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| 4170370743 | ambiguity | a statement with two or more meanings that may seem to exclude another in the context (lexical and structural) | 0 | |
| 4170375448 | anecdote | a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident | 1 | |
| 4170383286 | appeals | ethos, logos, pathos | 2 | |
| 4170384202 | concession | when you show an audience that you have anticipated potential opposition and objections, and have an answer for them, you defuse the audience's ability to oppose you and persuade them to accept your point of view. If there are places where you agree with your opposition, conceding their points creates goodwill and respect without weakening your thesis | 3 | |
| 4170393634 | deductive | works from the more general to the more specific. Sometimes this is informally called a "top-down" approach. We might begin with thinking up a theory about our topic of interest, then narrow that down into more specific hypotheses that we can test | 4 | |
| 4170405213 | inductive | works from more specific observations to broader generalizations and theories. "bottom up" | 5 | |
| 4170447242 | syllogism | the primary premise is a general statement (always universal, may be pos or neg) eg. everything that live, moves no mountain moves no mountain lives | 6 | |
| 4170457040 | enthymeme | partial syllogism based on the probable rather that positive premises and is based on implicit conjectures that are shared by the speaker and audience eg. everything that lives, moves no mountain lives | 7 | |
| 4170463319 | abstraction | an idea disassociated from any specific instance; expresses a quality apart from an object | 8 | |
| 4170466273 | aesthetic | a guiding principle in matters of artistic beauty and taste; artistic sensibility | 9 | |
| 4170469052 | allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence | 10 | |
| 4170472465 | alliteration | the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of successive words | 11 | |
| 4170476519 | allusion | a reference, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature or history | 12 | |
| 4170478489 | ambiguous | a word, phrase, or sentence whose meaning can be interpreted in more than one way | 13 | |
| 4170480797 | analogy | an extended comparison between two things/instances/people etc that share some similarity to make a point | 14 | |
| 4170483609 | anaphora | repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses, sentences, or lines | 15 | |
| 4170492781 | anastrophe | normal word order is reversed or rearranged | 16 | |
| 4170493952 | antithesis | the rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words, clauses, or sentences | 17 | |
| 4170496469 | aphorism | a brief saying embodying a moral, a concise statement of a principle or precept given in pointed words | 18 | |
| 4170502352 | apostrophe | when an absent person, concept, or object is directly addressed | 19 | |
| 4170503673 | appositive | a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun beside it | 20 | |
| 4170505120 | assonance | the repetition of vowel sounds but not consonant sounds | 21 | |
| 4170506792 | asyndeton | conjunctions are omitted, producing a fast-paced and rapid prose | 22 | |
| 4170514484 | atmosphere | the mood or pervasive feeling insinuated by a literary work | 23 | |
| 4170517417 | audience | part of your rhetorical situation (speaker, subject, audience) the persons to whom comments are directed (affects tone, meaning) | 24 | |
| 4170526652 | bildungsroman | this genre of literature denotes the story of a single individual's growth and development within the context of a defined social order. the growth process, at its roots a quest story, has been scribed as both "an apprentice to life" and a search for meaningful existence within society" | 25 | |
| 4170536362 | cacophony | harsh, discordant sounds | 26 | |
| 4170537446 | chiasmus | repetition of ideas in inverted order | 27 | |
| 4170538546 | climax | writer arranges ideas in the order of importance | 28 | |
| 4170540555 | colloquialism | characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech | 29 | |
| 4170543118 | concrete | opposite of abstract; identifies things perceived through the senses (touch, smell, sight, hearing, and taste) | 30 | |
| 4170546617 | connotation | set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning | 31 | |
| 4170555305 | consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels, as in assonance | 32 | |
| 4170557386 | denotation | the literal meaning of a word, the dictionary meaning | 33 | |
| 4170559162 | detail | eg. "The snake turned a little to watch what I would do" ie. strictly detail/ creates simple image with no connotation | 34 | |
| 4170570682 | dialect | a regional variety of a language distinguished by feature of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation from other regional varieties and constituting together with them a single language | 35 | |
| 4170593998 | diction | a writers choice of words, phrases, sentence structures, and figurative language | 36 | |
| 4170598647 | didactic | tone; instructional, designed to teach ethical, moral, or religious lesson | 37 | |
| 4170633381 | elegiac | tone; of, relating to, or expressing sorrow for that which is irrecoverably past | 38 | |
| 4170638184 | epigraph | a quotation set at the beginning of a literary work or one of its divisions to suggest its theme | 39 | |
| 4170654702 | epistrophe | ending a series of lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences with the same word or words | 40 | |
| 4170657863 | euphemism | the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant | 41 | |
| 4170663118 | euphony | soothing pleasant sounds, opposite of cacophony | 42 | |
| 4170667927 | extended metaphor | differs from a regular metaphor in that several comparisons similar in theme are being made | 43 | |
| 4170672723 | figurative language/figures of speech | language used to create a special effect or feeling; most commonly alliteration, hyperbole, metaphor | 44 | |
| 4170701071 | generalization | an idea or statement that emphasizes the general characteristic rather than the details of a subject | 45 | |
| 4170704633 | genre | a category or type of literature based on its style, form, and content | 46 | |
| 4170706588 | hyperbole | exaggeration done deliberately for emphasis | 47 | |
| 4170708580 | idiolect | one's own personal language, the words they choose and any other features that characterize their speech and writing | 48 | |
| 4170716285 | idiomatic | of or pertaining to, or conforming to, the mode of expression peculiar to a language; use of figures of speech | 49 | |
| 4170719938 | imagery | the words or phrases a writer uses to represent objects, feelings, actions; appeals to one or more five senses | 50 | |
| 4170725998 | inflection | the change of form that words undergo to mark such distinctions as those of case, gender, number, tense, person, mood, or voice | 51 | |
| 4170730250 | invective | of, relating to, or characterized by insult or abuse | 52 | |
| 4170732323 | irony | verbal situational dramatic | 53 | |
| 4170733802 | juxtaposition | placing two or more things side by side for comparison or contrast | 54 | |
| 4170744447 | metaphor | an implied comparison between two unlike things | 55 | |
| 4170745787 | metonymy | a figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated | 56 | |
| 4170750699 | mood | the feeling a piece of literature arouses in the reader | 57 | |
| 4170752308 | motif | a usually recurring salient thematic element especially a dominant idea or central them | 58 | |
| 4170755114 | onomatopoeia | the use of words whose sound reinforces their meaning | 59 | |
| 4170758073 | oxymoron | a combination of contradictory or incongruous words eg cruel to be kind | 60 | |
| 4170763132 | pacing | use when discussing organization, point out where action/ syntax begins to speed up, slow down, is interrupted | 61 | |
| 4170782209 | paradox | apparently self contradictory statement, the underlying meaning of which is revealed only by careful scrutiny | 62 | |
| 4170801275 | paralepsis | device of giving emphasis by professing to say little or nothing about a subject eg. "not to mention" | 63 | |
| 4170809599 | parallelism | a repetition of sentence using the same grammatical structure emphasizing all aspect of the sentence equally | 64 | |
| 4170812448 | parenthetical expression | an expression that is inserted into the flow of thought (dashes or parentheses) | 65 | |
| 4170846497 | parody | mimicking someone else's work or style in a humorous or satirical way | 66 | |
| 4170849043 | pastoral | the poetry or songs of the shepherds otium- leisure- of or relating to the countryside | 67 | |
| 4170854938 | persona | when the narrator takes on a ______ of his own rather than remaining objective (reader must consider bias and intents) | 68 | |
| 4170861106 | personification | attributing human qualities to an inanimate object | 69 | |
| 4170862973 | picaresque novel | an episodic, often autobiographical novel about a rogue or picaro (a person of low social status) wandering and living off his wits | 70 | |
| 4170867929 | point of view | literary term for the perspective from which a story is told (first, third) | 71 | |
| 4170987448 | portmanteau | the combination of two or more words to make a new word | 72 | |
| 4170989563 | polysyndeton | the use of many conjunctions has the effect of slowing the pace or emphasizing the numerous words or clauses | 73 | |
| 4170993398 | pun | a humorous play on words | 74 | |
| 4170994973 | repetition | using the same word or phrase over and over (anaphora epanalepsis, epistrophe) | 75 | |
| 4171000058 | rhetoric | the art of study of speaking and writing effectively | 76 | |
| 4171002593 | rhetorical situation | the triangle created by the speaker/writer, audience, and the occasion | 77 | |
| 4171030584 | rhetorical question | question that do not require an answer ( directed to reader, writer, dev of ideas) | 78 | |
| 4171033899 | sarcasm | a type of irony in which a person appears to praise something but actually insults it; purpose to injure or hurt | 79 | |
| 4171054404 | satire | a composition ridiculing human vice or folly; a keen or severe exposure of what in public or private morals deserves rebuke | 80 | |
| 4171059192 | schemes | figures of speech in which word order is altered from the usual or expected | 81 | |
| 4171064060 | semantics | the study of the larger system of meaning created by words | 82 | |
| 4171067974 | shift | when a section of the text undergoes a noticeable or subtle change in person syntax tone etc | 83 | |
| 4171071907 | simile | an explicit comparison between two unlike things signified by the use of like or as | 84 | |
| 4171074522 | stream of consciousness | technique that records the thought and feelings of a character without regard to logical argument or narrative sequence; reflects all the forces, internal and external, affecting the characters psyche at the moment | 85 | |
| 4171081605 | style | the phrase "the author's ______" is often seen in AP prompts and is asking the student to discuss how the author uses words, phrases, and sentences to form ideas | 86 | |
| 4171087591 | symbol | a person, place, thing, or event used to represent something else | 87 | |
| 4171089387 | synecdoche | the rhetorical situation of a part for the whole | 88 | |
| 4171092564 | synesthesia | a rhetorical device that mixes elements of the senses | 89 | |
| 4171094881 | thesis | a statement of purpose, intent, or main idea in a literary work | 90 | |
| 4171096543 | tropes | figures of speech in which meaning is altered from the usual or expected | 91 | |
| 4171099379 | understatement or litotes | deliberate understatement, especially when expressing a thought by denying its opposite | 92 | |
| 4171101776 | vernacular | the characteristic language of a particular group (colloquialism) often slang or informal | 93 | |
| 4171168917 | voice | means in which the author comes through through the words, the sense that a real person is speaking to us and cares about the message | 94 | |
| 4171168918 | wit | a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter | 95 | |
| 4171172777 | zeugma | when two different words that sound exactly alike are yoked together; when a preposition or verb has two or more objects on different levels | 96 |
