5344593101 | subjective description | A description in which the author's thoughts and feelings are presented along with the physical details of a scene | 0 | |
5344594953 | objective description | A description that shows what a detached observer would would see and hear in a scene | 1 | |
5374210037 | descriptive mode | A rhetorical mode in which the writer appeals to the senses: it tells how something looks, feels, sounds, smells, or tastes | 2 | |
5374212640 | narrative mode | A rhetorical mode in which the writer tells an account of actions and events that happen to someone or something in a particular place and time. Narration is essentially storytelling. | 3 | |
5374215790 | dominant impression | In descriptive writing, the main impression of a subject that a writer creates through the use of carefully selected details | 4 | |
5393806491 | paradox | a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true. "in a paradox, he has discovered that stepping back from his job has increased the rewards he gleans from it" | 5 | |
5393808365 | irony | when a REVERSAL of expectations occurs incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result; an event or result marked by such incongruity | ![]() | 6 |
Term 2 AP Language 2016-2017 Flashcards
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