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| 6803715180 | Allegory | The device of using a character/story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. The author may personify hope or freedom. The allegorical meaning usually deals with moral truth or a generalization about human existence. | 0 | |
| 6803715181 | Ambiguity | The multiple meanings (intentional or unintentional) of a passage, phrase, sentence... | 1 | |
| 6803715182 | Antecedent | The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. | 2 | |
| 6803715183 | Antithesis | Direct opposition of ideas in writing | 3 | |
| 6803715184 | Aphorism | A tense statement of known authorship which expresses a moral truth or a moral principle. Can be a memorable summation of the author's point. | 4 | |
| 6803715185 | Apostrophe | A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, like liberty or love. Directly addressing something that isn't usually addressed like a vase. They usually imply a personification of the object and add a feeling of familiarity and emotional intensity. | 5 | |
| 6803715186 | Atmosphere | The emotional mod created by the entirety of a literary work, partly by the introduction and objects described-even the weather can change the atmosphere. | 6 | |
| 6803715187 | Caricature | A verbal description of a person's definitive physical features or other characteristics to exaggerate or distort for a comic effect. | 7 | |
| 6803715188 | Conceit | A fanciful expression, usually an extended metaphor or a surprising analogy between vastly different things, displays intelligence by the unusual comparison being made. | 8 | |
| 6803715189 | Connotation | The non-literal, associated meaning of a word (Knife-fear, violence) | 9 | |
| 6803715190 | Denotation | The strict meaning of a word without emotion (Knife-utensil used to cut) | 10 | |
| 6803844313 | Didactic | "Teaching" Primary purpose is teaching or instructing, especially the teaching of moral or ethical principles. | 11 | |
| 6803844314 | Euphemism | Less offensive/unpleasant substitutes for unpleasant words/concepts (Corpse-earthly remains) | 12 | |
| 6803844315 | Figurative language | Writing not meant to be taken literally, imaginative and vivid | 13 | |
| 6803844316 | Generic conventions | Traditions for each genre of writing. Used to differentiate between modes of writing. | 14 | |
| 6803844317 | Genre | The broad category which literary works fit in. Prose, poetry, and Drama. On the AP Exam genres include autobiography, biography, diaries, criticism, essays, AND journalistic, political, scientific, and nature writing | 15 | |
| 6803844318 | Homily | Literally means sermon, but can be used to describe any serious talk, lecture, or speech involving moral or spiritual advice. | 16 | |
| 6803844319 | Inference | To draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented. | 17 | |
| 6815058488 | Invective | An emotionally violent verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language. | 18 | |
| 6815058489 | Litotes | Understatement where the point is made by denying its opposite. "Not a bad idea" | 19 | |
| 6815058490 | Loose sentence/ non perioidic | A sentence where the main idea (independent clause) comes first followed by other clauses | 20 | |
| 6815058491 | Metonymy | A figure of speech where the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it. "The president declared...The White House declared" | 21 | |
| 6815058492 | Oxymoron | Contradictory terms used to suggest paradox, not the effect of the authors oxymoron in an essay. | 22 | |
| 6815216856 | Anaphora | Exact repetition of words/phrases. | 23 | |
| 6815216857 | Parody | Work that closely imitates the style/content of another with the aim of comic effect or ridicule | 24 | |
| 6815216858 | Pedantci | Words/phrases/general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, bookish | 25 | |
| 6815216859 | Prose | Fiction and nonfiction | 26 | |
| 6815216860 | Rhetoric | The principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively | 27 | |
| 6815216861 | Rhetorical Modes | Expository/exposition- explain and analyze information by presenting an idea, relevant evidence, and appropriate discussion. Argumentation- Description- recreate?Invent, or visually present a person, place, event or action so that the reader can picture that being described. Narration- story | 28 | |
| 6815216862 | Satire | A work that targets human vices and follows or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule. | 29 | |
| 6815216863 | Semantics | The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words, their historical and psychological development, connotation, and their relation to one another. | 30 | |
| 6815216864 | Subject compliment | The word or phrase that follows a linking verb and either renames the subject or describes it | 31 | |
| 6815216865 | Subordinate clause | Dependent clause | 32 | |
| 6815216866 | Syllogism | A deductive system of formal logic that present two premises that lead to a sound conclusion. Major and minor premises. "All men are mortal" "Socrates is a man" | 33 | |
| 6815216867 | Synecdoche | A part of something is used to represent the whole or occasionally the whole is used to represent the part. "Boat-sail car-wheels" | 34 | |
| 6815216868 | Shmesthesia | When one kind of sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another. The sight of red ants make you itchy | 35 | |
| 6815216869 | Syntax | The way the author joins words, phrases, clauses, and sentences. Similar to diction but you can differentiate by thinking of syntax as groups of words, while fiction refers to individual words. | 36 | |
| 6815216870 | Wut | Intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights. | 37 |
