AP Language: Syntax and Diction Flashcards

5760363224	anaphora	repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines	0
5760368687	antimetabole	Repetition of words in reverse order	1
5760370866	antithesis	Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction	2
5760374033	archaic diction	Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words	3
5760377244	asyndeton	omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words	4
5760382850	inversion	inverted order of words in a sentence(variation of the subject-verb-object order)	5
5760391909	synecdoche	Figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole	6
5760402117	zeugma	Use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings	7
5760407764	cumulative sentence	Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning and then builds and adds on	8
5760410950	horative sentence	Sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action	9
5760416808	imperative sentence	Commanding sentence	10
5760419842	Periodic sentence	sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end	11