AP Language Terminology Flashcards

7959920755	Assonance	The sergeant asked him to bomb the lawn with hotpots. OR Try to light the fire	0
7959920756	Anaphora	This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars.	1
7959920757	Epistrophre	What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny compared to what lies within us.	2
7959920758	Anadiplosis	The love of wicked men converts to fear, That fear to hate, and hate turns one or both To worthy danger and deserved death.	3
7959920759	Parallelism	She tried to make her pastry fluffy, sweet, and delicate. OR Singing a song or writing a poem is joyous. OR Perch are inexpensive; cod are cheap; trout are abundant; but salmon are best.	4
7959920760	Zeugma	She looked at the object with suspicion and a magnifying glass.	5
7959920761	Antithesis	It can't be wrong if it feels so right.	6
7959920762	Antimetabole	Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.	7
7959920763	Anastrophe	He spoke of times past and future, and dreamt of things to be.	8
7959920764	Isocolon	That government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth.	9
7959920765	Parenthesis	[I]n Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing.	10
7959920766	Appositive	Maybe the Toronto Maple Leafs, Derek's favorite team, or the hometown junior league team, the Melfort Mustangs.	11
7959920767	Asyndeton	An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was thick, warm, heavy, sluggish.	12
7959920768	Polysyndeton	The dinner was so good; I ate the chicken, and the salad, and the turkey, and the wild rice, and the bread, and the mashed potatoes, and the cranberry sauce.	13
7959920769	Ellipsis	"I went to the mall on Monday, and she on Sunday."	14
7959920770	Synecdoche	Ask for her hand OR Lend me your eye	15
7959920771	Metonymy	The crown The press The white house	16
7959920772	Personification	The car sputtered and coughed before starting.	17
7959920773	Hyperbole	I'm so angry, I could kill him! OR I've asked you not to do that a thousand times.	18
7959920774	Litotes	He's not the friendliest person. OR It's not exactly a walk in the park.	19
7959920775	Situational Irony	Referring to WWI as "the war to end all wars"	20
7959920776	Dramatic Irony	The movie "The Truman Show", where only Truman doesn't know that he's being filmed at all times.	21
7959920777	Verbal Irony	Alanis Morissette when the man whose plane is going down says, "Well, isn't this nice."	22
7959920778	Oxymoron	"I am a deeply superficial person." OR Deafening silence	23
7959920779	Paradox	"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."	24
7959920780	Motif	Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s uses "I have a dream" to unify various ideas	25
7959920781	Cliché	"It's not you, it's me" OR "Don't put all of your eggs in one basket"	26
7959920782	Imagery	The stench of sulfur rose from the chimneys, the stench of caustic lyes from the tanneries, and from the slaughterhouses came the stench of congealed blood.	27
7959920783	Simile	You are like a hurricane: there's calm in your eye, but I'm getting blown away	28
7959920784	Metaphor	For ever since that time you went away, I've been a rabbit burrowed in the wood OR Sly as a fox	29
7959920785	Alliteration	Why not waste a wild weekend at Westmore Water Park?	30
7959920786	Jargon	twizzles, toe-loops, salchows, and spirals	31
7959920787	Allusion	The phrase "Catch-22" has entered the English language as a situation that has no good solution, and is an allusion to Heller's novel.	32
7959920788	Analogy	GREEN : COLOR :: ORCHID : FLOWER OR As quiet as a mouse	33
7959920789	Euphemism	Gosh darn it; what the F; she's a piece of work;shoot, shut the front door, dang, fudge	34
7959920790	Symbol	Garden of Eden The serpent in this story represents wickedness and the apple is a symbol for knowledge.	35
7959920791	Rhetorical Question	Does it look like I care?	36