AP LANG TROPES & SCHEMES QUIZ

Alliteration

repetition of same sound

Allusion

breif reference to something

Anaphora

repetition of a word/phrase at the beginning of sucessive phrases or clauses/lines

Antimetabole

repetition of words in reverse order

Antithesis

opposition or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction

Archaic Diction

old fashioned or outdated choice of words

Asyndeton

Omission of conjuctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words

Cumulative Sentence

Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence, and then builds and adds on

Horative Sentence

sentence that exhorts, advises, calls to action

Imperative Sentence

sentence used to command, enjoin, implore, or entreat

Inversion

Inverted order of words in a sentence

Juxtaposition

placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts

Metaphor

figure of speech that says one thing is another in order to explain by comparison

Metonymy

Using a single feature to represent the whole

Oxymoron

paradoxial juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another

Parallelism

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

Periodic Sentence

sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end

Personification

giving a lifelike quality to something

Rhetorical Question

figure of speech, rhetorical effect, instead of getting an answer

Zeugma

use of two different words in a gramatically similar way but producing different, often incongruous , meanings