Ap Flashcards

5154017978	Parallelism	Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases or clauses	0
5154017979	Isocolon	A succession of phrases in equal length and corresponding structure	1
5154017980	Climax	Mounting by degrees through words or sentences of increasing weight in parallel construction with an emphasis on the high point or culmination of series or events or of an experience	2
5154017981	Anithesis	Juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases	3
5154017982	Juxtaposition	An act of positioning close together	4
5154017983	Paradox	A statement that appears to contradict itself	5
5154017984	Oxymoron	The yoking of two t take that are ordinarily contradictory	6
5154017985	Segue	To move smoothly and unhesitatingly from one state, m comfortable took, situation, or element to another	7
5154017986	Ellipsis	Omission of one or more words, which must be supplied by the listener or reader	8
5154017987	Asyndeton	Omission of conjunctions between words, phrases or clauses	9
5154017988	Apposition	Placing side by side two coordinate elements, the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of the first	10
5154017989	Parenthesis	Insertion of some verbal unit in a position they interrupts the normal syntactic flow of the sentence	11
5154017990	Polysyndeton	Style that employs a great many conjunctions	12
5154017991	Anaphora	Repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of the successive clauses or verses	13
5154017992	Epistrophe	Repetition of a word or phrase at the end of several clauses	14
5154017993	Analogy	Comparison between two things	15
5154017994	Personification	Investing abstractions or inanimate objects with human qualities or abilities	16
5154017995	Allusion	An instance of indirect reference	17
5154017996	Pun	A play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words	18
5154017997	Euphemism	Substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit	19
5154074841	Metonymy	Substitution of some attributive or suggestive word for what is meant	20
5154074842	Periphrasis	To talk around something	21
5154074843	Apostrophe	Talking to something that can not talk back to you	22
5154074844	Motif	A recurrent thematic element in an artistic of literary work	23
5154074845	Archetype	The original model of which all other similar persons, objects or concepts are merely derivative, copied, patterned or emulated	24