AP Language Rhetorical Strategies Flashcards

4755580015	alliteration	a figure of speech in which consonant sounds at the beginning of words are repeated	0
4755581346	allusion	a reference in a literary work to a person, place, or thing in history or another work of literature. Allusions are often indirect or brief references to well-known characters or events.	1
4755584568	analogy	when you compare the relationship of two things.	2
4755585961	anaphora	repetition of the initial word(s) over successive phrases or clauses	3
4755587336	chiasmus	figure of emphasis in which the words in one phrase or clause are replicated, exactly or closely, in reverse grammatical order in the next phrase or clause; an inverted order of repeated words in adjacent phrases or clauses (A-B, B-A).	4
4755600265	antithesis	figure of balance in which two contrasting ideas are intentionally juxtaposed, usually through parallel structure; a contrasting of opposing ideas in adjacent phrases, clauses, or sentences.	5
4755602954	aphorism	a precise statement of principal given in pointed words.	6
4755604297	apostrophe	a figure of speech where someone, some abstract quality, or a nonexistent personage is addressed as is present	7
4755607580	asyndeton	figure of omission in which normally occurring conjunctions (and, or, but, for, nor, so, yet) are intentionally omitted in successive phrases, or clauses; a string of words not separated by normally occurring conjunctions.	8
4755611232	call to action	a statement that urges people to act or make a change	9
4755611940	cumulative sentence	a sentence that states its main idea at the beginning and follows up with details.	10
4755613490	doublespeak	language used to distort and manipulate rather than inform.	11
4755614555	euphemism	the use of inoffensive words or phrases rather than offensive ones.	12
4755616415	hortative sentence	a sentence meant to encourage someone to do something.	13
4755618100	hyperbole	an extravagant exaggeration. From the Greek for "overcasting", hyperbole is a figure of speech that is a grossly exaggerated description of statement.	14
4755620872	imperative sentence	a sentence that gives advice or instructions or that expresses a request or a command.	15
4755657674	inversion/anastrophe	inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of subject-verb-object order.	16
4755659805	jargon	specialized language used by people from the same field.	17
4755661626	juxtaposition	the act or an instance of placing two or more things side by side for the purpose of comparison or contrast.	18
4755663978	litotes	understatement, for intensification, by denying the contrary of the thing being affirmed.	19
4755668733	metaphor	a type of figurative language in which a statement is made that says one thing is something else but, literally, it is not.	20
4755671780	metonymy/synecdoche	a figure of speech which substitutes one term with another that is being associated with that term	21
4755674357	onomatopoeia	sound words, words that by their sound, suggest their meaning.	22
4755675547	oxymoron	figure that binds together TWO words that are ordinarily contradictory.	23
4755676513	paradox	figure that employs an apparent contradiction which, nonetheless, evokes some measure of truth.	24
4755678473	parallelism	figure of balance identified by a similarity in the syntactical structure of a set of words in successive phrases, clauses, sentences; successive words, phrases, clauses with the same or very similar grammatical structure.	25
4755684150	periodic sentence	a sentence that states its main idea at the end of the sentence.	26
4755684798	personification	a figure of speech where animals, ideas, or inorganic objects are given human characteristics.	27
4755687743	polysyndeton	the repetition of conjunctions in close succession	28
4755690244	rhetorical question	figure which asks a question, not for the purpose of further discussion, but to assert or deny an answer implicitly; a question whose answer is obvious or implied.	29
4755692802	simile	a simile is a type of figurative language, language that does done mean exactly what it says, that makes a comparison between two otherwise unalike objects or ideas by connecting them with the words "like" or "as".	30
4755695528	zeugma	two different words linked to a verb or an adjective which is strictly appropriate to only one of them.	31