AP Language Summer Work Flashcards

14528829037	Hyperbole	Exaggerated Statements or claims not meant to be taken literally	0
14528829038	Understatement	Presentation of some thing as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is	1
14528829039	Litotes	Ironic understatement using a word that expresses an opposite claim from the saying	2
14528829040	Antithesis	A person or thing that is opposite of someone or something else	3
14528829041	Hypophora	Question that is immediately answered	4
14528829042	Rhetorical question	Question that has no answer	5
14528829043	Procatalepsis	When the speaker raises an objection to their own argument then immediately answers it	6
14528829044	Distinctio	When a writer elaborate on the definition of a word to make sure there is no misunderstanding	7
14528829045	Simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	8
14528829046	Metaphor	Comparison not using like or as	9
14528829047	Analogy	Comparison between two things for the purpose of an explanation	10
14528829048	Allusion	A reference to a person place thing or event	11
14528829049	Eponym	Referring to a famous person to link their attributes with someone else	12
14528829050	Setentia	A quote or wise saying	13
14528829051	Exemplum	An example moralizing a story	14
14528829052	Climax	The most intense part of the story	15
14528829053	Parallelism	similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	16
14528829054	Chiasmus	Rhetorical literary figure where words are repeated in reverse order	17
14528829055	Anadiplosis	repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause	18
14528829056	Conduplicatio	Repetition of a word from any point in a sentence and placing it at the beginning of the next sentence	19
14528829057	Metabasis	A brief statement of what has been said and what will follow	20
14528829058	Parenthesis	Device used to insert additional info without messing up the flow of your writing	21
14528829059	Apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.	22
14528829060	Enumeratio	A list of details about something	23
14528829061	Antanagoge	Placing a negative point next to a positive one so the negative points are downplayed	24
14528829062	Epithet	Attaching a descriptive adjective to a noun to bring a scene to life or evoke emotion	25
14528829063	Asyndeton	Leaves out conjunctions in a list or between classes	26
14528829064	Polysyndeton	Repetition of conjunctions in close succession	27
14528829065	Zeugma	When unexpected items in a sentence are linked together by a shared word	28
14528829066	Synecdoche	When a part is made to represent the whole, or vice versa	29
14528829067	Metonymy	the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant	30
14528829068	Hyperbaton	Rhetorical device when you arrange the words in your sentence in an unexpected order	31
14528829069	Aporia	Device used to express doubt about an idea	32
14528829070	Anaphora	Device where a writer repeats a word or phrase at the beginning of multiple clauses or sentences	33
14528829071	Epistrophe	Word or phrase repeated at the end of multiple clauses or sentences	34
14528829072	Symploce	Word or phrase repeated at the beginning and end of a sentence	35
14528829073	Amplification	Writers repeating something they said, while adding more detail and info to the original description	36
14528829074	Personification	Giving a non-human thing human like properties	37
14528829075	Parataxis	Listing a series of clauses with no conjunctions	38