AP Terms Quiz 3 Flashcards

7409163236	Alliteration	Repetition of the same sound beginning several words or syllables in sequence. [L]et us go forth to lead the land we love...	0
7409163237	Allusion	Brief reference to a person, event, or place (real or fictitious) or to a work of art. Let both sides unite to heed in all corners of the earth the command of Isaiah...	1
7409163238	Anaphora	Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines. ...not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need—not as a call to battle, though embattled we are...	2
7409163239	Antimetabole	Repetition of words in reverse order. [A]sk not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.	3
7409163240	Antithesis	Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction. [W]e shall ...support any friend, oppose any foe...	4
7409163241	Archaic diction	Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words. Beliefs for which our forebears fought	5
7409163242	Asyndeton	Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words. [W]e shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty.	6
7409163243	Cumulative sentence	Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on. But neither can two great and powerful groups of nations take comfort from our present course—both sides overburdened by the cost of modern weapons, both rightly alarmed by the steady spread of the deadly atom, yet both racing to alter that uncertain balance of terror that stays the hand of mankind's final war.	7
7409163244	Horative sentence	Sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.	8
7409163245	Imperative sentence	Sentence used to command or enjoin. My fellow citizens of the world: as not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.	9