AP Flashcards

6816975867	Ad Hominem	attacking a person's character rather than their position	0
6816983763	alliteration	initial sounds in neighboring words	1
6816987790	allusion	reference to something literary or historical that the author assumes the reader knows	2
6816999636	amplification	when the writer repeats something just said while adding more detail and information to original	3
6817040690	analogy	a similarity in some particulars between things otherwise different (sleep and death - lack of animation)	4
6817062263	anaphora	repetition of words or phrases at beginning of sentences	5
6817062264	antithesis	a thought is balanced with a contrasting thought in parallel arrangements	6
6817065755	apostrophe	address is made to an absent or deceased person or a personified thing rhetorically	7
6817068394	asyndeton	a construction on which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions	8
6817068395	chiasmus	statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the 2nd part is structurally reversed	9
6817073613	epigram	brief, pithy and often paradoxical saying	10
6817075584	euphemism	indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant	11
6817078589	hyperbole	intentional exaggeration	12
6817078590	idiom	an expression in a given language that cannot be understood from a literal meaning of the words	13
6817081812	inductive reasoning	deriving general principles from particular facts	14
6817085500	metonymy	substitution of one noun for another	15
6817085501	paradox	an apparently contradicting statement that actually contains some truth	16
6817089331	parallelism	repetition of syntactical similarities in passages closely connected	17
6817091426	personification	thing or idea is given human attributes	18
6817091427	polysyndeton	use for rhetorical effect of more conjunctions than is neccessary	19
6817094807	synecdoche	using one part of an object to represent the whole thing	20
6817097705	zeugma	use of word to modify or govern 2 or more words	21