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| 7182124640 | Subject A Exam | college entrance writing exam for UC's | 0 | |
| 7182125657 | EPT (English Placement Test) | college entrance exam for CSU's | 1 | |
| 7182126082 | Diction | the word choice the author uses | 2 | |
| 7182127344 | Denotation/Denotative diction/Denotative Language | to denote (to say it); what the author says | 3 | |
| 7182127952 | Connotation/Connotative diction/Connotative Language | to connote (to imply/to suggest it); what the author says | 4 | |
| 7182129352 | Register/Language Register | the level of formality of diction | 5 | |
| 7182129881 | Colloquialism/colloquial diction/langauge | Slang/casual conversation | 6 | |
| 7182130371 | Literary Device | Figurative language tool author uses to fancy up language | 7 | |
| 7182135176 | Rhetorical Device | anything an author uses to manipulate the text to manipulate the audience | 8 | |
| 7182143127 | Literal Language | Denotation | 9 | |
| 7182143288 | Figurative Language | Connotation | 10 | |
| 7182143533 | Color symbolism | In AP, every color has a significance | 11 | |
| 7184701450 | Bullet thesis | 1 sentence introductory paragraph | 12 | |
| 7184701594 | Claim/argument | what the author believes | 13 | |
| 7184701816 | Author's purpose | why the author wrote it (to inform, explain, etc) | 14 | |
| 7184703584 | Rite of Passage (ROP) | Book or text that has a character shift or change (must include an epiphany) | 15 | |
| 7184704154 | Autobiographical | text by and about the author | 16 | |
| 7184704324 | Biographical | text about someone else | 17 | |
| 7184704745 | Expository text | text that explains something | 18 | |
| 7184704950 | Prose | any text that is NOT poetry or drama | 19 | |
| 7184705178 | Narrative text | text with a narrator | 20 | |
| 7184705283 | First Person | an "I" pov | 21 | |
| 7184705446 | Third Person | a "he/she" pov | 22 | |
| 7184705626 | perspective | point of view | 23 | |
| 7184705801 | Charting a text | using a graphic organizer to annotate or take notes on a text | 24 | |
| 7184706176 | Paraphrase | to put in your own words | 25 | |
| 7184706379 | Prompt | The essay's question | 26 | |
| 7184706556 | Extent of validity | How correct is it? | 27 | |
| 7196220789 | imagery | a description that focuses on at least one of the five senses | 28 | |
| 7196221343 | Christ imagery | when a character represents Jesus Christ (sacrifice/martyr, leader/protector, stigmata) | 29 | |
| 7196224820 | Stigmata imagery | pain in head, hands, or feet to represent JC | 30 | |
| 7196225390 | Symbolism | 1 thing represents another | 31 | |
| 7196225858 | Parallel incidents | repeated events | 32 | |
| 7196225859 | Simile | a comparison using like or as | 33 | |
| 7196226266 | Metaphor | a direct comparison without like or as | 34 | |
| 7196226622 | Personification | giving human attributes to objects | 35 | |
| 7196227126 | Overstatement | an over exaggeration | 36 | |
| 7196227800 | Understatement | an under exaggeration | 37 | |
| 7196228673 | Alliteration/Alliterative diction | words start with the same sound | 38 | |
| 7196229111 | Oxymoron/oxymoronic diction | 2 opposites side by side | 39 | |
| 7196230815 | Onomatopoeia/onomatopoetic diction | word that means a sound | 40 | |
| 7196230816 | Tone | author's emotion in a text | 41 | |
| 7196231567 | Mood | atmosphere- the reader's emotion | 42 | |
| 7257693698 | Pathetic Fallacy | (fig. dev.) when nature or the environment symbolizes the character's or author's emotion | 43 | |
| 7257694321 | Assonance | (fig. dev.) (sound/auditory dev) repetition of vowel sounds in the middle or ends of words | 44 | |
| 7257694878 | Consonance | (fig. dev.) (sound/auditory dev) repetition of consonant sounds in the middle or ends of words | 45 | |
| 7257695366 | Repetition | (struc. dev.) repeating or restating the same content or form to achieve emphasis | 46 | |
| 7257696083 | Euphony/euphonic diction | (fig. dev.) pleasant sounding words (L,S,D) | 47 | |
