Language devices AP Lang

archaic language

using language that is antiquated (old-fashioned)

Colloquialism

Using language taht reflects the way people actually speak (slang)

Jargon

Using language that is specific to a place, period, position, or occupation

Cumulative sentence

Sentence where main clause is at the beginning and then more is added on

Hortative sentence

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

Imperative sentence

Sentence that commands or demands

Periodic sentence

Sentence where main clause is withheld until the end

Anaphora

Repetition of words/phrases at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, lines

Antimetabole/chiasmus

repetition of words in reverse order

Antithesis

Opposition or contrast of ideas/words in a parallel construction

Asyndeton

Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words (speeds up)

Juxtaposition

Placemnet of two things closely together to emphasize differences

Parallelism

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

Syndeton

Addition of multiple conjunctions between phrases, clauses, words (slows down)

Allusion

reference to another source

Extended metaphor

A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences

metonymy

The substitution of the name for an attribute of the thing meant

Oxymoron

Using two contradictory owrds next to each other

Paradox

A statement that seems contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true

Synedoche

Using one part to represent a whole

Zeugma

Using two different meanings of the same word within a sentence/line