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AP lang

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Anadiplosis   The last word of the clause begins the next clause, creating a connection of ideas important to the author's purpose in some way.  
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Anaphora   The deliberate repetition of a word of phrase at the beginning of several successive poetic lines, prose, sentences, clauses, or paragraphs.  
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Anastrophe   Inversion of the usual order of words.  
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Antithesis   An observation or claim that is in opposition to your claim or an author's claim.  
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Apostrophe (NOT the punctuation mark!)   prayer-like , this is a direct address to someone who is not present, to a deity or muse, or to some other  
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Asyndeton   The deliberate omission of conjunctions from a series of related independent clauses.  
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Chiasmus   A reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases  
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Deductive Reasoning   A logical process in which a conclusion is based on the concordance of multiple premises that are generally assumed to be true.  
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Ellipsis (not the punctuation mark!)   Where a thought is left incomplete or unfinished  
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Epanalepsis   This figure repeats the opening word or phrase at the end of the sentence to emphasize a statement or idea, but is not an ABBA reversal  
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Epistrophe   The ending of a series of lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences with the same word or words.  
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Ethos   One of the fundamental strategies of argumentation (credibility/ehtical)  
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Inductive reasoning   A logical argument that requires the use of examples, most like science, you get example after example  
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Juxtaposition   Making one idea more dramatic by placing it next to its opposite  
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Logos   An appeal to reason, when a writer tries to convince you of the logic of his argument (logic/statistics)  
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Metonymy   A minor figure of speech in which the name of one thing is substituted for another with which it is closely associated.  
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Paradox   A major figure speech in rhetorical analysis that seeks to create a mental discontinuity, which then forces the reader to pause and seek clarity.  
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Parentheticals (NOT the punctuation mark)   Phrases, sentences, and words inside parentheses  
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Pathos   An appeal to emotion, typically pathos arguments may use loaded words to make you feel guilty, lonely, worried  
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Polysyndeton   The use of consecutive coordinating conjunctions even when they are not needed.  
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Rhetorical shift   This occurs when the author of an essay significantly alters his or her diction, syntax, or both  
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Syllogism   In its basic form, this is a three part argument construction in which two premises lead to truth.  
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Synecdoche   A minor figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole, sometimes shows up in multiple choice questions  
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Synthesis   To unite or synthesize a variety of sources to achieve a common end  
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Tricolon   A sentence with three equally distinct and equally long parts  
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Zeugma   A minor device in which two or more elements in a sentence are tied together by the same verb or noun.  
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