AP Language and Composition Terms

5566294	allegory	an extended narrative in prose or verse in which characters, events, and settings represent abstract ideas
5566295	anaphora	repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row
5566296	antithesis	the presentation of two contrasting images
5566297	aphorism	a short, often witty statement of a principle or a truth about life
5566298	assonace	repetition of vowel sounds between different consonants
5566299	asyndeton	commas used with no conjuction to seperate a series of words
5566300	cacophony	harsh, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately
5566301	caricature	descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature of a person's appearance or a faced of personality
5566302	denotation	literal meaning of a word as defined
5566303	discourse	spoken or written language, including literary works - four main: description, exposition, narration, and persuasion
5566304	epigraph	the use of a quotation at the beginning of a work that hints at its theme
5566305	euphony	a succession of harmonious sounds used in poetry or prose
5566306	explication	the art of interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text
5566307	exposition	the immediate revelation to the audience of the setting and other background information necessary for understanding the plot
5566308	freight-train	sentence consisting of three or more very short independent clauses joined by conjuctions
5566309	metonymy	a figure of speech that uses the name of an object, person, or idea to represent something with which it is associated, such as using "the crown" to refer to a monarch
5566310	non-sequitur	when one statement isn't logically connected to another
5566311	objectivity	an impersonal presentation of events and characters
5566312	omniscient	third person narrator
5566313	limited omniscient	a third person narrator who reports the thoughts of only one character and generally only what that one character sees
5566314	objective	a third person narrator who only reports what would be visible to a camera
5566315	polysyndeton	sentence which uses and or another conjunction with no commas to seperate the items in a series
5566316	protagonist	the main character of a literary work
5566317	Red Herring/Reductio ad Absurdum	when a writer raises an irrelevant issue to draw attention away from the real issue the Latin for "to reduce to the absurd"
5566318	syllogism	a form of reasoning in which two statements are made and a conclusion is drawn from them
5566319	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent a whole, such as using "boards" to mean a stage or "wheels" to mean a car
5566320	syntactic fluency	ability to create a variety of sentence structures, appropriately complex and /or simple and varied in length
5566321	syntactic permutation	sentence structures that are extraordinarily complex and involved. they are often difficult for a reader to follow
5566322	tricolon	sentence consisting of three parts of equal importance and lenght, usually three independent clauses
5566323	voice	refers to two different areas of writing: 1. . relationship between a sentence's subject and verb (active and passive voice) 2. the total "sound" of a writer's style