AP Lang - Chapter 2 Vocab Words

Antimetabole

Repetition of words in reverse order 

Hyperbole

Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis or to produce a comic or ironic effect; a overstatement to make a point

Archaic diction

Old-fashion or outdated choice of words

Mood

The feeling or atmosphere created by text

Juxtaposition 

Placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences 

Oxymoron

Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another

Antithesis

Opposition or contrast of ideas or words in a parallel construction

Simile

A figure of speech used to explain or clarify an idea by comparing it explicitly to something use, using words like, as, or, as, though 

Diction

speakers choice of words

Metaphor

figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as

Hortative sentence

Sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores or calls to action

Alliteration

Repetition of the same sound beginnings of several words or syllables in sequence

Tone

Speakers attitude toward the subject conveyed by the speakers stylistic and rhetorical choices

Parallelism

similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases or clauses

Zeugma

Use of two different words in grammatically similar way that produces, often incongruous (not harmonious), meanings 

syntax

arrangement of words into phrases, clauses, and sentences

Anaphora

Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines

Periodic sentence

sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end

rhetorical question

figure of speech in the form of question posed for theoretical effect rather than for the purpose of going an answer

personification 

attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea 

allusion

brief reference to a person, event, or place (real of fictious) or to work of art

anthropomorphism

The act of lending a human quality, emotion, or ambition to a non-human object or being