AP Language Flashcards

2860810740	rhetorical style	the art of study of using language effectively and persuasively and to influence/please others	0
2860810741	rhetorical triangle	the writer, audience, and context which make the strongest points within your argument	1
2860810742	syntax	the arrangement of words and phrases to create well formed sentences in a language.	2
2860810743	diction	is a style of speaking or writing determined by the choice of words by a speaker or writer	3
2860810744	argument	is the main statement of the poem, essay, short story, or a novel that usually appears as an introduction or a point on which it will develop its writing in order to convince its readers.	4
2860810745	devices of language	a literary on linguistic technique that produces a specific effect.	5
2860810746	tone	is the attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience. It is generally conveyed through words on viewpoint.	6
2860810747	imagery	visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.	7
2860810748	figures of speech	any expressive use of language, as a metaphor, simile, personification, synecdoche, in which words aren't used in a literally sense to create a special effect.	8
2860810749	metaphor	a figure of speech in which two things have an implied comparison that are poles apart from each other but have some common characteristics between them. A resemblance between two contradictory objects.	9
2860810750	simile	a figure of speech that makes a comparison, show similarities between different things. It makes a direct comparison using 'like' or 'as'	10
2860810751	trope	a figure of speech through which speakers or writers intend to express meanings of words differently than their literal meanings. It is a metaphorical/figurative use of words in which writers switch to non literal meaning	11
2860810752	metonymy	a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept to that of another or which it is part	12
2860810753	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole, or the whole for a part	13
2860810754	the special for the general of the general for the special as		14
2860810755	phrasing	a group of words that the mind momentarily focuses on as powerful and precedes with pauses	15
2860810756	balanced sentence	a sentence consisting of two or more clauses that are parallel in structure	16
2860810757	subordination	adding a subordinating conjunction to a phrase to make it depend on the other parts of the sentence.	17
2860810758	parallelism	the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same, or are similar in their construction , sound, meter, or other	18
2860810759	repetition	a literary device that reuses the same words or ideas to make an idea clearer. It could be a word , phrase, full sentence or poetical line.	19
2860810760	description	writing that appeals to the 5 sense, maybe informative, impressionistic. organizational,or contain figurative language	20
2860810761	persuasion	a form of writing in which the writer appeals to reason, values, beliefs, and emotions to convince a reader or listener to think or act in a particular way	21
2860810762	exposition	writing that explains or informs that is used mostly in nonfiction especially articles, essays, and various books,	22
2860810763	narration	writing that tells a story or retells a sequence or events within a particular time frame and needs a point of view	23
2860810764	amplification	a practice where the writer embellishes the sentence by adding more information to it in order to increase its worth and understand ability	24
2860810765	litotes	understatement, especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by a negative of its contrary	25
2860810766	tricolon	a term for a series of three parallel worlds, phrases, clauses	26