AP Lang Cumulative Vocabulary (Unit 2)

This includes some more random vocab, as well as more rhetorical devices

Cogent (adj.)

clear and convincing

Lionize (v.)

treat someone as celebrity

Lamentation (n.)

expression of grief or sorrow

Lugubrious (n.)

looking or sounding sad

Fervor (n.)

intense or passionate feeling

Pander (v.)

indulge needs or habits of someone

Leviathan (n.)

sea serpent demon

Denunciation (n.)

putting something down

Lachrymose (adj.)

tearful; inducing tears

Shadowban (n.)

partially blocking a user and/or their content from certain areas of an online space

Jeremiad (n.)

long, mournful complaint

Din (n.)

loud, unpleasant noise

Foray (n./v.)

sudden attack into enemy territory

Anaphora

the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

Symploce

the repetition of a word at the beginning and end of successive clauses or sentences

Epistrophe

the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences

Amplification

adding more detail

Adnomination

repeating words with the same root word

Mesodiplosis

repetition of a word or phrase at the middle of every clause

Anadiplosis

the last word or phrase of one clause, sentence, or line is repeated at the beginning of the next

Zeugma

device in which a word applies to two things in different senses

Apostrophe

speaking to something that can’t respond

Metonym

where a related word or phrase is used to refer to an idea or object instead of its own name

Personification

applying human characteristics to non-human entities or objects

Metaphor

figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn't literally true, but helps explain an idea or make a comparison

Synedoche

a part is made to represent the whole

Simile

involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind

Objectification

degrading someone to the status of a mere object

Antithesis

an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of each other

Chiasmus

in which words or concepts are repeated in reverse order

Parallelism

grammatical technique that uses identical grammatical structures for related words, phrases, or clauses

Paradox

statement that contradicts itself, but is also true

Juxtaposition

places different elements side by side in order to emphasize their differences

Oxymoron

contradictory terms appear in conjunction

Idiom

short expression that is peculiar to a language, people, or place

Hyperbole

using extreme exaggeration to emphasize a feeling, situation, or issue

Synaesthesia

activating multiple senses at once

Understatement

literary device used to downplay a situation as less serious, less significant, or smaller than it really is

Assonance

repetition of a vowel sounds

Rhyme

correspondence of sound between words

Dissonance

lack of harmony

Homonym

same spelling or pronunciation but different meanings

Alliteration/Consonance

repeating the same sound at the beginning of multiple words/repetition of only consonant sounds

Onomatopoeia

formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named