Term 2 AP Language 2016-2017 Flashcards

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