AP Concepts Flashcards

14811893266	Alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds, good writers use a dash of it	0
14811896823	Allusion	A casual reference to a famous historical or literary figure/event. Reference to a story that we all share in a culture. Have to assume to audience gets allusion.	1
14811900200	Analogy	By emphasizing one or several points of likeness between two quite distinct subjects, With a stronger effect than similes and metaphors in clarifying.	2
14811900201	Anaphora	The repetition of a words or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses. --must have strong rhetorical impact	3
14811907487	Antithesis	juxtaposing direct opposites, creating a sharp contrast in a parallel grammatical structure	4
14811917955	Aphorism/Epigram	a terse, witty statement of truth	5
14811921878	Apostrophe	speaks/calls directly to an abstract or absent subject like the sun or wind	6
14811925755	Balanced Sentence	A more specific type of parallelism; a sentence composed of two parts that are roughly equal in length, importance, and grammatical structure; often by structuring a thought that counters an idea.	7
14811934875	Connotaion	The implied meaning of a word or phrase	8
14814981499	Cumulative Sentence		9
14814988388	Deduction		10
14814988389	Denotation		11