AP English Language Vocabulary Flashcards

6729502045	Anaphora	Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines. Ex. "My life is my purpose. My life is my goal. My life is my inspiration."	0
6729502046	Antithesis	Opposite or contrast of ideas or words. Ex. "Speech is silver, but silence is gold."	1
6729504089	Asyndeton	Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses or words. Ex. "An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was thick, warm, heavy, sluggish."	2
6729506259	Apposition	A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun. Ex. "The Koeberg Nuclear Power Station, Africa's only nuclear power plant, was inaugurated in 1984 by the apartheid regime and is the major source of electricity for the Western Cape's 4.5 million population."	3
6729506260	Parallelism	Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases or clauses. Ex. "Like father, like son"	4
6729511213	Participial Phrase	A phrase containing a verb that functions as an adjective by modifying nouns. Ex. "Going to the store, my sister ate an apple."	5
6729516338	Epistrophe	The repetition of words or phrases comes at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences rather than at the beginning usually in 3. Ex. "There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem."	6
6729516339	Symploce	Combines anaphora and epistophe by repeating words both at the beginning and the end of phrases, clauses or sentences. Ex. "The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason."	7
6729527513	Anadiplosis	Repetition of the last word(s) of a sentence or clause at or near the beginning of the next.	8
6729527514	Conduplicatio	Repeats a key word from preceding clause or sentence at or near beginning of the next.	9
6729534280	Epanalepsis	Repeating the beginning word(s) of a clause or sentence at the end.	10
6729537264	Periodic Sentence	Sentence who's main clause is withheld until the end.	11
6729568499	Dominant Impression	A quality, mood or atmosphere that reinforces the writer's purpose.	12
6729584150	Antimetabole	Repetition of words in reverse order.	13
6729585940	Cumulative Sentence	Sentence that completes the main idea of the beginning of a sentence and then builds and adds on.	14
6729588590	Hortative Sentence	Sentence that exhorts, advises or calls to action.	15
6729588591	Imperative Sentence	Sentence used to command, enjoin, implore or entreat.	16
6729592163	Inversion	Inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of subject-verb-object order).	17
6729592164	Juxtaposition	Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts.	18
6729595417	Metonymy	Using a single feature to represent the whole.	19
6729600738	Zeugma	Use of two different words in a grammatically similar way but producing different, often incongruous meanings. Ex. "His boat and his dreams sank."	20