AP Language and Composition- Chapter 2 Flashcards

5131099062	Alliteration	Repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence	0
5131099063	Allusion	Brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art	1
5131099064	Anaphora	Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines	2
5131099065	Antimetabole	Repetition of words in reverse order	3
5131099066	Antithesis	Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel contstruction	4
5131099067	Archaic Diction	Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words	5
5131099068	Asyndeton	Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words	6
5131099069	Cumulative Sentence	Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence, and then builds and adds on	7
5131099070	Hortative Sentence	Sentence that exhorts, advises, calls to action	8
5131099071	Imperative Sentence	Sentence used to command, enjoin, implore, or entreat	9
5131099072	Inversion	Inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject- verb-object order)	10
5131099073	Juxtaposition	Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts	11
5131099074	Metaphor	Figure of speech that says one thing is another in order to explain by comparison	12
5131099075	Oxymoron	Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another	13
5131099076	Parallelism	Similarity of structure in a pair of series of related words, phrases, or clauses	14
5131099077	Periodic Sentence	Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end	15
5131099078	Personification	Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or idea	16
5131099079	Rhetorical Question	Figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer	17
5131099080	synecdoche	figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole	18
5131099081	Zeugma	Use of two different words in a grammatically similar way to producing different, often incongruous, meanings	19