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2014 AP Comp. Part 1
2014 AP Comp. part 1 summer assignment
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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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