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AP Language - Tone Flashcards

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14694712179ToneAttitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character0
14712115799DictionA writer's or speaker's choice of words1
14712181404Point of ViewA particular attitude or way of considering a matter2
14712261464MoodHow the reader feels about the text while reading3
14712269164VoiceThe personality used by a writer or speaker4
14712285129SettingThe context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs5
14712287874CharactersThe people or animals in a story6
14712303228DetailsPieces of information that support or tell more about the main idea7

AP Language Vocabulary Quiz 1 Flashcards

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14663370598Allusiona short, informal reference to a famous person or event0
14663370599Dysphemisma negative expression is used to make a more positive expression sound worse1
14663370600Epithetdescribes a place, a thing or a person in such a way that it helps in making the characteristics of a person, thing or place more prominent than they actually are2
14663370601Parentheticalsaid or written while you are talking or writing about something else in order to explain something or add information often in parentheses.3
14663370602Fallacy of divisioninferring that something is true of one or more of the parts from the fact that it is true of the whole.4
14663370603Metonymya figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated5
14663370604Litotea figure of speech which employs an understatement by using double negatives or, in other words, positive statement is expressed by negating its opposite expressions.6
14663370605Root word "apo"- away and from 1. apocryphal - a story or statement of doubtful authenticity, although widely circulated as being true. 2. apogee - the point in the orbit of the moon or a satellite at which it is furthest from the earth. 3. apologist -a person who offers an argument in defense of something controversial. 4. apostasy -the abandonment or renunciation of a religious or political belief. 5. apoplexy - sudden loss of consciousness; a stroke 6.7
14663370606License1. a formal permission to do something; esp. authorization by law to do some specified thing: license to marry, practice medicine, hunt, etc. 2. a document, printed tag, permit, etc. indicating that such permission has been granted 3. freedom to deviate from strict conduct, rule, or practice, generally permitted by common consent: poetic license an instance of such deviation 4. excessive, undisciplined freedom, constituting an abuse of liberty8
14663370607Gravity1. the state or condition of being grave; esp., a. solemnity or sedateness of manner or character; earnestness b. danger or threat; ominous quality: the gravity of his illness c. seriousness, as of a situation 2. weight; heaviness 3. lowness of musical pitch 4. gravitation, esp. terrestrial gravitation; force that tends to draw all bodies in the earth's sphere toward the center of the earth9
14663370608Temper1. To modify by the addition of a moderating element; moderate 2. To bring to a desired consistency, texture, hardness, or other physical condition by blending, admixing, or kneading: temper clay; paints that had been tempered with oil. 3. To harden or strengthen (metal or glass) by application of heat or by heating and cooling. 4. To strengthen through experience or hardship; toughen: 5.To adjust (the pitch of an instrument) to a temperament. 6. A state of mind or emotion; disposition: an even temper. 7. Calmness of mind or emotions; composure: lose one's temper. 8. A tendency to become easily angry or irritable: a quick temper. 9. Anger; rage: a fit of temper. 10. A characteristic general quality; tone 11. The condition of being tempered. 12. The degree of hardness and elasticity of a metal, chiefly steel, achieved by tempering. 13. A modifying substance or agent added to something else. 14. A middle course between extremes; a mean.10

AP Psychology - THINKING & LANGUAGE Flashcards

Thinking Problem Solving Creativity and Language

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13545412573cognitionall the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating.0
13545412574Concepta mental grouping of similar objects, events, ideas, or people1
13545412575Prototypea standard or typical example (Is that a computer screen that BENDS?!)2
13545412576algorithma precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem3
13545412577Heuristica commonsense rule (or set of rules) intended to increase the probability of solving some problem4
13545412578InsightA cognitive form of learning involving the mental rearragnment or restructuring of the elements in a problem to achieve an understanding or the problem and arrive at a solution5
13545412579Creativitythe ability to produce novel and valuable ideas6
13545412580Confirmation biasa tendency to search for information that confirms one's preconceptions7
13545412581fixationthe inability to see a problem from a new perspective, by employing a different mental set8
13545412582Mental Seta tendency to approach a problem in a particular way, often a way that has been successful in the past9
13545412583Functional fixednessthe tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions; an impediment to problem solving (Is a shoe just a shoe?)10
13545412584Representative heuristicjudging the likelihood of things in terms of how well they seem to represent, or match, particular prototypes; may lead one to ignore other relevent information11
13545412585Availability heuristicestimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind, we presume such events are common12
13545412586Overconfidencetotal certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant13
13545412587Belief Perseveranceclinging to one's initial conceptions after the basis on which they were formed has been discredited14
13545412588Intuitioninstinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes)15
13545412589Framingthe way an issue is posed16
13545412590Languagespoken, written or signed words, and the ways we use them to communicate.17
13545412591Phoneme(linguistics) the smallest distinctive unit of sound18
13545412592Morphemesmallest meaningful language unit19
13545412593Grammara system of linguistic rules that enables communication20
13545412594Semanticsthe study of language meaning21
13545412595Syntaxthe rules for grammatical arrangement of words in sentences22
13545412596Babbling Stagebeginning at about 4 months, the stage of speech development in which the infant spontaneously utters various sounds at first unrelated to the household lanuage.23
13545412597One-word Stagethe stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words24
13545412598Two-word stagebeginning about age 2, the stage in speech development during which a child speaks mostly two-word statements25
13545412599Telegraphic speechearly speech stage in which a child speaks like a telegram--'go car'--using mostly nouns and verbs and omitting 'auxiliary' words26
13545412600Linguistic determinismWhorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think27
13545412601Noam ChomskyAmerican linguist whose theory of generative grammar argued that language and grammar are innate, that we have a language acquisition device built in.28
13545412602B.F Skinnerpioneer of operant conditioning who believed that language development is determined by our past history of rewards and punishments29
13545412603Benjamin WhorfLinguist who theorized the concept of "liguistic determinism" or how language impacts thought30

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