AP Language Words to Know Flashcards

7723320779	Allegory	A work that functions on a symbolic level	0
7723329816	Allusion	A n indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art	1
7723343397	Ethos	ethical appeal/credibility	2
7723346666	Logos	logical appeal	3
7723351718	Pathos	appeal to emotion	4
7723353961	Analogy	A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way	5
7723357649	Anecdote	A brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event.	6
7723360653	Antithesis	a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else	7
7723376471	Antecedent	The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.	8
7723379722	Apostrophe	A direct address to an absent listener or to the reader	9
7723395175	Assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds	10
7723395176	Elegy	a sorrowful poem or speech	11
7723400979	Epistrophe	the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences	12
7723403475	Euphemism	An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant	13
7723405678	Hyperbole	extreme exaggeration	14
7723412439	Irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	15
7723420256	Juxtaposition	Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts	16
7723425460	Metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	17
7723429790	Oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	18
7723432085	Paradox	a statement that seems contradictory but is actually true	19
7723434874	Parallelism (Parallel Structure)	similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	20
7723437410	Parody	a satirical imitation	21
7723454732	Personification	the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea	22
7723454733	Pun	A play on words	23
7723471280	Repetition	Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis	24
7723476318	Rhetorical Question	A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer	25
7723476319	Satire	A literary style used to make fun of or ridicule an idea or human vice or weakness	26
7723483977	Simile	a comparison using like or as	27
7723496485	Syllogism	a form of deductive reasoning with a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion	28
7723532622	Synecdoche	A figure of speech in which a part is substituted for the whole.	29
7723541548	Understatement	A statement that says less than what is meant	30
7723541549	Zeugma	verb or an adjective applies to more than one noun	31
7723544705	Anaphora	the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses	32
7723547157	Anastrophe	the inversion of the usual order of words or clauses	33
7723592396	Antimetabole	Repetition of words in reverse order	34
7723597511	Aphorism	a concise statement of a truth or principle	35
7723618922	Asyndeton	the omission of conjunctions	36
7723636260	Chiasmus	an inversion in the second of two parallel phrases	37
7723641827	Metonymy	A figure of speech that substitutes a word with a different but closely associated word	38
7723643459	Polysyndeton	the repetition of conjunctions in a series of coordinate words, phrases, or clauses	39