AP Language Style Elements Flashcards

4992868160	alliteration	repetition of same sound beginning several words of syllables in a sequence	0
4992876717	allusion	brief reference to a person, event, place, or work of art	1
4992882330	anaphora	repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines	2
4992889055	antimetabole	repetition of words in reverse order	3
4992890600	antithesis	opposition, or contrast of ideas or words in a parallel construction	4
5001474211	archaic diction	old-fashioned choice of words	5
5001481326	cumulative sentence	Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on	6
5001486349	asyndeton	omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words	7
5001494885	hortative sentence	sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores or calls to action	8
5001498724	imperative sentence	sentence used to command or enjoin	9
5001516745	inversion	inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order)	10
5001521538	juxtaposition	placement of two things closely together to emphasis similarities or differences	11
5001538899	metaphor	figure of speech that compares two things without using 'like' or 'as'	12
5001543899	oxymoron	paradoxical juxtaposition or words that seem to contradict one another	13
5001548066	parallelism	similarity of structure in a pair of series of related words, phrases, or clauses	14
5001554253	periodic sentence	sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end	15
5001558259	personification	attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or idea	16
5001565349	rhetorical question	figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather for the purpose of getting an answer	17
5001581691	synedoche	figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole	18
5001584372	zeugma	use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings	19