AP English Language Chapter 2 Flashcards

15490201145	Periodic Sentence	Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end.	0
15490218683	Personification	Attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea.	1
15490238196	Rhetorical Question	Figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer.	2
15490261413	Synedoche	Figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole.	3
15490275315	Catalogue	A list of things to create a rhetorical effect.	4
15490284020	Hyperbole	Exaggeration used for effect or for humor.	5
15490315664	Onomatopoeia	Words which suggest or sound like their meanings.	6
15490324025	Paradox	A statement which seems contradictory but is actually true.	7
15490356804	Alliteration	Repetition of the same sound beginning several words or syllables in sequence.	8
15490373829	Allusion	Brief reference to a person, event, or place (real or fictitious) or to a work of art.	9
15490396353	Anaphora	Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines.	10
15490420045	Antithesis	Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction.	11
15490433172	Archaic Diction	Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words.	12
15490447085	Asyndeton	Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words.	13
15490471120	Cumulative Sentence	Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on.	14
15490487585	Imperative Sentence	Sentence used to command or enjoin.	15
15490493969	Inversion	Inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order).	16