AP Language Vocabulary Flashcards

2863810756	Ad hominem	1. Appealing to one's prejudices, emotions, or special interests rather than to one's intellect or reason. 2. Attacking an opponent's character rather than answering his argument.	0
2863813132	Allegory	1. A representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms; figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another. 2. A symbolical narrative	1
2863813133	Bias	A particular tendency, trend, inclination, feeling, or opinion, especially one that is preconceived or unreasoned	2
2863813760	Caricature	A picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things	3
2863816311	Deduction/Deductive reasoning	A process of reasoning in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the premises presented, so that the conclusion cannot be false if the premises are true	4
3269105518	Alliteration	Similar sounds at the beginning of words	5
3269105519	Chiasmus	Reversal of words in parallel phrases	6
3269106160	Denotation	Dictionary definition of a word	7
3269106161	Understatement	Weak representation without a fact base	8
3269106946	Transition	Used to link two or more ideas together	9
3269108703	Allusion	A casual or indirect reference to something	10
3269108704	Anaphora	Repetition of words at the beginning of phrases	11
3269110779	Analogy	A comparison between two or more things	12
3269111322	Ambiguity	Uncertain meaning	13
3269111880	Anecdote	Short account of an event	14
3269111881	Annotation	Noted text	15
3269112898	Antecedent	Expression giving meaning to a proverb	16
3269112899	Antithesis	Opposition/contrast	17
3269113916	Antimetabole	Opposite turn out	18
3269114638	Aphorism	Terse saying embodying the truth	19
3269116281	Appositive	A word/phrase creating juxtaposition	20
3269116885	Apostrophe	A digression addressing someone not present or able to respond	21
3269116886	Argument	A statement, reason, or fact for or against a point	22
3269117790	Anachronism	Something out of it's correct time, particularly ahead	23
3269117791	Atmosphere	Dominant mood/emotional tone	24
3269120203	Assertion	To suggest for consideration as true or possible	25
3269120204	Assumption	A belief regarded as true, which other claims are based off	26
3269121002	Asyndeton	Omissions of conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses	27
3269121003	Attitude	A settle way of thinking or feeling about something	28
3269121004	Audience	The persons reached by a book, radio show, etc.	29
3269122053	Authority	Persuasive force	30
3269122054	Wit	Keen perception between ideas that awaken pleasure	31
3269122646	Cite/citation	Quoting something of authority	32
3269124279	Claim	To state something is the case without evidence	33
3269124280	Clause	Syntactic construction with a subject and predicate forming a part of a sentence or a whole simple sentence	34
3269125806	Colloquialism	Informal/familiar/ordinary way of speaking	35
3269125807	Conceit	Favorable opinion of one's own ability/importance/wit	36
3269126503	Concession	The act of acknowledging what is right/true/proper	37
3269126504	Connotation	Personal meaning of something drawn from personal experience	38
3269127786	Context	Words/surroundings that give meaning to something encompassed in them	39
3269202933	Credible	Worthy of belief or confidence, trustworthy	40
3269202934	Diction	Word choice	41
3269210479	Didactic	Intended for instruction	42
3269210981	Euphemism	The substitution of a mild expression for one more harsh	43
3269211892	Elegiac	Expressing sorrow or lamentation	44
3669289439	Epigram	a witty or pointed statement that is tersely expressed	45
3669289440	Extended metaphor	metaphor continuing through a story	46
3669290219	Ethos	argument coming from a point of authority and drawing on morals	47
3669290220	Explication of text	interpretation or explanation of text	48
3669291439	Figurative language	language with figures of speech	49
3669291440	Figure of speech	expression of language creating an image	50
3669292617	Generic conventions	a general custom	51
3669292618	Genre	a category	52
3669293456	Epistrophe	repetition of words at the end of clauses or sentences	53
3669293457	Homily	inspiring saying or cliche, or religious sermon	54
3669297040	Hortatory	encouraging to some action	55
3669297041	Hyperbole	extreme exaggeration	56
3669298813	Inference/infer	a logical conclusion	57
3669298814	Imagery	formation of mental images	58
3669300479	Induction/inductive reasoning	form of reasoning where the conclusion does not necessarily follow the evidence	59
3712215206	Invective	an insulting or offensive word or expression	60
3712215207	Inversion	reversal of the usual order of words	61
3712216070	Irony/ironic	words meaning the opposite of what they actually mean	62
3712219262	Juxtaposition	placing things next to each other for emphasis/comparison	63
3712220826	Logos	logic based argument	64
3727794531	Metaphor	comparison not using like or as	65
3727796826	Metonymy	a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part, as"scepter" for "sovereignty," or "the bottle" for"strong drink," or "count heads (or noses)" for"count people.".	66
3727805047	Mood	a state of feeling at a certain time	67
3727807024	Modifier	a word that limits the sense of another word	68
3727810588	Narrative	a story or account of events	69
3799151162	Omniscient narrator	author provides inside for every character	70
3799152408	Onomatopoeia	sound words	71
3799155216	Oxymoron	words that contradict each other	72
3799156604	Paradox	a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth	73
3799155217	Parallelism	agreement in direction, tendency, or character. A comparison	74