Vocab Week 10 - AP Language Flashcards
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| 12099589277 | Synecdoche (sin-NECK-doh-key) | - a figure of speech in which a part or a feature is used to describe the whole - "Wheels" to refer to a car, "pigskin" to refer to football, "John Hancock" to refer to a signature | 0 | |
| 12099631627 | Isocolon (EYE-suh-koh-lin) | - a form of parallelism in which the clauses are similar length and structure - The higher the climb, the longer the fall. | 1 | |
| 12099655285 | Onomatopoeia (on-nuh-mahn-uh-PEE-uh) | - a word that sounds like its meaning - boom, click, piss, pop, bang | 2 | |
| 12099668411 | Allegory (noun) | - a metaphor that extends for an entire narrative - In George Orwell's "Animal Farm," the lives of the animal's on the farm are allegorical for the major players in the 1917 Russian Revolution. | 3 | |
| 12099720532 | Allusion (noun) | - a reference within one text to another text, usually with the assumption that all listeners will understand the reference - Patrick Henry refers to a "siren song" in his "Speech in the Virginia Assembly". | 4 | |
| 12099749875 | Anastrophe (ann-ASS-troh-fee) | - purposely inverting word order for effect - | 5 |