| 7257696666 | Cacophony/cacophonous diction | (fig. dev.) harsh sounding words (K,X,T) | 48 | |
| 7257696967 | Euphemism | (fig. dev.) sugarcoating | 49 | |
| 7257697482 | Allusion/alluding/to allude | (fig. dev.) hinting at some other source | 50 | |
| 7257697581 | Anthropomorphism | (fig. dev.) giving human qualities to animals | 51 | |
| 7257697887 | Hyperbole/hyperbolic diction | (fig. dev.) overstatement | 52 | |
| 7257698443 | Litote | (fig. dev.) understatement | 53 | |
| 7257702031 | Paradox/paradoxical structure | (struc. dev.) contrast/contradiction | 54 | |
| 7257702364 | Analogy/analogous structure | (struc. dev.) comparison/similarity | 55 | |
| 7257702724 | Extended metaphor | (fig. dev.) metaphor that goes beyond a sentence | 56 | |
| 7257705191 | Literary conceit | (fig. dev.) academic register for extended metaphor | 57 | |
| 7257705666 | Omniscient | All knowing | 58 | |
| 7257705794 | Omnipresent | Everywhere | 59 | |
| 7257705997 | Omnipotent | All-Powerful | 60 | |
| 7257706141 | Internal Citation | In ¶5, the author states "blah blah." | 61 | |
| 7257706779 | External Citation | The author states "blah blah" (¶5). | 62 | |
| 7257707531 | To deconstruct/deconstruction | to take apart a text | 63 | |
| 7257707704 | To annotate/annotation | to take notes DIRECTLY on a text | 64 | |
| 7257707980 | dialect | using different words depending on where people are from | 65 | |
| 7257708185 | Vernacular | "accent" based on race or where people are from | 66 | |
| 7257709406 | Jargon | Language specific to a career | 67 | |
| 7257710460 | Rhetorical question | a question with no answer | 68 | |
| 7257710628 | Rogatio | a question followed by the answer | 69 | |
| 7257711608 | Structure | organization in a sentence, ¶, or whole text | 70 | |
| 7257712110 | Ellipses/Elliptical structure | omitted info | 71 | |
| 7310053503 | Subject Verb Agreement | The subject and verb must match in a sentence Ex. Eudora Welty writes an essay. | 72 | |
| 7310062043 | Parallelism/Parallel Structure | (struc. dev.) He went to the beach new the park on a Sunday. | 73 | |
| 7310114555 | Elongated Sentence | (Struc. Dev) a sentence with more than or equal to 7 words in it | 74 | |
| 7310114556 | Telegraphic Sentence | (Struc. Dev.) a sentence with les than or equal to 3 words in it | 75 | |
| 7310114557 | Grounds | Concrete details-fact | 76 | |
| 7310114558 | Warrants | Commentary-opinions | 77 | |
| 7310114559 | Syntax | (Struc. Dev.) word order | 78 | |
| 7310114560 | Loose Sentence/Paragraph | (Struc. Dev.) a sentence/paragraph with the subject at the BEGINNING Ex. The church is on the corner. | 79 | |
| 7310114561 | Periodic Sentence | (Struc. Dev.) a sentence/paragraph with the subject at the END Ex. There is a church on the corner. | 80 | |
| 7310114562 | Anaphora/anaphoric structure | (Struc. Dev.) 2+ sentences that start with the same word/phrase | 81 | |
| 7310114563 | Epistrophe/epistrophic structure | (Struc. Dev.) 2+ sentences that end with the same word/phrase | 82 | |
| 7310114564 | Sense of immediacy (SOI) | When the author puts the reader "in" the text by using devices | 83 | |
| 7310114565 | Juxtaposition/to juxtapose | (Struc. Dev.) to contrast | 84 | |
| 7310114566 | Personal/narrative anecdote | (Struc. Dev.) a story about a personal experience | 85 | |
| 7310114567 | "Raison d' être" | Reason for being, purpose in life | 86 | |
| 7726875913 | Philosophical Assumption | the author's claim about how/what people should think, believe, or behave | 87 | |
| 7726880820 | Invective Tone/Diction | Verbally abusive | 88 | |
| 7726881845 | Dogmatic tone/diction | focusing on a belief more than logic | 89 | |
| 7726884374 | Homily | a sermon | 90 | |
| 7726887731 | (not vocab) Homiletic tone/diction | biblical language | 91 | |
| 7726891773 | Polysyndeton/Polysyndetic structure | this and this and this (connect phrases w/ conjugations and no punctuation) | 92 | |
| 7726899200 | Asyndeton/Asyndetic structure | this, this, and this (connect phrases w/ punctuation and no conjugations) | 93 | |
