8987874779	empirical	based on observation or experiment	18
8987875882	conjecture	inference; guesswork	19
8987878640	exposé	A factual piece of writing that reveals weaknesses, faults, frailties, or other shortcomings.	20
8987879910	meditation	reflection; thought	21