AP Language Unit #4 Flashcards

5389755316	Syntax	the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language	0
5389757579	Phrase	two or more words that do not contain the subject-verb pair	1
5389762348	Clause	Every clause has at least a subject and a verb.	2
5389793664	Subordinate Clauses	Subordinate conjunction + subject + verb =incomplete thought.	3
5389837561	Balanced Sentence	A sentence made up of two parts that are roughly equal in length, importance, and grammatical structure: a paired construction	4
5389844050	Antithesis	A balanced sentence that makes a contrast	5
5389849742	Loose or Cumulative Sentence	An independent clause followed by a series of subordinate constructions (phrases or clauses) that gather details about a person, place, event, or idea	6
5389887175	Periodic Sentences	A periodic sentence delays its main idea until the end by presenting modifiers or subordinate ideas first, thus holding the readers' interest until the end." A long and frequently involved sentence, marked by suspended syntax, in which the sense is not completed until the final word--usually with an emphatic climax.	7
5389889161	Running Style	a sentence style that appears to follow the mind as it worries a problem through, mimicking the "rambling, associative syntax of conversation"	8
5389931992	Interrupted Sentence	An interrupted sentence is when a modifier is placed between the subject and the verb, or between the verb and the direct object, interrupting the idea of the main independent clause	9
5389931993	Horative Sentence	A sentence that exhorts, advises, calls to action	10
5389940797	Absolute Phrase	made up of a noun and its modifiers	11
5389943926	Appositive	a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it. The appositive can be a short or long combination of words.	12
5389947531	Parenthesis	The insertion of some verbal unit that interrupts the normal syntactic flow of the sentence. Parenthetical remarks may also be set off by dashes.	13
5389973035	Telegraphic Sentence	A sentence with less than five words.	14
5389977105	Isocolon	A succession of phrases of approximately equal length and corresponding structure.	15
5390004217	Tricolon	a series of three parallel words, phrases, or clauses	16
5390007991	Epanalepsis	Repetition at the end of a clause or sentence of the word or phrase with which it began	17
5390019425	Chiasmus	It reverses the order of modifiers, or simply sentence structure in two connected, called parallel, clauses.	18
5390027798	Anastrophe	Departure from normal word order for the sake of emphasis	19
5390031996	Anaphora	Repetition of the same word or phrase at the start of successive clauses.	20
5390035898	Circumlocution	The use of unnecessarily wordy and indirect language to avoid getting to the point.	21
5390042893	Ellipsis	The commonly used series of three dots, which can be place at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of a sentence or clause linguistically appropriate omission of words that are mutually understood and thus unnecessary.	22
5390051836	Epiphora	Repetition of a word or phrase at the end of several clauses	23
5390075591	Juxtaposed	Which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts. A useful device for writers to portray their characters in great detail to create suspense and achieve a rhetorical effect	24