AP Language Tropes and Scheme Flashcards

7273315090	Alliteration	Repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence.	0
7273316201	Allusion	a Brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art.	1
7273319856	Anaphora	Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines.	2
7273322624	Antithesis	The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas.	3
7273324032	Antimetabole	Repetition of words in reverse order	4
7273324749	Archaic diction	Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words	5
7273325688	Asyndeton	Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words	6
7273327362	Cumulative sentence	A sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence, and then builds and adds on.	7
7273328721	Hortative sentence	A sentence that exhorts, advises, calls to actions	8
7273330344	Imperative sentence	A sentence used to command, enjoin, implore, or entreat	9
7273331213	Inversion	Inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order)	10
7273336720	Juxtaposition	The placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts	11
7273338037	Metaphor	Figure of speech that says one thing is another in order to explain by comparison	12
7273341265	Metonymy	Using a single feature to represent the whole	13
7273341782	Oxymoron	Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another	14
7273343160	Parallelism	Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	15
7273344668	Periodic sentence	Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end	16
7273346625	Personification	Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or idea	17
7273348331	Rhetorical question	Figure of speech int he form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer	18
7273350779	Zeugma	The use of two different words in a grammatically similar way but producing different, often incongruous, meanings	19