AP Terminology

A figure of speech involving the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of consecutive sentences or clauses.

• Aphostrophe

• Anachronism

• Assonance

• Anaphora

Something or someone that is out of its time period or historical context, often appearing in a place or setting where it doesn't belong.

• Anaphora

• Assonance

• Allusion

• Anachronism

A figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole, or the whole is used to represent a part.

• Chiasmus

• Consonance

• Synecdoche

• Anachronism

A literary device in which a speaker directly addresses someone or something that is not present or is an abstract concept.

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Apostrophe

• Allusion

A rhetorical device in which the order of words or phrases is reversed in the second half of a sentence or phrase to create a parallel structure.

• Synecdoche

• Consonance

• Chiasmus

• Assonance

A traditional form of Japanese poetry consisting of three lines with a 5-7-5 syllable pattern.

• Sonnet

• Ode

• Haiku

• Elegy

The repetition of vowel sounds within a line

• Apostophe

• Assonance

• Allusion

• Vowelance

When a word is used in a sentence once, while conveying two different meanings at the same time

• chiasmus

• zeugma

• anaphora

• consonance

The repetition of consonant sounds within a line

• chiasmus

• consonance

• assonance

• anaphora

A rhetorical device in which conjunctions (such as "and" or "but") are intentionally omitted from a series of related clauses

• asyndeton

• aphostrophe

• assonance

• anachronism