AP Language Rhetoric Vocabulary Flashcards

4212591332	Zeugma	A figure of speech in which a word usually a verb or an adjective, applies to more than one noun blending together grammatically and logically different ideas	0
4212597355	Alliteration	The occurrence of the same letters or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words	1
4212599728	Allusion	An indirect or passing reference	2
4212600955	Anadiplosis	A word that is used at the end of a sentence and then used again at the beginning of the next sentence	3
4212603775	Analogy	A comparison between two things	4
4212605157	Anaphora	The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses	5
4212693179	Anecdote	A short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person	6
4212694403	Anthropomorphism	The attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object	7
4212696901	Anticlimax	A disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events	8
4212698384	Antimetabole	A figure of speech in which words or clauses from the first half of the sentence are repeated in the second half of the sentence in reverse order	9
4212700430	Antithesis	A person or thing that is direct opposite of someone or something else	10
4212701465	Aphorism	A pithy observation that contains a general truth	11
4212702862	Apostrophe	A figure of speech, a writer, or a speaker detaches himself from the reality and addresses an imaginary character in his speech	12
4212704262	Appositive	A noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it	13
4212706306	Asyndeton	A writing style where conjunctions are omitted in a series of words or phrases	14
4212707539	Chiamsus	In which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce in an artistic affect	15
4212709155	Climax	A structural part of a plot and is at times referred to as a crisis	16
4212710148	Consonance	Agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions	17
4212711505	Ellipsis	A series of dots that usually indicates an intentional omission of a word, sentence, or whole section from a text without altering its original meaning	18
4212714811	Assonance	The repetition of the sound of a vowel	19
4212716167	Epistrophe	The repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences	20
4212717293	Euphemism	A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing	21
4212720633	Extended Metaphor	A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines a poem	22
4212722622	Hyperbole	Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally	23
4212724898	Imagery	Visually descriptive or figurative language	24
4212725652	Irony	The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect	25
4212726952	Juxtaposition	The fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effects	26
4212728240	Litotes	Ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary	27
4212731080	Malapropism	The mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with unintentionally amusing effect	28
4212732466	Metaphor	A word or phrase that is used to make a comparison between two people, things, animals, or places	29
4212735497	Metonymy	The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant	30
4212737781	Onomatopoeia	The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named	31
4212739030	Oxymoron	A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction	32
4212740506	Paradox	A situation, person, or thing that combines contradictory features or qualities	33
4212742177	Paranthesis	A word, clause, or sentence inserted as an explanation or after thought into a passage that is grammatically complete without it in writing usually marked off by curved brackets, dashes, or commas	34
4212744717	Perphrasis	A stylistic device that can be defined as the use of excessive and longer words to convey a meaning which could have been conveyed with a shorter expression or in a few words	35
4212746269	Persona	The mask of an actor	36
4212746800	Personification	A figure of speech where human qualities are given to animals, objects, or ideas	37
4212747877	Pun	A play on words in which a humorous effect is produced by using a word that suggests two or more meanings or by exploiting similar sounding words having different meanings	38
4212750982	Rhetorical Question	Is asked just for the effect or to lay emphasis on some point discussed when no real answer is expected	39
4212752238	Sarcasm	The use of irony to mock or convey contempt	40
4212752830	Satire	The use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices	41
4212753944	Similie	A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid	42
4212756317	Synecdoche	A figure of speech in which a part is made to present the whole or vice versa	43
4212756909	Theme	A main idea or an underlying meaning of a literary work that may be stated directly or indirectly	44