AP Language Week #4 Terms Flashcards

5259274270	pacing	tempo, rhythm, fluency of a piece that establishes the rate of development of points	0
5259286279	parable	short, simple story with moral lesson that is directly stated	1
5259289501	paradox	on the surface a statement that appears false, but is truthful in some way	2
5259297087	parallelism	rhetorical and grammatical term--equally important ideas presented in similar sentence construction--like verbal echoes	3
5259304834	parody	work that ridicules a serious piece of writing or a particular writer's style in a flippant or inappropriate manner	4
5259318088	pedantic	style in which one is a show-off or obsessed with minutia	5
5259325517	periodic sentence	opposite of loose sentence--the important idea is delayed until the completion of the sentence	6
5259335181	personification	figure of speech in which objects or ideas are given human qualities	7
5259338718	persuasion	writing to convince an audience of an opinion or to do an action--requires logic and proof	8
5259345545	point of view	the vantage point from which the narrator relates the events of the narrative (first person, omniscient, etc.)	9
5259354344	predicate adjective	an adjective found only after a linking verb--always modifies the subject--found in predicate part of the sentence	10
5259368871	predicate nominative	a noun or pronoun (nominative=name) found only after a linking verb--found in predicate part of the sentence	11
5259379213	prose	language that is not poetry in form--sentences and paragraphs--used in novels, short stories, essays, etc.	12
5259389896	purpose	the author's planned subject to be discussed or end to be achieved	13
5259393946	reading	taking in the sense of a work, both literally and figuratively, to allow analysis	14
5259400006	reliability	narrator's quality of being trustworthy	15