Chapter 2 Vocabulary AP Language Flashcards

14969126170	Alliteration	repetition of the same sound beginning several words or syllables in sequence	0
14969126171	Allusion	Brief reference to a person, event, place, or work of art	1
14969126172	Anaphora	repetition of a word of phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines	2
14969126173	Antimetabole	repetition of words in reverse order	3
14969126174	Antithesis	Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction	4
14969126175	Archaic Diction	Old fashioned or outdated choice of words	5
14969126176	Asyndeton	Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses or words	6
14969126177	Cumulative Sentence	Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on	7
14969126178	Horative Sentence	Sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action	8
14969126179	Imperative Sentence	Sentence used to command or enjoin	9
14969126180	Inversion	Inverted order of words in a sentence	10
14969126181	Juxtaposition	Placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences	11
14969126182	Metaphor	Figure of speech that compare two things without using like or as	12
14969126183	Oxymoron	Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another	13
14969126184	Parallelism	Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases or clauses	14
14969126185	Periodic Sentence	Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end	15
14969126186	Personification	Attribution of lifelike quality to inanimate object or idea	16
14969126187	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
14969126188	Synedoche	figure of speech that uses a part to represent a whole	18
14969126189	Zeugma	Use of two different words in grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous meanings	19