Tools of the Trade vocabulary terms for Mrs. Hebert's AP Language and Composition classes.
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| 8427746150 | Allegory | A fictional work in which the characters represent ideas or concepts. | 0 | |
| 8427746151 | Alliteration | The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables. | 1 | |
| 8427746152 | Allusion | A passing reference to a familiar person, place, or thing drawn from history, the Bible, mythology, or literature. | 2 | |
| 8427746153 | Anaphora | Repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences. | 3 | |
| 8427746154 | Anecdote | A brief narrative of an entertaining and presumably true incident. | 4 | |
| 8427746155 | Aphorism | A concise statement of a principle; a terse formulation of truth or sentiment. | 5 | |
| 8427746156 | Bombast | Language that is overly rhetorical (pompous); especially when considered in context. | 6 | |
| 8427746157 | Chiasmus | A form of antithesis in which the second half of the statement inverts the word order of the first half. | 7 | |
| 8427746158 | Circumlocution | A roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea. | 8 | |
| 8427746159 | Concrete Language | Language that describes specific, observable things, people, or places, rather than ideas or qualities. | 9 | |
| 8427746160 | Connotation | The associations, images, or impressions carried by a word, as opposed to the word's literal meaning. | 10 | |
| 8427746161 | Denotation | The dictionary meaning of a word, the literal meaning. | 11 | |
| 8427746162 | Diction | Choice of words especially with regard to correctness, clearness, or effectiveness. | 12 | |
| 8427746163 | Ellipsis | A rhetorical device in which words are consciously omitted, perhaps because their meaning can be inferred. | 13 | |
| 8427746164 | Epigraph | A quotation or motto at the beginning of a book or chapter. | 14 | |
| 8427746165 | Euphemism | The substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt. | 15 | |
| 8427746166 | Extended Metaphor | A metaphor, or implied comparison, that is sustained for several lines or that becomes the controlling image of an entire poem. | 16 | |
| 8427746167 | Figurative Language | A term for all uses of language that imply imaginative comparison. | 17 | |
| 8427746168 | Hyperbole | Obvious, extravagant exaggeration or overstatement, not intended to be taken literally, but used figuratively to create humor or emphasis. | 18 | |
| 8427746169 | Imagery | The making of "pictures in words"; appeals to the senses of taste, smell, hearing, and touch, and to internal feelings, as well as to the sense of sight. | 19 | |
| 8427746170 | Inverted Sentence | A sentence in which the subject follows the verb. | 20 | |
| 8427746171 | Malapropism | The comic substitution of one word for another similar in sound but quite different in meaning. | 21 | |
| 8427746172 | Metaphor | A figure of speech; an implied analogy in which one thing is imaginatively compared to or identified with another, dissimilar thing. | 22 | |
| 8427746173 | Metonymy | A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it. | 23 | |
| 8427746174 | Mood | The climate of feeling in a literary work. | 24 | |
| 8427746175 | Onomatopoeia | The use of words whose sound imitates the sound of the thing being named. | 25 | |
| 8427746176 | Oxymoron | A figure of speech in which two contradictory words or phrases are combined in a single expression, giving the effect of a condensed paradox. | 26 | |
| 8427746177 | Paradox | A statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true. | 27 | |
| 8427746178 | Parallelism | The technique of showing that words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures are comparable in content and importance by placing them side by side and making them similar in form. | 28 | |
| 8427746179 | Personification | A figure of speech in which human characteristics and sensibilities are attributed to animals, plants, inanimate objects, natural forces or abstract ideas. | 29 | |
| 8427746180 | Point of View | The particular perspective from which a story is told. | 30 | |
| 8427746181 | Pun | A form of wit, not necessarily funny, involving a play on a word with two or more meanings. | 31 | |
| 8427746182 | Rhetoric | The art of speaking or writing effectively; the study of writing or speaking as a means of communication or persuasion. | 32 | |
| 8427746183 | Rhetorical Question | A question whose answer is obvious. | 33 | |
| 8427746184 | Satire | A term used to describe any form of literature that blends ironic humor and wit with criticism for the purpose of ridiculing folly, vice, stupidity - the whole range of human foibles and frailties - in individuals and institutions. | 34 | |
| 8427746185 | Simile | A figure of speech that uses like, as, or as if to compare two essentially different objects, actions, or attributes that share some aspect of similarity. | 35 | |
| 8427746186 | Situational Irony | Refers to the contrast between what is intended or expected and what actually occurs. | 36 | |
| 8427746187 | Style | A writer's characteristic way of saying things. | 37 | |
| 8427746188 | Syllogism | An argument that utilizes deductive reasoning and consists of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion. | 38 | |
| 8427746189 | Symbol | Anything that signifies, or stands for, something else. | 39 | |
| 8427746190 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part of something stands for the whole thing. | 40 | |
| 8427746191 | Syntax | The way words are arranged in a sentence. | 41 | |
| 8427746192 | Theme | The central idea of a piece of work. | 42 | |
| 8427746193 | Tone | The reflection in a work of the author's attitude toward his or her subject, characters, and readers. | 43 | |
| 8427746194 | Understatement | A type of verbal irony in which something is purposely represented as being far less important than it actually is. | 44 | |
| 8427746195 | Verbal Irony | A figure of speech in which there is contrast between what is said ans what is actually meant. | 45 |
