AP Language Literary Phrases (Purple) Flashcards

8949994892	epigraph	is a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or book (remember Fitzgerald's epigraph at the beginning of Gatsby)	0
8950005597	epitaph	a short text honoring a deceased person, often inscribed on a tombstone	1
8975874778	persona	a charcter assumed by an author in a written work	2
8975883020	cliche	an overused phrase, expression, or element of a work	3
9060173995	anachronism	a chronological misplacing of persons, events, objects, or customs in regard to each other	4
9060184501	Antihero or antiheroine	a protagonist who lacks the attributes that make a heroic figure, as nobility of mind and spirit, a life or attitude marked by action or purpose, and the like	5
9201978386	polysyndeton	repetition of conjunctions in close succession (as in we have ships and men and money)	6
9201985028	asyndeton	omission of the conjunctions that ordinarily join coordinate words or clauses (as in "I came, I saw, I conquered")	7
9227210411	invective	Abusive language: discourse that casts blame on somebody or something	8
9227225503	paean	A song or expression of joy or praise	9
9262778583	anaphora	a form of parallel structure in which there is repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences ex) "we cannot dedicate - we cannot consecrate - we cannot hallow - this ground" Abraham Lincoln	10
9287849230	euphony	Agreeable sound, especially in the phonetic quality of words ex) The majesty euphony of Milton's poetry	11
9287855714	cacophony	A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds ex) A cacophony of deafening alarm bells"; a cacophony of architectural styles	12
9321742370	claim	the overall thesis the writer will argue for	13
9321744900	Warrant	Explanation of why or how the data supports the claim, the underlying assumption that connects your data to your claim	14
9349737115	zeugma	(also known as syllepsis) the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words usually in such a manner that it applies to each in a different sense (as in "opened the door and her heart to the homeless boy")	15