AP English Language CH2 Vocab Flashcards

11025290808	Alliteration	the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.	0
11025292531	Allusion	A reference to another work of literature, person, or event	1
11025296982	Anaphora	the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines	2
11025302000	Antimetabole	Repetition of words in reverse order	3
11025303929	Antithesis	opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction	4
11025307353	Archaic diction	Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words.	5
11025313327	Asyndeton	omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words	6
11025318635	Cumulative sentence	sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on	7
11025322093	Hortative sentence	sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action	8
11025325111	Imperative sentence	sentence used to command or enjoin	9
11025327499	Inversion	inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order)	10
11025330048	Juxtaposition	Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts	11
11025333061	Metaphor	figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as	12
11025337268	Oxymoron	paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another	13
11025339105	Parallelism	similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	14
11025344247	Periodic sentence	sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end	15
11025346233	Personification	attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea	16
11025348300	Rhetorical question	figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer	17
11025351011	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole	18
11025356020	Zeugma	use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings	19