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70 AP Lang Terms
Stupendous Seventy AP Language Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Anadiplosis | repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next |
| Anaphora | repetition of a word, phrase or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row |
| Antithesis | a balancing of two opposite or contrasting words, phrases or clauses |
| Aphorism | a pithy observation that contains a general truth |
| Apposition | a construction in which a noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent |
| Asyndeton | commas used with no conjunction to separate a series of words |
| Cumulative Sentence | a sentence structure in which a main clause is followed by subordinate phrases and clauses |
| Epistrophe | the repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses |
| Hyperbole | a bold overstatement or extravagant expression of fact, used for serious or comic effect |
| Jargon | a characteristic language of a particular group |
| Metonymy | a figure of speech that uses the name of an object, person, or idea to represent something with which it is associated |
| Onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sound copies the sound of the sound of the thing or process that they describe |
| Parody | imitates the serious materials and manner of a particular work, or the characteristic style of a particular author, and applies it to a lowly or grossly discordant subject |
| Periodic sentence | sentence that places the main idea or central complete thought at the end of the sentence, after all introductory elements |
| Rhetorical question | a question that requires no answer; it is used to draw attention to a point and is generally stronger that a direct statement |
| Synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent a whole |
| Zeugma | a device that joins together two apparently incongruous things by applying a verb or adjective to both which only really applies to one of them |
| Rhetoric | anything with a message |
| Syntax | structure of diction and word order |
| Rhetorical purpose | what the writer/rhetor is writing |
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