AP Lang Flashcards

14466750157	Ethos	Ones credibility as a speaker and writer	0
14466750158	Logos	The intellectual power of one's speech or writing	1
14466750159	Pathos	The emotional power of one's speech or writing	2
14466750160	Metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	3
14466750161	Simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	4
14466750162	Allusion	A reference to another work of literature, person, or event	5
14466750163	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	6
14466750164	Metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	7
14466750165	Personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	8
14466750166	Zeugma	use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings	9
14466750167	Onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	10
14466750168	Hyperbole	exaggeration	11
14466750169	Litotes	A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite	12
14466750170	rhetorical question	figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer	13
14466750171	Hypophora	raising a question then proceeding to answer it	14
14466750172	Irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	15
14466750173	Oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	16
14466750174	Paradox	A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.	17
14466750175	Parallelism	similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	18
14466750176	Antithesis	the direct opposite, a sharp contrast	19
14466750177	Inverted Syntax	reversing the normal word order of a sentence	20
14466750178	Ellipsis	three periods (...) indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation	21
14466750179	Asyndeton	omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words	22
14466750180	Alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds	23
14466750181	Assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds	24
14466750182	Anaphora	the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses	25
14466750183	Epistrophe	the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences	26
14466750184	Anadiplosis	repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause	27
14466750185	Epanalepsis	repetition at the end of a clause of the word that occurred at the beginning of the clause	28
14466750186	Antimetabole	Repetition of words in reverse order	29
14466750187	Polysyndeton	Deliberate use of many conjunctions	30