| 7726904260 | Predestination | God determines your destiny before you are born | 94 | |
| 7726906995 | Existentialism | Man has FREE WILL to make choices that determine his destiny | 95 | |
| 7726909537 | Didactic tone/diction | morally instructive | 96 | |
| 7726912329 | Laconic tone/diction | straightforward and to the point | 97 | |
| 7726914244 | Verbose tone/diction | wordy/overly descriptive | 98 | |
| 7726917859 | Monosyllabic diction | word with one syllable | 99 | |
| 7726919490 | Polysyllabic diction | multiple syllables | 100 | |
| 7726921320 | Objective tone/diction | factual/non emotional | 101 | |
| 7726922934 | Subjective tone/diction | emotional or opinion based | 102 | |
| 7798430995 | Antithesis/antithetical diction | direct opposite/paradox ex. black and white, heaven and hell | 103 | |
| 7798437048 | Staccato/staccatic structure | short and choppy ex. Toby is a dog. He's great. He's awesome. | 104 | |
| 7798448511 | Concrete diction | things you can see and touch (opposite of abstract diction) ex. friends | 105 | |
| 7798456523 | Abstract diction | an idea (opposite of concrete diction) ex. friendship | 106 | |
| 7798464656 | Pedestrian diction | colloquial language (opposite of pedantic diction) | 107 | |
| 7798468666 | Pedantic diction | intentionally using academic or intellectual diction to make yourself sound smart to make others sound dumb - arrogant (opposite of pedestrian diction) | 108 | |
| 7798478575 | Chronological order | in sequence from first to last (opposite of cyclical structure) | 109 | |
| 7798485748 | Cyclical structure | when a sentence, paragraph, or whole text starts the way it ends (opposite of chronological order) | 110 | |
| 7798498921 | Situational irony | when the unexpected happens | 111 | |
| 7798501966 | Verbal irony | puns, sarcasm, when you say one thing but mean something else | 112 | |
| 7798506111 | Dramatic irony | when the audience knows something that the character doesn't | 113 | |
| 7798512085 | Cliché | overly used expression | 114 | |
| 7798525710 | A motif | a reoccurring symbol | 115 | |
| 7798527971 | Archetype/archetypical characters | cliché kinds of characters | 116 | |
| 7798541128 | Personal/narrative aside | when the author/character gives additional info or speaks directly to the reader (breaking the 4th wall) | 117 | |
| 7890428572 | Invocation/ to invoke | to summon, request, call upon | 118 | |
| 7890430516 | Monotheism | belief in one god | 119 | |
| 7890433208 | Polytheism | belief in multiple gods | 120 | |
| 7890436908 | Theology | study of religion | 121 | |
| 7890436910 | Rationalism | the belief in logic over faith | 122 | |
| 7890440193 | Pantheism | belief that god exists in all things, especially in nature | 123 | |
| 7890446089 | Transcendentalism | belief in individual thought + belief in what goes beyond reality (Emerson and Thoreau) | 124 | |
| 7890454635 | Romanticism | belief in positive thought, all will end well | 125 | |
| 7890456478 | Dark romanticism | belief in negative thought, all will end poorly | 126 | |
| 7890461745 | Gothic | dark romanticism | 127 | |
| 7890464527 | Realism | describing the world exactly as it is | 128 | |
| 7890466275 | Dirty realism | describing blue collar (working class) life exactly as it is | 129 | |
| 7890469672 | Materialism | philosophy that puts value in what you own over what you know | 130 | |
| 7890473987 | Altruism | philosophy that people should do things for others without expecting anything in return | 131 | |
| 7890480345 | Classicism | philosophy that values Greek & Roman thought | 132 | |
| 7913903111 | Naturalism | scientific observation of nature | 133 | |
| 7913910065 | Sophism | intentionally using logic to one's own advantage, usually to deceive | 134 | |
| 7913923523 | Humanism | study of what makes us human | 135 | |
| 7913926532 | Internalization | the idea that people believe what they believe based on how they were raised | 136 | |
| 7913931418 | Platonic theory | Plato's phil ass | 137 | |
