AP Lang Terms

Figure of speech where author/speaker addresses an object, person or idea that is not present.

• Allegory

• Apostrophe

• Aphorism

• Anaphora

One of the devices of repetition, in which the same expression (word or words) is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences.

• Apostrophe

• Anaphora

• Aphorism

• Ambiguity

Figure of balance in which two contrasting ideas are intentionally juxtaposed; usually through parallel structure

• Antithesis

• Colloqualism

• Euphemism

• Juxtaposition

More agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept.

• Aphorism

• Euphemism

• Litotes

• Chiasmus

Pick the term that matches the definition: an urgent need or demand, a spark

• Chiasmus

• Allusion

• Line of reasoning

• Exigence

What does "Antecedent" mean?

• The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun

• The literal, explicit meaning of a word

• Language or dialect of a particular country

• Language or dialect of a regional clan or group

A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

• aphorism

• oxymoron

• fallacy

• metonomy

Two items, ideas, characters, etc placed side by side for comparison. Sometimes intentional, Sometimes Not.

• Oxymoron

• Juxtaposition

• Allegory

• Litotes

The meaning of a word, phrase, or sentence is uncertain. There could be more than one meaning

• Fallacy

• Ambiguity

• Didactic

• Chiasmus

The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to literal meaning

• Hypophora

• Metonomy

• Allegory

• Litotes