Vocab AP Flashcards

14746096262	Alliteration	the repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of words	0
14746096263	Allusion	brief reference to a person, event, or place (real or fictitious) or to a work of art	1
14746096264	Rhetoric	the use of language with the intent to persuade or argue	2
14746096265	Antithesis	opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction	3
14746096266	archaic	old fashioned or outdated choice of words	4
14746096267	cumulative sentence	sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on	5
14746096268	imperative sentence	sentence used to command or enjoin	6
14746096269	Juxtaposition	Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts	7
14746096270	Metaphor	a figure of speech that says one thing is another in order to explain by comparison	8
14746096271	Oxymoron	paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another	9