AP English Language Terminology Flashcards

7231175091	Diction	Word choice, particularly as an element of style	0
7231176357	Abstract Language	Language describing ideas and qualities (courage, faith, hubris, etc.) rather than observable or specific things, people, or places	1
7231177834	Concrete Language		2
7231177835	Connotation	Rather than the dictionary definition, association suggested by a word; implied meaning rather than literal or Denotation. (Some words have Positive Connotations (fragrance, slender, studious), and some words have Negative Connotations (odor, scrawny, nerdy)	3
7231182954	Denotation	The specific, exact meaning of a word, independent of its implications; opposite of connotation.	4
7231183916	Alliteration	The recurrence of initial consonant sounds	5
7231186097	Onomatopoeia	The use of words that sound like what they mean	6
7231187758	Oxymoron	A rhetorical antithesis; a figure of speech composed of contradictory words or phrases	7
7231188873	Repetition	Word or phrase used two or more times in close proximity	8
7231192561	Epizeuxis	repetition of one word for emphasis	9
7231195737	Anaphora	Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row	10
7231199095	Epistrophe	Repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences	11
7231204129	Symploce	Repetition of one word or phrase at the beginning and another word or phrase at the end of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences	12
7231205601	Anadiplosis	Repetition of the last word of one phrase, clause, or sentence at or very near the beginning of the next	13
7231211761	Diacope	Repetition of a word or phrase after an intervening word or phrase as a method of emphasis	14
7231214773	Epanalepsis	Repetition of the beginning word of a clause or sentence at the end	15
7231222102	Parenthetical Expression	A word, phrase, or whole sentence inserted as an aside in the middle of another sentence	16