Unit 2 AP Language Vocabulary
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| 15595145336 | Archaic Diction | Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words ex. Thou shall not steal. | 0 | |
| 15595145337 | Hortative Sentence | Sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action ex. Join the millitary! Help Americans! | 1 | |
| 15595145338 | Periodic Sentence | The meaning and main clause is felt at the end of the sentence. | 2 | |
| 15595145339 | Syntax | How words are arranged into sentences ex. "And in this moment, I swear, we are infinite." | 3 | |
| 15595145340 | Close Reading | Putting a work in context, focusing your attention on themes and techniques, asking for a response. ex. Asking questions, Annotating | 4 | |
| 15595145341 | Style | The sentence structure, vocabulary, imagery, and figurative language, and feeling of a text. ex. "The studio was filled with the rich odor of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden... The sullen murmur of the bees shouldering their way through... or circling with monotonous insistence..." (imagery) | 5 | |
| 15595145342 | Diction | The speaker's choice of words. Can have denotative and connotative value. ex. "Busy old fool, unruly Sun," | 6 | |
| 15595145343 | Polysyndeton | Adds "and" between all items. ex. "We need eggs and cheese and bacon and water and apples." Slows down a sentence. Adds emphasis to list. | 7 | |
| 15595145344 | Allusion | Brief reference to a person, event, or place (real or fictitious) or to a work of a art. ex. "After she lost her job, she acted like Scrooge." | 8 | |
| 15595145345 | Asyndeton | Omission of conjunction between coordinate phrase, clauses, or words. ex. "We need eggs, bread, juice." Speeds up a sentence. Adds urgency. | 9 | |
| 15595145346 | Alliteration | Repetition of the same sound beginning several words or syllables in a sequence. ex. "She saw Samuel walking to school." | 10 | |
| 15595145347 | Tone | The authors attitude toward the subject of a work. | 11 | |
| 15595145348 | Mood | How the reader feels about the subject. (impacted by tone) ex. "The river, reflecting the clear blue of the sky, glistened and sparkled as it flowed noiselessly on." (mood is a calm and serene) | 12 | |
| 15595145349 | Inversion | Inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order) ex."Went skiing, he did." | 13 | |
| 15595145350 | Simple Sentence | One independent clause. "I went to the store." | 14 | |
| 15595145351 | Compound Sentence | Two independent clauses combined with a comma and conjunction, or a colon, or em dash. ex. "I went to the store, but I lost my wallet on the way." | 15 | |
| 15595145352 | Imperative Sentence | A sentence used to command. ex. "Pick up your clothes." | 16 | |
| 15595145353 | Complex Sentence | One independent clause combined with one dependent clause. ex."Although I'm a hard working student, I never want to do my homework." | 17 | |
| 15595145354 | Cumulative Sentence | Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds in successive clauses. | 18 | |
| 15595145355 | Personification | Figure of speech in which an inanimate object is given human characteristics. ex. "The wind whispered through dry grass." | 19 | |
| 15595145356 | Rhetorical Question | Figure of speech in the form of a question posed for the rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer. ex. "Are you serious?" | 20 | |
| 15595145357 | Hypophora | Figure of speech in which a writer raises a question and then immediately provides an answer to that question. ex."Thirty-one cakes, dampened with whiskey, bask on window sills and shelves. "Who are they for?" "Friends." | 21 | |
| 15595145358 | Antithesis | A rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect. ex. "You are easy on the eyes, but hard on the heart." | 22 | |
| 15595145359 | Synecdoche | A literary device in which a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part. ex. Calling all types of tissue Kleenex | 23 | |
| 15595145360 | Metaphor | Figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as. ex. "Shot me out of the sky You're my kryptonite" | 24 | |
| 15595145361 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech that involves an exaggeration of ideas. ex. "Your suitcase weighs a ton." | 25 | |
| 15595145362 | Simile | Figure of Speech that compares two things using like or as. ex. "The glow of the tube-light was as bright as sunshine." | 26 | |
| 15595145363 | Antimetabole | A literary term or device that involves repeating a phrase in reverse order. ex. "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail." | 27 | |
| 15595145364 | Parallelism | Is the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same. ex. "I knew, She knew, Everyone knew." | 28 | |
| 15595145365 | Juxaposition | Is a literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts. ex. "You will soon be asked to do great violence in the cause of good." - The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers | 29 |
