AP Language Flashcards
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7711293715 | Alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words | 0 | |
7711293716 | allusion (n) | Brief refenerce to a person event, or place. | 1 | |
7711293717 | Anaphora | the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. | 2 | |
7711293718 | Antimetabole | Repetition of words in reverse order. | 3 | |
7711293719 | antithesis (n) | a person or thing that is the direct opposite of something or someone else. | 4 | |
7711293720 | archaic diction | old-fashioned or outdated choice of words. | 5 | |
7711293721 | Asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words. | 6 | |
7711293722 | cumulative sentence | a sentence that completes its main clause/thought at the beginning and then adds to it. | 7 | |
7711293723 | Hortative sentence | sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action | 8 | |
7711293724 | Imperative sentence | sentence used to command or enjoin. | 9 | |
7711293725 | Inversion | A reversal of the usual order of words to achieve some kind of emphasis. | 10 | |
7711293726 | Juxtaposition | Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts. | 11 | |
7711293727 | Metaphor | A comparison without using like or as. | 12 | |
7711293728 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 13 | |
7711293729 | Parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses. | 14 | |
7711293730 | periodic sentence | sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end. | 15 | |
7711293731 | Personification | Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or idea. | 16 | |
7711293732 | Rhetorical question | Figure of speech in the firm of a question posed for the rhetorial effect, rather than getting the answer. | 17 | |
7711293733 | Synedoche | figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole. | 18 | |
7711293734 | Zeugma | Use of two different words in a grammarically similar way that produces different incongruous meanings. | 19 |