AP language Flashcards

2956295481	diction	word choice	0
2956297295	didactic	a term used to describe fiction, nonfiction or poetry that teaches a specific lesson	1
2956302412	ellipsis	. . . (the cutting out of unneeded parts)	2
2956307229	induction	the process of reasoning from premises that constitute good (opposite of deduction)	3
2956313579	inference/infer	to draw a reasonable conclusion from information presented	4
2956317241	invective	an emotionally violent verbal denunciation or attack (swearing)	5
2956324714	imperative sentence	issuing a command (kick the ball now!)	6
2956327761	juxtaposition	placing things side by side for purpose of comparison	7
2956330416	metaphor	a figure os speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things	8
2956335734	passive voice	the subject of the sentence receives the action	9
2956339022	persona	the fictional mask or narrator that tells a story	10
2956342388	personification	a type of figurative language which attributes human qualities to non human things	11
2956349196	predicate adjective	adjective follows linking verb, describes first word	12
2956353651	predicate nominative	noun follows linking verb, renames the first word	13
2956357685	refutation	when writer musters relevant opposing arguments	14
3014154671	abstract language	language that describes ideas and qualities rather then people and things	15
3014162506	active voice	the subject of the sentence performes that action (jeff kicked the ball)	16
3014166933	ad hominem	"against the man" when writer acts person rather then their work	17
3014171673	allegory	a story in which characters, things, and events that represent qualities or concepts	18
3014186711	alliteration	the rep. of initial identical consonant sounds	19
3014191655	allusion	reference to something with which the readers is supposed to be familiar with (allude to)	20
3014198967	ambiguity	an event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way	21
3014205154	analogy	a comparison to a directly parallel case	22
3014211359	anaphora	rep. of a word, phase, or clause- debilrate	23
3014216961	anecdote	a brief recounting of a relevant episode (short personal story)	24
3014223282	concrete language	language that describes specific observable things, people or places rather then ideas of qualities	25
3014235442	connotation	implied meaning rather then dictionary meaning	26
3014244654	consonance	rep. of constant sound	27
3014246811	deduction	2 moving from general statements we accept as true	28
3014253331	denotation	to signify or stand as a name for/ explicit meaning of a word	29