AP Flashcards

5764421350	Metonymy	substitution of some attributes or suggestive word for what is actually meant	0
5764421351	Anaphora	repetition of same word or words at the beginning of successive clauses	1
5764421352	Epistrophe	repetition of the same word or group of words at the end of successive clauses	2
5764421353	Anadiplosis	repetition of the last word if one clause at the beginning of the following clause	3
5764421354	Alliteration	repetition of consonants in two or more adjacent words	4
5764421355	Asyndeton	deliberate omission of conjunctions in a series of related clauses	5
5764421356	Oxymoron	apparently contradictory words appear in conjunction	6
5764421357	Onomatopoeia	the formation of a word from a sound	7
5764421358	Metaphor	implied comparison between two things of unlike nature	8
5764421359	Antithesis	the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas often in parallel structure	9
5764421360	Parallelism	use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same or similar in their construction, sound, meaning, or meter	10
5764421361	Epanalepsis	repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the same clause	11
5764421362	Polysyndeton	conjunctions are used repeatedly in quick succession often with no commas	12
5764421363	Chiasmus	words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order in the same or modified form	13
5764421364	Litotes	deliberate use of an understatement	14
5764421365	Paradox	a statement that, despite apparently sound reasoning from true premises, leads to a self-contradictory or a logically unacceptable conclusion	15
5764421366	Red Herring	an irrelevant topic is presented in order to divert attention from the original issue	16
5764421367	Either/ Or	oversimplification that offers a limited number of options when in reality more options are available	17
5764421368	Hasty Generalization	draws a general rule from a single perhaps atypical case	18
5764421369	Post hoc ergo propter hoc	"after this, therefore because of this" one event is said to be the cause of a later event simply because it occured earlier	19
5764421370	Ad hominem	"to the man" attacking a persons character or physical appearance instead of the argument	20
5764421371	Faulty analogy	an elaborate comparison of two things that are too dissimilar, it relies on very weak similarities of type and number	21
5764421372	Circular reasoning	occurs when the reasoner begins with what s/hes trying to end with	22
5764421373	Appeal to false authority	using a biased suspicious or incredible source to defend a conclusion	23
5764421374	Straw man	opponents argument is overstated or misrepresented in order to be more easily attacked or refuted	24