AP Language Flashcards

9833725221	Anaphora	the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses	0
9833725222	Connotations	All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests	1
9833822295	Syntax	Arrangement of words in phrases and sentences	2
9834024948	Diction	The choice and use of words and phrases in writing	3
9834024949	Archetype	Typical example of certain person or thing	4
9834024950	Parallelism	Use of successive verbal constructions that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meaning	5
9834024951	Apostrophe	Exclamatory passage addressed to a person (typically absent)	6
9834024952	Syllogism	Conclusion drawn from assumed propositions	7
9834024953	Colloquialism	Word or phrase that is not formal	8
9834024954	Juxtaposition	Two things being seen together with contrasting effect	9
9834024955	Analogy	Comparison between two things typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification	10
9834024956	Epistrophe	Repetition of a word at the end of successive sentances	11
9834024957	Antecedent	Word that pronoun refers to	12
9834024958	Asyndeton	Omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence	13
9834024959	Theme	Subject of talk, piece of writing, topic (moral)	14
9834024960	Synedoche	Part is made to represent whole or vice versa	15
9834024961	Anadiplosis	Repetition of last word of a preceding clause	16
9834024962	Paradox	Self contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true	17
9834024963	Denotation	Literal or primary meaning of a word	18
9834024964	Allegory	Story that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically moral or political one	19
9834024965	Imagery	Visually descriptive	20
9834024966	Oxymoron	Contradictory terms appear together	21
9834024967	Metaphor	Comparing without like or as	22
9834024968	Ethos	Trust the writer	23
9834024969	Rhetorical question	Asked but doesn't require an answer	24
9834024970	Figurative language	Uses words or expressions with a meaning thats different from literal interpretation	25
9834024971	Pathos	Emotions	26
9834024972	Allusion	Expression to call something to mind without mentoring explicitly	27
9834024973	Logos	Logic	28
9834024974	Personification	Nonhuman thing has human characteristics	29
9834024975	Chiasmus	Words are repeated in reverse order or modified form	30
9834024976	Antistrophe	repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses	31
9880317537	cumulative sentence	an independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail	32
9880317538	Antithesis	Person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else	33
9880317539	Metonymy	the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant	34
9880317540	Anathema	An object of intense dislike	35
9880317541	Motif	A recurring theme, subject or idea	36
9880317542	Periodic sentence	Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end	37
9880317543	Polysyndeton	Deliberate use of many conjunctions	38