Deon's AP Language & Composition Defining by Example Flashcards

Examples of words from the Glossary Review.

6065020143	Ad hominem	Jordan's policy won't work because Jordan is stupid.	0
6065020144	Alliteration	The slippery slug slides.	1
6065020145	Allusion	Christy didn't like to spend money. She was no Scrooge, but she seldom purchased anything except the bare necessities.	2
6065020146	Anadiplosis	The crime was common, common was the pain.	3
6065020147	Analogy	"Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."	4
6065020148	Anaphora	"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."	5
6065020149	Anastrope	"So rested he by the tree" OR "arms that wrap about a shawl"	6
6065020150	Antimetabole	one should eat to live, not live to eat	7
6065020151	Antithesis	"to be or not to be"	8
6065020152	Aphorism	"Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise"	9
6065020153	Assonance	How now brown cow?	10
6065020154	Asyndeton	"I came, I saw, I conquered." OR He ate, she drank, we slept.	11
6065020155	Cacophony	"'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves "	12
6065020156	Chiasmus	"Flowers are lovely, love is flowerlike"	13
6065020157	Cliché	like stealing candy from a baby	14
6065020158	Colloquial expressions	"They have must have been going some"	15
6065020159	Compound-complex sentence	The cat lived in the backyard, but the dog, who knew he was superior, lived inside the house.	16
6065020160	Couplet	"Wave after wave in hills each other crowds, / As if the deeps resolved to storm the clouds."	17
6065020161	Doggerel	Who put the ram in the rama-lama ding dong? OR " If you see Kay, / Tell him he may. / See you in tea, / Tell him from me. "	18
6065020162	Ellipsis	I like to interview people sitting down.	19
6065020163	Epitaph	Oy, Megan's dead.	20
6065020164	Euphemism	He kicked the bucket	21
6065020165	Euphony	"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, "	22
6065020166	Hyperbole	"His eloquence would split rocks"	23
6065020167	Idiom	"Let sleeping dogs lie" OR "Cry over spilt milk" OR "Be green with envy"	24
6065020168	Invective	Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries.	25
6065020169	Isocolon	"His purpose was to impress the ignorant, to perplex the dubious, and to confound the scrupulous"	26
6065020170	Litotes	"She was not unmindful"	27
6065020171	Loose sentence	That's the house that Jack built.	28
6065020172	Metaphor	Her eyes are storm clouds.	29
6065020173	Metonymy	"The pen is mightier than the sword" OR The colonists blamed the crown for the tax on tea.	30
6065020174	Onomatopoeia	Hiss, buzz, bang	31
6065020175	Oxymoron	Random pattern, large minority, deafening silence, government organization, drink responsibly, dumb genius, wireless cable	32
6065020176	Parallelism	"He likes to fish and to swim."	33
6065020177	Paradox	"Death, thou shalt die!"	34
6065020178	Pathetic fallacy	"The cruel crawling foam"	35
6065020179	Periodic sentence	When she won, she bought a car.	36
6065020180	Personification	The sun sat up and yawned.	37
6065020181	Portmanteau word	smog, brunch, spork	38
6065020182	Polysyndeton	Here and there and everywhere.	39
6065020183	Pun	"You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass." OR "Immanuel doesn't pun; he Kant."	40
6065020184	Repetition	He said no. I can't believe it. He said no. Can you believe it? He said no!	41
6065020185	Rhetorical question	Why do I even bother?	42
6065020186	Simile	She was like Aphrodite in human form.	43
6065020187	Syllogism	Bikers are mean. Mean people belong in jail. Bikers belong in jail.	44
6065020188	Synecdoche	All hands on deck	45
6065020189	Synesthesia	"tasting of Flora and the country green, /Dance, and Provencal song, and sunburnt mirth"	46
6065020190	Understatement	"Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her person for the worst"	47