AP Language and Composition Flashcards

4832575354	alliteration	Repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence	0
4832577916	allusion	Brief reference to a person, event, or place, real, or fictitious, or to a work of art	1
4832579668	anaphora	Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines	2
4832581582	antimetabole	Repetition of words in reverse order	3
4832582644	antithesis	Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction	4
4832584514	archaic diction	Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words	5
4832585754	asyndeton	Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words	6
4832587853	cumulative sentence	Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence, and then builds and adds on	7
4832588957	hortative sentence	Sentence that exhorts, advises, calls to action	8
4832592169	imperative sentence	Sentence used to command, enjoin, implore, or entreat	9
4832593013	inversion	Inverted order of words in a sentence	10
4832593874	juxtaposition	Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts	11
4832595120	metaphor	Figure of speech that says one thing is another in order to explain by comparison	12
4832596207	metonymy	Using a single feature to represent the whole	13
4832596749	oxymoron	Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another	14
4832597907	parallelism	Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	15
4832599214	periodic sentence	Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end	16
4832599895	personification	Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or idea	17
4832601708	rhetorical question	Figure of speech in the foreman a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer	18
4832602976	zeugma	Use of two different words in a grammatically similar way but producing different, often incongruous, meanings	19