4811824430 | Active Voice | uses an easy to picture subject doing something | 0 | |
4811831224 | Allegory | a work of literature in which the meaning is found out side the text often representing abstract ideas as characters | 1 | |
4811838495 | Anadiplosis | using the last word of one sentence or clause to begin the next one | 2 | |
4811844139 | Analogy | a comparison between to seemingly dissimilar things | 3 | |
4811850360 | Anaphora | repeated words at the beginning of clauses to create meaning | 4 | |
4811854568 | Anecdote | A brief story used to illustrate a point or claim | 5 | |
4811862316 | Antimetabolite | ideas in the first half of a clause are reversed and repeated in the second half | 6 | |
4811870548 | Antithesis | a pair of balanced clauses that are linked by contrast | 7 | |
4811875457 | Apostrophe | speaking to an abstract quality an absent person or some thing as unreal as if it could answer | 8 | |
4811884244 | Asyndeton | omitting conjunctions deliberately to speed a line | 9 | |
4811889764 | Audience | the listener viewer or reader of a text | 10 | |
4811892782 | Auxesis | words or clauses in ascending order | 11 | |
4811896365 | Bias | a prejudice or preconceived notion that prevents a person from approaching a topic in a neutral or an objective way | 12 | |
4811902976 | characterization | the method by which the offer builds or reveals a character it can be direct or indirect | 13 | |
4811911465 | chiasmus | a pattern of inverted phrases or clauses | 14 | |
4811926603 | Conceit | a metaphor that compares to very different things using a central parallel | 15 | |
4811932730 | connotation | meanings or associations that readers have with a word beyond its dictionary definition or denotation often positive or negative they often greatly affect the authors tone | 16 | |
4811945528 | Deductive Logic | reasoning from one or more statements to reach a logically certain conclusion | 17 | |
4811954209 | Denotation | a words literal meaning | 18 | |
4811958083 | Details | words that are used by an author to make something seem real | 19 |
AP English Language Flashcards
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