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First AP Vocab Quiz
AP Vocab Quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| annotation | explanatory or critical notes on a text |
| diction | choice of words |
| syntax | the arrangement of words; sentence structure |
| tropes | rhetorical figures of speech that consist of a play on words.. (using a word in a way other than what it is considered its literal or normal form, artful diction, metaphors, simile, personification, hyperbole) |
| allegory | sustained metaphor continued through whole sentences or even a whole discourse |
| allusion | brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art |
| archaic diction | old-fashioned or outdated words |
| hyperbole | using exaggeration for dramatic effect |
| metaphor | an explanation of an object or idea through juxtaposition of disparate things with a similiar characteristic, such as describing a courageous person as having a "heart of a lion" |
| metonymy | using a single feature to represent the whole |
| personification | attribution of human qualities to an inanimate object or idea |
| simile | comparing two unalike things using like, as, than, resembles |
| synecdoche | creates a play on words by referring to something with a related concept as in "hired hands" for workers |
| schemes | figures of speech that change the normal arrangement of words in a sentence's structure (parallelisms, juxtapositions, antithesis) |
| alliteration | the repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| anaphora | repetition of same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses |
| anastrophe | inversion of usual word order |
| antithesis | juxtaposition of opposing or contrasting ideas |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds, most commonly within a short passage of verse |
| asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between related clauses |
| chiasmus | reversal of grammatical structures in successive clauses |
| climax | arrangement of words in order of increasing importance |
| cumulative sentence | adding details that support an important idea in the beginning of the sentence |
| ellipsis | omission of words |
| hortative sentence | sentence that exhorts, advises, calls to action |
| imperative sentence | sentence used to command, enjoin, implore, or entreat |
| inversion | sentence in which the verb precedes the subject |
| isocolon | use of parallel structures of the same length in successive clauses |
| juxtaposition | placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts |
| oxymoron | the juxtaposition of two words that have opposite meanings |
| parallelism | use of similar structures in two or more clauses |
| parenthesis | insertion of a clause or sentence in a place where it interrupts the natural flow of the sentence |
| periodic sentence | sentence that builds toward and ends with the main clause |
| polysyndeton | use of several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted ("as he ran and jumped and laughed for joy") |
| rhetorical question | figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than purpose of an answer |
| tricolon | use of three parallel structures of the same length in independent clauses |
| zeugma | use of a word to modify or govern two or more words, used in such a manner that it apples to each in a different case, or makes sense with only one |
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