AP Language Final Flashcards

6860254376	Antanaclasis	Repetition of a similar word in a sentence w/ different meanings; word is repeated in two or more than two different senses	0
6860254377	Anthimeria	Creation of neogolism by using one part of speech in place of another	1
6860254378	Antithesis	Two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect	2
6860254379	Apostrophe	speaking to an abstract idea or something that cannot be present	3
6860254380	Anastrophe	Inversion of the natural or usual word order	4
6860254381	Anaphora	the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences	5
6860254382	Epistrophe	the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences	6
6860254383	Epithet	Brief, descriptive phrases used to characterize people or things.	7
6860254384	Epitaph	A brief statement written on a tomb or gravestone	8
6860254385	Prosopopoeia	An absent or imaginary person is represented as speaking	9
6860254386	Anthropomorphism	the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object.	10
6860254387	Personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	11
6860254388	Allegory	a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning	12
6860254389	Allusion	A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art	13
6860254390	Simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	14
6860254391	Metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	15
6860254392	Idiom	A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally.	16
6860254393	Paradox	A statement that contradicts itself	17
6860254394	Juxtaposition	Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts	18
6860254395	Oxymoron	Contradictory terms appear in conjunction	19
6860254396	Alliteration	the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.	20
6860254397	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	21
6860254398	Metonymy	the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant	22
6860254399	Polysyndeton	the use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural	23
6860254400	Asyndeton	Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words	24
6860254401	Polyptoton	repetition of words derived from the same root	25
6860254402	Analogy	A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them.	26
6860254403	Foil	A character who acts as a contrast to another character	27
6860254404	Zeugma	Uses one word to modify two other words two different ways	28
6860254405	Antimetabole	A phrase or sentence is repeated in reverse order	29
6860254406	Chaismus	Two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures	30
6860254407	Andiplosis	Repetition of the last word of a repeating clause	31
6860254408	Synesthia	Appealing to more than one sense	32
6860254409	red herring fallacy	An irrelevant topic is presented in order to divert attention from an original issue	33
6860254410	Straw Man Fallacy	Misinterpreting someone's argument to make it easier to attack	34
6860254411	Ad Hominem Fallacy	Attacking someone's personal traits to undermine their argument	35
6860254412	Post Hoc Fallacy	Because one thing occurred after another, it must have occurred as a result of it	36
6860254413	Hasty Generalization	A fallacy in which a conclusion is not logically justified by sufficient or unbiased evidence.	37
6860254414	Card Stacking	propaganda technique involving the use of showing one-sided information	38
6860254415	Begging the Question	A fallacy in which a claim is based on evidence or support that is in doubt.	39
6860254416	non sequitur	an idea that does not follow logically	40
6860254417	eponym	a person for whom something, such as a city, building, or street, has been named	41
6860254418	Hubris	Excessive pride that brings a characters downfall	42
6860254419	Hamartia	a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine.	43
6860254420	Erotema	A question that is asked without needing an answer	44
6860254421	Homily	a sermon	45
6860254422	Understatement	the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.	46