AP Language Style Elements Flashcards

p.78-80 in the Language of Composition

14752780405	alliteration	repetition of the same soung beginning several words or syllables in sequence	0
14752780406	allusion	brief reference to a person, event, or place or to a work of art	1
14752780407	anaphora	repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines	2
14752780408	antimetabole	repetition of words in reverse order	3
14752780409	antithesis	opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction	4
14752780410	archaic diction	old-fashioned or outdated choice of words	5
14752780411	asyndeton	omission of conjuction between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words	6
14752780412	cumulative sentence	sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on	7
14752780413	hortative sentence	sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats implores or calls to action	8
14752780414	imperative sentence	sentence used to cammand or enjoin	9
14752780415	inversion	inverted order of words in a sentence	10
14752780416	juxtaposition	placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities of differences	11
14752780417	metaphor	compares two things without using like or as	12
14752780418	oxymoron	paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another	13
14752780419	parallelism	similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words or phrases, making them similar in form	14
14752780420	periodic sentence	sentence where the main clause is withheld until the end	15
14752780421	personification	giving lifelike quality and characteristics to inanimate objects	16
14752780422	rhetorical question	question that creates dramatic effect doesn't require an answer	17
14752780423	synedoche	figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole	18
14752780424	zeugma	use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different meanings	19