AP Language Summer Vocab Terms Flashcards

4773565654	Hyperbole	A rhetorical exaggeration... Often accomplished via comparisons, similes and metaphors.	0
4773565655	Understatement	A statement that describes something in a way that makes it seem less important, serious, bad, etc. than it really is, or the act of making such statements.	1
4773565656	Litotes	A deliberate understatement, especially when expressing a thought by denying it's opposite.	2
4773565657	Antithesis	A juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas (often, although not always, in parallel structure).	3
4773565658	Hypophora	A figure of reasoning in which one asks and then immediately answers ones own questions. Reasoning aloud.	4
4773565659	Rhetorical Question	To affirm or deny a point strongly by asking it as a question.	5
4773565660	Procatalepsis	Refuting anticipated objections.	6
4773565661	Distinctio	The explicit definition of or elaboration upon the meaning or meanings of a word or sets of words.	7
4773565662	Simile	An explicit comparison, often employing "like" or "as".	8
4773565663	Metaphor	A comparison made by referring to one thing as another.	9
4773565664	Analogy	A comparison of two things based on their being alike in some way.	10
4773565665	Allusion	An implied or indirect reference especially in literature; also the use of such references.	11
4773565666	Eponym	One for whom or which something is or is to be believed to be named.	12
4773565667	Sententia	One of several terms describing short, pithy sayings.	13
4773565668	Exemplum	An anecdote or short narrative used to point a moral or sustain an argument.	14
4773565669	Climax	The arrangement of words, phrases or clauses in an order of increasing importance, often in parallel structure.	15
4773565670	Chaismus/Parallelism	The repetition of ideas in inverted order. Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases or clauses.	16
4773565671	Conduplicatio/Anadiplosis	The repetition of the last word (or phrase) from the previous line, clause or sentence at the beginning of the next.	17
4773565672	Metabasis	A transitional statement in which one explains what has been and what will be said.	18
4773565673	Parenthesis	An insertion of a verbal unit that interrupts normal syntactical flow.	19
4773565674	Apostrophe	Turning one's speech from one audience to another. Most often, occurs when one addresses oneself to an abstraction, to an inanimate object or to the absent.	20
4773565675	Enumeratio	Dividing a subject into it's adjuncts, a cause into it's effects or an antecedent into it's consequents.	21
4773565676	Antanagoge	Putting a positive spin on something that is nevertheless acknowledged to be negative or difficult.	22
4773565677	Epithet	A characterizing word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of a name of a person or thing.	23
4773565678	Polysyndeton	Employing many conjunctions between clauses often showing the tempo or rhythm.	24
4773565679	Asyndeton	The omission of conjunctions between clauses, often resulting in a hurried rhythm or vehement effect.	25
4773565680	Zeugma	A general term describing when one part of speech (often the main verb, but sometimes a noun) governs two or more other parts of a sentence (often in a series).	26
4773565681	Metonymy	A reference to something or someone by naming one of it's attributes.	27
4773565682	Synecdoche	A whole represented by naming one of it's parts.	28
4773565683	Hyperbaton	An inversion of normal word order. A generic term for a variety of figures involving transposition, it is something synonymous with anastrophe.	29
4773565684	Aporia	Deliberating with oneself as though in doubt over some matter; asking oneself what is the best or appropriate way to approach something.	30
4773565685	Anaphora	The repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses, sentences or lines.	31
4773565686	Epistrophe	Ending lines, phrases, clauses or sentences with the same word.	32
4773565687	Symploce	The combination of both anaphora and epistrophe.	33
4773565688	Amplification	An expanded statement.	34
4773565689	Personification	A reference to abstractions or inanimate objects as though they had human qualities or abilities.	35
4773565690	Parataxis	The placing of clauses or phrases one after another without coordinating or subordinating connectives.	36