AP Language and Composition Vocabulary words Flashcards
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| 9560746030 | Anaphora | repetition of words at start of successive clauses | 0 | |
| 9560751146 | Antithesis | juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced/parallel words | 1 | |
| 9560759906 | Asyndeton | style where conjunctions are omitted | 2 | |
| 9560762782 | Colloquial | ordinary language, vernacular | 3 | |
| 9560767604 | Didactic | containing instructive purpose or a lesson | 4 | |
| 9560776390 | Epistrophe | repetition of a phrase at the end of sentences | 5 | |
| 9560781818 | Euphemism | kinder way to give unpleasant information | 6 | |
| 9560786411 | Litote | figure of speech that emphasizes its subject by conscious understatement | 7 | |
| 9560800781 | Metonymy | figure of speech in which an attribute/feature is used to name/designate something | 8 | |
| 9560810511 | Rhetoric | the art of using words to persuade | 9 | |
| 9560818180 | Synecdoche | when a part is used to signify a whole | 10 | |
| 9560826635 | Zeugma | does not contain grammatically correct linkage of one subject with two or more verbs or a verb with two or more objects | 11 | |
| 9560845267 | Retort | a strong response | 12 | |
| 9560849587 | Periodic sentence | Has a main clause or predicate at the end | 13 | |
| 9560858118 | Loose sentence | a long sentence that has the main point at the beginning | 14 | |
| 9560885718 | Balanced sentence | a sentence that uses parallel structure and has clauses that are equally important | 15 |