Ap Terms Language and Composition Flashcards

14593051251	Allusion	A reference to another work of literature, person, or event	0
14593051252	Anadiplosis	repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate	1
14593051852	Anaphora	the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses In every cry of every Man,In every infant's cry of fear,In every voice, in every ban	2
14593051853	Anastrophe	Inversion of the natural or usual word order Potaetoes I like	3
14593052646	Antimetabole	Repetition of words in reverse order Fair is foul, and foul is fair	4
14593052647	Antithesis	the direct opposite, a sharp contrast	5
14593053813	Aphorism	A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.	6
14593053814	Apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.	7
14593054267	Apposition	a grammar construction in which a noun (or noun phrase) is placed with another as an explanation My dog pup	8
14593058611	Assonance	Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity	9
14593059516	Asyndeton	omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words I came. I saw. leaving out the and in the middle	10
14593060301	Circumlocution	an indirect way of expressing something	11
14593060760	Consonance	Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity.	12
14593061489	Detonation	the literal meaning of a word	13
14593062266	Connotation	an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.	14
14593063066	Ellipsis	in a sentence, the omission of a word or words replaced by three periods	15
14593064683	Epanalepsis	repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause The king is dead, long live the king	16
14593065681	Epistrophe	the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences For no government is better than the men who compose it, and I want the best, and we need the best, and we deserve the best	17
14593066350	Euphemism	An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant	18
14593069743	Verbal Irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	19
14593069744	Situational Irony	An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected	20
14593070521	Dramatic Irony	when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't	21
14593070522	Malapropism	the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar	22
14593074261	Oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	23
14593074262	Paradox	A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.	24
14593075113	Parallelism	similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	25
14593075114	Periphrasis	substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name or of a proper name for a quality associated with the name	26
14593078010	Polysyndeton	the use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural	27
14593078018	Prosody	the patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry	28
14593087485	Satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.	29
14593091864	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	30
14593092313	Syntax	Sentence structure	31
14593097802	Litotes (understatement)	Understatement for effect, often used for irony	32