for the 1st semester final of Mrs. Nelson's AP English Language class
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| 121362829 | allusion | a reference to another work assuming the audience can relate; a common example is the Bible | 0 | |
| 121362830 | anaphora | repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences | 1 | |
| 121362831 | anecdote | a short account of a particular incident or event of an interesting or amusing nature, often biographical | 2 | |
| 121362832 | aphorism | a rather laconic statement containing subjective truth in it; a cute little saying that you see on calendars | 3 | |
| 121362833 | maxim | an expression of a general truth or principle, esp. an aphoristic or sententious one | 4 | |
| 121362834 | ethos | appeal to the author's credibility or persona | 5 | |
| 121362835 | pathos | appeal that uses an audience's emotions | 6 | |
| 121362836 | logos | appeal through logical argument | 7 | |
| 121362837 | colloquialism | common language/vernacular | 8 | |
| 121362838 | connotation | the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning | 9 | |
| 121362839 | denotation | the literal image or idea of a word | 10 | |
| 121362840 | context | the set of circumstances or facts that surround a particular event, situation, etc.; occasion | 11 | |
| 121362841 | controlling image | a literary device employing repetition so as to stress the theme of a work or a particular symbol; motif | 12 | |
| 121362842 | controlling metaphor | a symbolic story, where the whole poem may be a metaphor for something else; motif | 13 | |
| 121362843 | epigraph | a quotation at the beginning of a poem, short story, book chapter, or other piece of literature; introduces or refers to the larger themes of the piece; in a way, it may help to draw the reader's attention to these ideas, setting the stage. | 14 | |
| 121362844 | figurative language | speech or writing that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect or meaning, speech or writing employing figures of speech | 15 | |
| 121362845 | hyperbole | an overstatement | 16 | |
| 121362846 | inductive reasoning | reasoning from detailed facts to general principles | 17 | |
| 121362847 | verbal irony | when an author says one thing and means something else; sarcasm | 18 | |
| 121362848 | dramatic irony | when an audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know | 19 | |
| 121362849 | situational irony | a discrepancy between the expected result and actual results | 20 | |
| 121362850 | litote | an understatement | 21 | |
| 121362851 | metaphor | direct comparison of two different things without like or as | 22 | |
| 121362852 | metonymy | a type of metaphorical language or metaphor; refers to something by referring to something related to it. Ex. police and badge | 23 | |
| 121362853 | oxymoron | a word or word phrase that seems to contradict itself; ex. jumbo shrimp | 24 | |
| 121362854 | parallelism | repeated grammatical structures within a passage | 25 | |
| 121362855 | paraphrase | to summarize or shorten a passage in your own words | 26 | |
| 121362856 | peroration | conclusion of a speech where the argument is summed up in a forceful way | 27 | |
| 121362857 | persona | the image that the rhetor makes. ex: Mark Twain | 28 | |
| 121362858 | personification | giving human qualities to objects | 29 | |
| 121362859 | rhetoric | the deliberate manipulation of eloquence for the most persuasive effect in public speaking or in writing | 30 | |
| 121362860 | rhetorical question | question asked without expecting an answer and solely to produce an effect | 31 | |
| 121362861 | rhetorical triangle | a device used to analyze the audience, subject, and persona of a passage | 32 | |
| 121362862 | Horatian satire | a mode of writing that exposes the failings of individuals, institutions, or societies to ridicule them; humorous | 33 | |
| 121362863 | Juvenalian satire | a mode of writing that exposes the failings of individuals, institutions, or societies to ridicule them; serious | 34 | |
| 121362864 | simile | direct comparison using like or as | 35 | |
| 121362865 | SOAPS (rhetorical situation) | Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Speaker | 36 | |
| 121362866 | support/evidence/data | what a rhetor uses to make his or her argument more solid or credible. ex: quotes, statistics | 37 | |
| 121362867 | syllogism | deductive reasoning | 38 | |
| 121362868 | deductive reasoning | reasoning from general to specific or from cause to effect | 39 | |
| 121362869 | synecdoche | a metaphor that uses a part of an object to represent the whole thing | 40 | |
| 121362870 | tone | the emotion conveyed through language; attitude | 41 | |
| 121362871 | unreliable narrator | narrator who is naïve, misleading, biased, inaccurate | 42 |
