67 AP Vocab Terms Flashcards

118088304	ambiguity	the multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage	0
118088305	clause	a grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb	1
118088306	oxymoron	from the Greek for "pointedly foolish", a figure of speech wherein the author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox	2
118088307	litotes	a form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite	3
118088308	syllogism	from the Greek for "reckoning together", a deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion	4
118088309	repetition	the duplication, either exact or approximate, of any element of language, such as a sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence, or grammatical pattern	5
118088310	personification	a figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions	6
118088311	homily	this term literally means "sermon" but more informally, it can include any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice	7
118088312	diction	refers to the writer's word choices, especially with regard to their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness	8
118088313	genre	the major category into which a literary work fits	9
118088314	transition	a word or phrase that links different ideas	10
118088315	synesthesia	when one kind of sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another	11
118088316	style	an evaluation of the sum of the choices an author makes in blending diction, syntax, figurative language, and other literary devices; classification of authors to a group and comparison of an author to similar authors	12
118088317	prose	one of the major divisions of genre; refers to fiction and nonfiction, including all its forms	13
118088318	pedantic	an adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish	14
118088319	metaphor	a figure of speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things or the substitution of one for the other, suggesting some similarity.	15
118088320	mood	the prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a work	16
118088321	hyperbole	a figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement	17
118088322	didactic	from the Greek for "teaching", these words have the primary aim of teaching or instructing, especially the teaching of moral or ethical principles	18
118088323	inference	to draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented	19
118088324	theme	the central idea or message of a work; the insite it offers into life	20
118088325	tone	similar to mood, tone describes the author's attitude towards his material, the audience, or both	21
118088326	wit	in modern usage, intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights	22
118088327	satire	a work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule	23
118088328	subordinate clause	a word group that contains both a subject and a verb, but cannot stand alone because it does not express a complete thought	24
118088329	semantics	the branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words, their historical and psychological development, their connotations, and their relation to one another	25
118088330	point of view	in literature, the perspective from which a story is told	26
118088331	rhetoric	from the Greek for "orator", this term describes the principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively	27
118088332	figurative language	writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid	28
118088333	imagery	the sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions	29
118088334	generic conventions	this term describes traditions for each genre	30
118088335	denotation	the strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color	31
118088336	antithesis	the opposition or contrast of ideas; the direct opposite	32
118088337	caricature	a verbal description, the purpose of which is to exaggerate or distort, for comic effect, a person's distinctive physical features or other characteristics	33
118088338	antecedent	the word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun	34
118088339	allusion	a direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art	35
118088340	euphemism	from the Greek for "good speech"; a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept	36
118088341	conceit	a fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects	37
118088342	aphorism	a terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or moral principle	38
118088343	connotation	the non-literal, associative meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning	39
118088344	figure of speech	a device used to produce figurative language	40
118088345	apostrophe	a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love	41
118088346	alliteration	a repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words	42
118088347	loose sentence	a type of sentence in which the main idea comes first followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses	43
118088348	onomatopoeia	a figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words	44
118088349	irony	the contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant, or the difference between what appears to be and what is actually true	45
118088350	paradox	a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity	46
118088351	subject complement	the word or clause that follows a linking verb and complements, or completes the subject of a sentence by either renaming it or describing it	47
118088352	sarcasm	from the Greek meaning "to tear flesh"; involves bitter caustic langauge that is meant to hurt or ridicule someone or something	48
118088353	allegory	the device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning	49
118088354	analogy	a similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them	50
118088355	atmosphere	the emotional nod created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author's choice of objects that are described	51
118088356	colloquialism	the use of slang or informalities in speech or writing	52
118088357	extended metaphor	a metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work	53
118088358	invective	an emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language	54
118088359	metonymy	a term from the Greek meaning "changed label" or" substitute name"; a figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it	55
118088360	narrative	the telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events	56
118088361	parallelism	refers to the grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity	57
118088362	anaphora	a sub-type of parallelism, when the exact repetition of words or phrases occurs at the beginning of successive lines or sentences	58
118088363	parody	a work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule	59
118088364	periodic sentence	a sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end	60
118088365	rhetorical modes	the flexible term describes the variety, the conventions, and the purposes of the major kinds of writing	61
118088366	symbolism	generally, anything that represents itself and stands for something else	62
118088367	syntax	the way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences	63
118088368	thesis	the sentence that directly expresses the author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or position	64
118088369	understatement	the ironic minimalizing of fact; it presents something as less significant than it is	65
118088370	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole or, occasionally, the whole is used to represent a part	66