AP Lang: Funky Lit Terms

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Polysyndeton

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Technically a run-on sentence with two or more conjunctions.

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Anadiplosis

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Repetition of the end of a sentence, line, or clause at the beginning of the next one.

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Anaphora

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The repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or sentences, commonly in conjunction with climax and with parallelism.

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Epistrophe

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Ending each item in a series with the same word or words.

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Diacope

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A word or phrase is repeated after an interjection or interruption (Once more, o ye laurels, once more).

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Climax

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A figure of speech in which words, phrases, or clauses are arranged in order of increasing importance.

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Antithesis

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A rhetorical device that contrasts opposing ideas in a balanced structure.

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Chiasmus

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A rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures.

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Metonymy

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A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated.

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Synecdoche

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A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa.