AP terms for exams
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| 15124341836 | ad-hominem | an argument which appeals to emotion over reason | 0 | |
| 15124341837 | allegory | story where everything is symbolic | 1 | |
| 15124341838 | alliteration | first consonant repeats itself in multiple words (we went walking with walter to walmart) | 2 | |
| 15124341839 | allusion | reference to something commonly known -historical -mythological -literary -biblical (trump is a modern day hitler) | 3 | |
| 15124341840 | ambiguity | multiple meaning or unclear (walter whites moral ambiguity is interesting to see in breaking bad) | 4 | |
| 15124341841 | analogy | comparison between two things and the relationship between them (my dog is as light as a feather) | 5 | |
| 15124341842 | antecedent | the word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun (my sister is 19 years old, and she acts like shes 6)(the antecent is my sister and the pronoun is she) | 6 | |
| 15124341843 | antithesis | statement that is a contradiction in parallel structure. (it was the best of times, it was the worst of times) | 7 | |
| 15124341844 | aphorism | short statement expressing a general truth (if it aint broke, dont fix it) | 8 | |
| 15124341845 | apostrophe | directly addressing an imaginery person or inanimate object. (why god why) | 9 | |
| 15124341846 | atmosphere | how a reader feels reading a text (the mood) | 10 | |
| 15124341847 | caricature | literary exaggeration of features | 11 | |
| 15124341848 | chiasmus | inverted parallelism (all for one. one for all) | 12 | |
| 15124341849 | clause | grammatical unit with a subject and a verb | 13 | |
| 15124341850 | dependent clause | subject and a verb that cant stand alone (after i ate) | 14 | |
| 15124341851 | independent clause | subject and verb that can stand alone (i ate) | 15 | |
| 15124341852 | colloquialism | slang or informal language (ex. frick) | 16 | |
| 15124341853 | conceit | surprisingly intellectual analogy (love is a robot.) | 17 | |
| 15124341854 | connotation | implied meaning of a word (sexy can be a + or - connotation, given context). | 18 | |
| 15124341855 | denotation | dictionary definition or a word | 19 | |
| 15124341856 | diction | authors word choice (he used negative diction throughout the article of the holocaust) | 20 | |
| 15124341857 | didactic | tone word that means instructive (the article was very didactic in tone, telling people how to dumpster dive) | 21 | |
| 15124341858 | euphemism | nicer way to say something that could be offensive (he got canned) | 22 | |
| 15124341859 | extended metaphor | metaphor thay occurs throughout a passage | 23 | |
| 15124341860 | figurative language | anything not taken literary(metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole)6 | 24 | |
| 15124341861 | figure of speech | devices that create figurative language (he used a metaphor to make a connection) | 25 | |
| 15124341862 | generic conventions | roles of a genre (how a poem, fictional piece, screenplay are written) | 26 | |
| 15124341863 | genre | the category a work of literature fits into (non-fiction, fiction) | 27 | |
| 15124341864 | homily | serious talk about morals (one sundays the cohen gave a homily on shabbat) | 28 | |
| 15124341865 | hyperbole | extreme exaggeration | 29 | |
| 15124341866 | imagery | sensory details that activate the five senses | 30 | |
| 15124341867 | inference | draw a reasonable conclusion | 31 | |
| 15124341868 | invective | verbal denunciation | 32 |
