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AP English 3

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Zeugma   the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words usually in such a manner that it applies to each in a different sense or makes sense with only one (as in “opened the door and her heart to the homeless boy”  
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Ad Hominem Fallacy   appealing to feelings or prejudices rather than intellect  
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Anaphora   repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect  
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Antistrophe   the repetition of words in reversed order  
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Apostrophe   the addressing of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically  
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Archetype   the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies  
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Assonance   repetition of vowels without repetition of consonants (as in stony and holy) used as an alternative to rhyme in verse  
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Asyndeton   omission of the conjunctions that ordinarily join coordinate words or clauses (as in “I came, I saw, I conquered”)  
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Caesura   a usually rhetorical break in the flow of sound in the middle of a line of verse  
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Catachresis   use of the wrong word for the context  
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Chiasmus   an inverted relationship between the syntactic elements of parallel phrases (as in Goldsmith's to stop too fearful, and too faint to go)  
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Coordination   the harmonious functioning of parts for effective results  
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Deductive Reasoning   the deriving of a conclusion by reasoning; specifically : inference in which the conclusion about particulars follows necessarily from general or universal premises  
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Inductive Reasoning   inference of a generalized conclusion from particular instances  
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Didactic   designed or intended to teach  
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Ellipsis   the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete  
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Epigram   a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought  
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End-Stopped   marked by a logical or rhetorical pause at the end  
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Enjambment   the running over of a sentence from one verse or couplet into another so that closely related words fall in different lines  
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Heroic Couplet   a rhyming couplet in iambic pentameter  
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inversion   any change from a basic word order or syntactic sequence, as in the placement of a subject after an auxiliary verb in a question or after the verb in an exclamation, as “When will you go?” and “How beautiful is the rose!”  
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litotes   understatement, esp. that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in “not bad at all.”  
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metonymy   a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part, as “scepter” for “sovereignty,” or “the bottle” for “strong drink,” or “count heads (or noses)” for “cou  
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Periodic Sentence   Sentence whose main clause appears at its end.  
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Picaresque   Characteristic of a genre of Spanish satiric novel dealing with the adventures of a roguish hero  
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Polysyndeton   repetition of conjunctions in close succession (as in we have ships and men and money and stores)  
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Semiotics   a general philosophical theory of signs and symbols that deals especially with their function in both artificially constructed and natural languages and comprises syntactics, semantics, and pragmatics  
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Syllogism   a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in “every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable”)  
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Synecdoche   a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole (as fifty sail for fifty ships), the whole for a part (as society for high society), the species for the genus (as cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as a creature for a man), or the  
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Synesthesia   a concomitant sensation; especially : a subjective sensation or image of a sense (as of color) other than the one (as of sound) being stimulated  
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Tautology   needless repetition of an idea, statement, or word  
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