AP Language and Composition: Set 2 Flashcards

4343621500	Bias	Prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue.	0
4343621501	Aphorism	A short, astute statement of a general truth.	1
4343623238	Claim	An assertion usually supported by evidence.	2
4343623239	Close Reading	A careful reading that is attentive to organization, figurative language, sentence structure, vocabulary, and other literary and structural elements of a text.	3
4343623240	Colloquial/ism	An informal or conversational use of language.	4
4343625537	Assumption	A belief or statement taken for granted without proof	5
4343625538	Complex sentence	A sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause.	6
4343627715	Concession	A reluctant acknowledgment or yielding.	7
4343627716	Antithesis	Parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas.	8
4343629027	Context	Words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning.	9
4343629028	Coordination	Grammatical equivalence between parts of a sentence, often through a coordinating conjunction such as and, or but.	10
4343629029	Anecdote	A short account of an interesting event	11
4343631278	Cumulative Sentence	An independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail.	12
4343631279	Antimetabole	The repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast.	13
4343632734	Deduction	Reasoning from general to specific.	14
4343632735	Attitude	The speaker's position on a subject as revealed through his or her tone.	15
4343634890	Diction	Word choice.	16
4343634891	Aristotelian triangle	A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience (see rhetorical triangle).	17