AP Language Chapter 2 Flashcards

7299362641	alliteration	Repetition of the same sound beginning several words or syllables in a sequence	0
7299362642	allusion	Brief reference to a person, event, or place (real or fictitious) or to a work of art	1
7299362643	anaphora	Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines	2
7299362644	antimetabole	Repetition of words in reverse order.	3
7299362645	antithesis	Opposition, or contrast, of ideas of words in a parallel construction	4
7299362646	archaic diction	Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words	5
7299362647	asyndeton	Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words	6
7299362648	cumulative sentence	Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on	7
7299362649	hortative sentence	Sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action	8
7299362650	Imperative sentence	Sentence used to command or enjoin	9
7299362651	inversion	Inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order.)	10
7299362652	juxtaposition	Placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences	11
7299362653	metaphor	Figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as	12
7299362654	oxymoron	Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another	13
7299362655	parallelism	Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	14
7299362656	periodic sentences	Sentences whose main clause is withheld until the end	15
7299362657	personification	Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea	16
7299362658	rhetorical question	Figure of speech in the form of a question posed for the rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer	17
7299362659	synedoche	Figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole	18
7299362660	zeugma	Use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings	19