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2014 AP Comp. Part 1

2014 AP Comp. part 1 summer assignment

TermDefinition
enallage a grammar mistake that substitutes one grammar form for another.
asyndeton the use of the same conjunction several times.
polysyndeton the over use of the same conjunction.
paradiastole the repetition of a word at the beginning of a successive sentence.
hendiadys adding, substituting, and/or rearranging the conjunctions in a sentence.
metaplasmus purposely misspelling words.
brachylogia not using a conjunction between words and phrases.
proparalepsis addition of letters to end of a word.
epenthesis the insertion of a sound or letter into a word.
proparalepsis adding letters to the beginning of a word.
aphaearsis leaving out letters from the beginning of a word.
syncope leaving out letters from the middle of a word.
apocope leaving out letters from the end of a word.
synalopha removing a vowel from a word and combining the two words.
antisthecons the substitution of a letter in a word.
metatheses the adding, substituting, and/or arrangement between two words.
ellipsis excluding a word that causes a word to make sense, usually written as...
zeugma one or more ellipses in a sentence.
syllepses leaving out a pun and using an ellipsis.
absolute ellipsis the omission or writing of a word or words that are superfluous or able to be understood from contextual clues.
scesis onamation leaving out the only verb in a sentence.
enthymene leaving out a logically implied cause or sentence.
anapodoton excluding a cause.
antiptosis substituting a prepositional phrase for an adjective.
aporia talking about not being able to talk about talking about something.
praecisio excluding everything.
tmesis writing one word as two.
hyperbaton incorrectly placing an element in a sentence.
anastrophe reversal of the order of words.
hysteron-proteron reversal of words.
hypallage switching words to change the meaning of the contex.
parenthesis a word, cause, or sentence inserted as an explanation that is grammatically incorrect.
anthimeria substituting one part of one sentence for another.
antiptosis substituting a prepositional phrase for an adjective.
metalepsis substituting one word for another showing to be in two situations.
catachresis incorrectly substituting one word for another, with no real connection between the two.
abusio another way to say catachresis... incorrectly substituting one word for another, neither relate on any way.
synecdoche substituting a large part of a whole sentence for something else.
pleonasm the addition of unnecessary words.
asterismos adding a word to a sentence to bring attention to it.
periphrasis leaving out words of a sentence to make it shorter.
accumilato repeating words.
congeries another name for accumulatio... repeating words.
antithesis repeating in a sentence in a negative way.
epanorthosis adding a correction to the same sentence the mistake was made in.
praeteritio leaving out what you want to say and writing the opposite.
polyptoton repeating the same word, with a different ending.
antanaclasis the repeating of the same word, but in a different sense.
ploce repeating a word in both a general and restricted sense.
isolcolon repetition of grammatical forms in the same paragraph or sentence.
reptito repeating a word in strange places in the same sentences.
epizeuxis immediately repeating several words in the same sentence.
diacope repeating a word in the same sentence more than once, with only one or two words in between.
anaphora repeating the first word of a sentence several times in the same or different sentence.
epistrophe repeating the last word of a sentence or phrase several times in the same sentence or phrase.
symploce repeating both the beginnings and endings of a sentence in the same sentence or paragraph.
epanalepsis repeating the same word at the beginning of a sentence at the end of the sentence.
inclusio repeating the beginning of a passage at the end.
anadiptosis substituting the modifying object for an adjective.
gradatio repeating words at the end.
auxesis arranging your words/sentences from most important down.
palindrome repeating the same letters in a different order.
epanados repeating the same words in a sentence, but with a different order.
antimetabole the repeating of the same words in reverse order which is also a contrast.
chiasmus repeating the same phrase in a different order throughout a passage.
hypozeuxis not using one or more ellipses in a sentence.
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