Terms for AP English, Page 1 and 2
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| 10185827705 | allegory | a symbolic representation; a story, picture, or play employing representation; personify an abstraction like hope or freedom | 0 | |
| 10185827706 | alliteration | repetition of sounds, especially initial constant sounds in two or more neighboring words; to reinforce meaning, unify ideas, supply a musical sound, and/or echo the sense of passage | 1 | |
| 10185827707 | allusion | a direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art; can be historical, literary, religious, topical, or mythical | 2 | |
| 10185827708 | ambiguity | the multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage | 3 | |
| 10185827709 | analogy | a similarity or comparison of two different things that are similar in some way; can explain something unfamiliar by associating it with or pointing out its similarity to something more familiar; also makes writing more vivid, imaginative, or intellectually engaging | 4 | |
| 10185827710 | antecedent | the word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun; if in a sentence it is talking about a dentist and then the passage says "he", the "he" refers to the dentist, which makes it this | 5 | |
| 10185827711 | antithesis | the opposite or contrast of ideas; the direct opposite | 6 | |
| 10185827712 | aphorism | a terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle; can be a memorable summation of the author's point | 7 | |
| 10185827713 | apostrophe | a figure of speech in which the poet addresses an absent person, an abstract idea, or a thing such as liberty or love; it is an address to someone or something that cannot answer; may add familiarity or emotional intensity | 8 | |
| 10185827714 | atmosphere | the emotional nod created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by author's choice of objects that described; description of weather can indicate it; frequently foreshadows events; can create mood | 9 | |
| 10185827715 | caricature | a verbal description, the purpose of which is to exaggerate or distort, for comic effect, a person's distinctive physical features or other characteristics | 10 | |
| 10185827716 | clause | a grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb | 11 | |
| 10185827717 | colloquial/colloquialism | the use of slang or informalities in speech or writing. Not generally acceptable for formal writing; give a work a conversational, familiar tone; expressions in writing include local or regional dialects | 12 | |
| 10185827718 | conceit | a fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects; displays intellectual cleverness as a result of the unusual comparison being made | 13 | |
| 10222172798 | connotation | the non-literal, associative meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning; may involve ideas, emotions or attitudes | 14 | |
| 10222172799 | denotation | the strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color | 15 | |
| 10222172800 | diction | related to style, refers to the writer's word choices, especially with regard to their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness; formal, informal, ornate or plain, etc. | 16 | |
| 10222172801 | didactic | from the Greek, literally means "teaching"; teachings of morals and ethical principles | 17 | |
| 10222172802 | euphemism | from the Greek for "good speech"; are a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept; may adhere to standards of social or political correctness or to add humor or ironic understatement | 18 | |
| 10222172803 | extended metaphor | a metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work | 19 | |
| 10222172804 | figurative language | writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid | 20 | |
| 10222172805 | figure of speech | a device used to produce figurative language; many compare dissimilar things; include apostrophe, hyperbole, irony, metaphor, oxymoron, paradox, personification, simply, synecdoche, and understatement | 21 | |
| 10222172806 | generic conventions | this term describes traditions for each genre; they differentiate an essay and journalistic writing or an autobiography and political writing | 22 | |
| 10222172807 | genre | the major category into which a literary work fits (eg prose, poetry, and drama); prose divides into fiction or nonfiction, poetry into lyric, dramatic narrative, epic, etc., drama into tragedy, comedy, melodrama, farce, etc. | 23 | |
| 10222172808 | homily | this term literally means "sermon," but more informally, it can include any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice | 24 | |
| 10222172809 | hyperbole | a figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement; Greek meaning is "overshoot"; have a comic effect, could be serious; produces irony; opposite of it is understatement | 25 | |
| 10222172810 | imagery | the sensory details or figurative language used to describe arouse emotion or represent abstractions; could be on physical level, the five senses: visual, auditory, tactile (touch), gustatory (taste), and olfactory (smell); can also represent more than one thing, on a different level | 26 | |
| 10222172811 | inference/infer | to draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented (an educated guess) | 27 |
