AP Language - Syntax Devices Flashcards

11083389253	Coordination	placing two phrases or clauses on an equal level so that they receive equal emphasis	0
11083392268	Subordination	making one idea in a sentence (the dependent clause) less important than another (the independent clause)	1
11083394532	Parenthesis	inserting some verbal unit that interrupts the normal flow of the sentence.	2
11083399028	Catalogue	listing three of more items	3
11083403485	Juxtaposition	placing elements next to each other to create some relationship between the ideas they express	4
11083411108	Parallelism	using the same grammatical structure to express similar ideas	5
11083414309	Balance	a specialized form of parallelism in which the sentence or some part of it can literally be divided into halves at a semicolon or coordinating conjunction, with exactly the same structure in each half	6
11083425366	Antithesis	using a similar form in two parts of a sentence to express contrasting meanings	7
11083431488	Repetition	using the same word, phrase, or clause again to place emphasis on that idea	8
11083439121	Doubling	repeating the same idea by adding a conjunction and the same word or a synonym	9
11083449432	Incremental repetition	repeating the same phrase but with a new twist, emphasizing the idea	10
11083456245	Anaphora	repeating the same word or group of words at the beginnings of successive clauses	11
11083460222	Chiasmus	reversing the grammatical order to successive clauses	12
11083469939	Antimetabole	repeating the exact words in reverse order in successive clauses	13
11083473481	Anadiplosis	repeating last word of clause at beginning of next clause	14
11083476596	Epanalepsis	repeating the initial word or phrase of a clause at the end	15
11083482989	Epistrophe	repeating the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses	16
11083487525	Asyndeton	omitting conjunctions in a series of related clauses	17
11083491605	Polysyndeton	using conjunctions between every item in a list, including clauses.	18