Mrs. Hot's AP English
Terms
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- metonymy
- using a single feature to represent the whole
- antithesis
- opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction
- Trope
- involves the alterations in the usual meaning of words or phrases (diction)
- oxymoron
- paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another
- archaic diction
- old-fasioned or outdated choice of words
- asyndeton
- omission of conjuctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words
- hortative sentence
- sentence that exhorts, advises, calls to action
- hyperbole
- deliberate exaggeration for effect
- allusion
- brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art
- metaphor
- describing one thing in terms of another, very different thing
- irony
- writing/ saying something opposite of what one means
- onomatopeia
- refers to the use of words whose sound reinforces their meaning
- anaphora
- repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines
- personification
- giving human qualities to non-human or inanimate objects
- imperitive sentenve
- sentence used to command, enjoin, implore, or entreat
- zeugma
- use of two different words in a grammatically similar way but producing different, often incongruous, meanings
- alliteration
- repetition of the same sound beginning several words in sequence
- cumulative sentenve
- sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence, and then builds and adds on
- simile
- comparison of one aspect of two unlike things; uses like or as
- rhetorical question
- a question that does not require an answer
- apostrophe
- addressing a person not present or an abstraction
- euphemism
- you substitute less pungent words for hard ones, with excellent ironic effect
- periodic sentence
- sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end
- antimetabole
- repetition of words in reverse order
- parallelism
- similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses
- juxtaposition
- placement of two thingsclosely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts
- inversion
- inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order)