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Review for Final
AP English 3
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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” |
| Ad Hominem Fallacy | appealing to feelings or prejudices rather than intellect |
| Anaphora | repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect |
| Antistrophe | the repetition of words in reversed order |
| Apostrophe | the addressing of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically |
| Archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies |
| Assonance | repetition of vowels without repetition of consonants (as in stony and holy) used as an alternative to rhyme in verse |
| Asyndeton | omission of the conjunctions that ordinarily join coordinate words or clauses (as in “I came, I saw, I conquered”) |
| Caesura | a usually rhetorical break in the flow of sound in the middle of a line of verse |
| Catachresis | use of the wrong word for the context |
| Chiasmus | an inverted relationship between the syntactic elements of parallel phrases (as in Goldsmith's to stop too fearful, and too faint to go) |
| Coordination | the harmonious functioning of parts for effective results |
| Deductive Reasoning | the deriving of a conclusion by reasoning; specifically : inference in which the conclusion about particulars follows necessarily from general or universal premises |
| Inductive Reasoning | inference of a generalized conclusion from particular instances |
| Didactic | designed or intended to teach |
| Ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| Epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| End-Stopped | marked by a logical or rhetorical pause at the end |
| Enjambment | the running over of a sentence from one verse or couplet into another so that closely related words fall in different lines |
| Heroic Couplet | a rhyming couplet in iambic pentameter |
| 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!” |
| litotes | understatement, esp. that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in “not bad at all.” |
| 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 |
| Periodic Sentence | Sentence whose main clause appears at its end. |
| Picaresque | Characteristic of a genre of Spanish satiric novel dealing with the adventures of a roguish hero |
| Polysyndeton | repetition of conjunctions in close succession (as in we have ships and men and money and stores) |
| 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 |
| 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”) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Tautology | needless repetition of an idea, statement, or word |
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