| 7913933495 | Consensus | agreement | 138 | |
| 7913939501 | Belletrism/Belletristic language | euphonic/ pretty sounding language | 139 | |
| 7913946247 | Purple prose | text that use belletrism | 140 | |
| 7913948662 | Primer prose | text that is simple, laconic, basic | 141 | |
| 7913952584 | Emulation/to emulate | to mirror the style of something/someone | 142 | |
| 7913956301 | Verisimilitude | very similar to reality | 143 | |
| 7913958569 | Vraisemblance | French version of verisimilitude | 144 | |
| 7913966132 | Epitome/to epitomize | the perfect example of something (ex. Toby is the epitome of perfection.) | 145 | |
| 7913970380 | Allegory | story that represents something else | 146 | |
| 7913977564 | Interrupted sentence | sentence that is interrupted | 147 | |
| 8706968081 | Erudite tone/diction | intellectual | 148 | |
| 8706973104 | Wit or witty term/diction | intellectually funny, sarcastic, comebacks | 149 | |
| 8706976347 | Repartee | comeback | 150 | |
| 8706979465 | Rodomontade | genre of literature- arrogant speech | 151 | |
| 8706983095 | Bellicose tone/diction | argumentative | 152 | |
| 8706985927 | Laudatory tone/diction | praising/admiring someone else | 153 | |
| 8706994030 | Frivolous tone/diction | silly, humorous, trivial | 154 | |
| 8706999562 | Nonchalant tone/diction | uncaring, apathetic | 155 | |
| 8707002272 | Avarice | greed | 156 | |
| 8707006921 | Impudent tone/diction | arrogant, cocky, cheeky | 157 | |
| 8707009860 | Cognizant | Aware | 158 | |
| 8707009863 | Op ed | opinion editorial | 159 | |
| 8707013348 | Snide remark | mean/cruel comeback | 160 | |
| 8707019924 | Brazen tone/diction | (female) bold, empowering, unexpected | 161 | |
| 8707022971 | Audacious tone/diction | the nerve, being bold | 162 | |
| 9166976549 | Logical fallacy | an error in logic | 163 | |
| 9166979864 | Either or reasoning | when an author gives you 2 opposing options without considering circumstances ex. You're either with us or against us | 164 | |
| 9166996994 | Casual relationship | cause and effect | 165 | |
| 9166999211 | Faulty relationship | when the effect is not logical based on the cause ex.If we legalize weed, more people will smoke. | 166 | |
| 9167008699 | Equivocation | misleading use of a word (malapropism) ex. Should women fear man-eating sharks? | 167 | |
| 9167017932 | Negative positive statement | sentence that begins negatively, ends positively, but the contradiction makes the whole sentence untrue ex. Everyone will fail but he will pass. | 168 | |
| 9167024944 | Misnomer | malapropism/equivocation | 169 | |
| 9167027620 | Syllogism | if A=C & B=C, then A=B ex. If all dogs have 4 legs, and a shih tzu has 4 legs, then a shih tzu is a dog. | 170 | |
| 9167038137 | Faulty syllogism | syllogistic reasoning that doesn't make sense ex. If she weighs the same as a duck, then she's made of wood (bc she can float), therefore she's a witch. | 171 | |
| 9167051977 | Appeal to false authority | source is not credible ex. using a 7 year old kid as testimony | 172 | |
| 9167057760 | Begging the question | when you have info that "begs the question"/ makes you wonder/assume a consequence ex. SUHi has the most AP exams. That begs the question, do we have a higher pass rate? | 173 | |
| 9167067138 | Circular reasoning | circumlocution or periphrasis | 174 | |
| 9167070221 | Bandwagon effect | following the crowd | 175 | |
| 9167075570 | A bias/ biased perspective | one sided prejudice, not based on fact | 176 | |
| 9167077718 | Non-sequitur | "It does not follow" ex. I went to Disney. I love puppies. | 177 | |
| 9613981559 | Pun | play on words | 178 | |
| 9613981560 | Horatian satire | form of satire that mocks society (haha funny) | 179 | |
| 9613989635 | Juvenalian Satire | form of satire that attacks society | 180 | |
| 9613993446 | Burlesque | grotesque exaggeration that satirizes society | 181 | |
| 9614012419 | Travesty | makes fun of a serious subject with frivolous tone | 182 | |
| 9614015758 | Double entendre | something that has 2 meanings, 1 sexual | 183 | |
