AP Test Terms

	the word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.
	a breif statement that expresses a general truth or moral principle.
	a grammatical unit of syntax that contains both a subject and a verb.
	teaching, a didactic workhas the purpose of insturcting, especially a moral principle.
	the most popular are the apostrophe, hyperbole, irony, metaphor, metonomy, oxymoron, paradox, personification, etc.
	the different forms of writing/styles within a genre.
	the major category which a literary work fits.
	a sermon.
	refers to figurative language and figures of speech instead of just a sensory description.
	to draw a reasonable conclusion from the info presented.
	strongly worded, violent, verbal attack, or a strongly worded attitude.
	an adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish.
	a subject complement.
	noun/noun phrase that renames the subject.
	branch of linguistics that studies the meanings of words, their historical and physchological development, their connotations, their relationship to one another.
	1.)an evaluation of the writer's choices in language. 2.)classification of a writer to a group.
	word/phrase/clause that follows a linking verb and completes the subject by renaming/describing.
	clasue that cannot stand alone in a sentence
	deductive system of reasoning based on a major and minor premise and a conclusion.
	anything that reperesents something else.
	author's choice of words.
	central idea/message of a work.
	an author's attitude towards a subject.
	a word or phrase that links different ideas, usually a shift from one idea to another.
	the intentional ironic minimalizing of a fact, opposite of hyperbole.
	intellectually amusing language that suprises and delights, speedy or quick perception.
	a writer's intellectual position or emotion regarding the subject of the writing.
	pointing out as a gesture of fairness the good points of the viewpoint opposite of your own.
	refers to nouns that name physical objects.
	the relationiship between meaning(what is said) and rhetoric(how it is said).
	"defend" means to agree with passage, "challenge" means to agrue against the passage, "qualify" means to reserve judgement.
	sensory, appealing to the visual senses.
	figures of speech, syntax, diction, and other stylistic elements that produce an artistic effect.
	how diction, syntax, figurative language, and sentence structure create a cumulative effect.
	the tools of the storyteller.
	devices and other considerations of a story such as setting, opening conflict, rising action, climax, atmosphere, tone, narration type, etc.
	the style of telling the story.
	"observation" means examples from your wisdom, "experience" means examples from your own life, "reading" means examples derived from literature.
	words in the passage that have strong connotations, words that intensify the emotional effect.
	presents a coherent argument in which the evidence builds to a logical and relevent conclusion, appeals to the audience's emotions or ethical standards.
	either the style of narration or the attitude reflected by the author.
	refers to all of the devices of composition available to the writer.
	tools of rheotric, such as tone, diction, and imagery.
	how a passage is constructed, organization of images, details or arguements to serve the author's purpose.
	a look at the type of sentences the author uses and the effect it causes.
	analyze all the elements in language that contribute to style.