AP Language Rhetorical Terms Flashcards

4969646315	Alliteration	Repetition of initial consants in 2 or more adjacent words	0
4969646316	Anadiplosis	Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause	1
4969646317	Anaphora	Repetition of same words/groups of words at the beginning of successive clauses	2
4969646318	Anastrophe	Inversion of the natural or usual word order	3
4969646319	Antithesis	The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas	4
4969646320	Antaclanasis	Repetition of a word in 2 different senses	5
4969646321	Anthimeria	The substitution of one part of speech for another	6
4969646322	Antimetabole	Repetition of words, in succesive clauses, in reverse grammatical order	7
4969646323	Apposistion	Placing side by side the coordinate elements. The second of which serves as an explanation of modification of the first	8
4969646324	Assonance	Repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words	9
4969646325	Asyndeton	Deliberate omission of comjunctions between a series of related clauses	10
4969646326	Climax	Arranagement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing inportance	11
4969646327	Ellipsis	The deliberite omission of a word or words that are readily implied by the context.	12
4969646328	Epanelipsis	Repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occured at the beginning of the same clause.	13
4969646329	Epistrophe	Repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses	14
4969646330	Irony	Use of a word in such a way as to convey a meaning opposite to the literal meaning of the word	15
4969646331	Isocolon	Scheme of parallel structure that occurs whem parallels are similar not only in structure but in length	16
4969646332	Litotes	Deliberate use of understatement	17
4969646333	Metaphor	Implied comparison between 2 things of unlike nature	18
4969646334	Metonymy	Substitution of some attributive or siggestive words for what is actually meant	19
5743066810	Chiasmus	Words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in the same or modified form	20