| 9614092101 | nonce word | coming up with a new word | 184 | |
| 9614093058 | invective diction | language that attacks people | 185 | |
| 9614093823 | malapropism | incorrect use of a word for comic purposes | 186 | |
| 9614095278 | mock epic | parody of an epic poem using a stupid subject | 187 | |
| 9614097106 | sarcasm | saying one thing but meaning another | 188 | |
| 9614097964 | parody | comic imitation of text | 189 | |
| 9614098940 | neologism | nonce word | 190 | |
| 9614098949 | bathos | makes fun of a trivial subject using elevated diction | 191 | |
| 9614100690 | sardonic diction | sarcasm with cruel intent | 192 | |
| 9614101855 | temporal shift | change in time | 193 | |
| 9614102908 | pastoral shift | dealing with nature and animals | 194 | |
| 9614103939 | demotic tone | conversational, colloquial, pedestrian | 195 | |
| 9614105050 | ambivalent tone | indecisive | 196 | |
| 9614105913 | content | happy, satisfied | 197 | |
| 9614106792 | contemptuous tone | hateful, despising | 198 | |
| 9614106793 | apathetic tone | without emotion | 199 | |
| 9614109400 | empathetic tone | shared feelings with someone because you've experienced this | 200 | |
| 9614110850 | sympathetic tone | to care, feel sorry for, emotion | 201 | |
| 9614112182 | indignant tone | hostile, upset, pissed off | 202 | |
| 9614113368 | exhorative tone | offering advice | 203 | |
| 9614114952 | reverential tone | with great respect and admiration | 204 | |
| 9614116626 | candid tone | honest, straight forward, truthful | 205 | |
| 9614118063 | monochromatic atmosphere | 1 color | 206 | |
| 9614118877 | synthesia | when the author blends 2 or more of the senses (ex. I feel blue) | 207 | |
| 9614161437 | hedonism/hedonistic atmosphere | doing things because they feel good | 208 | |
| 9614163772 | anadiplosis | God said "Let there be light." Light there shall be. | 209 | |
| 9614165855 | Periphrasis | circumlocution | 210 | |
| 9614167830 | ipso facto | it is fact that | 211 | |
| 9614168828 | apostrophe | directly speaking to an abstraction (ex. Oh Liberty, give me death.) | 212 | |
| 9614170701 | epigram | witty one liner (verbal irony) | 213 | |
| 9614171547 | epigraph | a sentence/quote that is separate & comes before a text to hint at the theme/topic | 214 | |
| 9614173546 | Epitaph | tombstone inscription | 215 | |
| 9614175304 | epistle | elevated, belletristic, high class letter | 216 | |
| 9614176818 | balanced sentence | parallel sentence | 217 | |
| 9614177445 | ethos | ethical appeal to morality | 218 | |
| 9614178467 | pathos | emotional appeal | 219 | |
| 9614179158 | logos | logical appeal | 220 | |
| 9614180067 | tricolon | 3 independent clauses connected by punctuation | 221 | |
| 9614180867 | freight train | 3 independent clauses connected by conjunctions | 222 | |
| 9614183150 | hasty generalization | jumping to conclusions | 223 | |
| 9614183867 | post hoc ergo propter hoc | assume that because something happened, it will cause something else to happen | 224 | |
| 9614190808 | slippery slope | when event x happens, you assume event y will happen | 225 | |
| 9614191437 | premise/supposition | a belief or something assumed or supposed | 226 | |
| 9614193182 | faulty premise | belief known to be false | 227 | |
| 9614194244 | ad hominem | attack the person, not his ideas | 228 | |
| 9614195508 | enthymeme | a syllogism missing one premise | 229 | |
| 9614196861 | deductive reasoning | general to specific | 230 | |
| 9614197591 | inductive reasoning | specific to general | 231 | |
| 9614198147 | birdwalking | digression | 232 | |
| 9614198976 | red herring | the distraction | 233 | |
| 9614198977 | strawman | when someone is arguing a point that their opponent never made | 234 | |
| 9614200452 | footnote | added info @ bottom of text | 235 | |
| 9614201725 | et al | and others | 236 | |
| 9614201726 | sic | when the author intentionally spells a word wrong and uses "sic" to tell the reader he knows he spelled it wrong | 237 |
