AP Language Flashcards

5319300259	Allegory	A fictional work in which characters represent ideas or concepts	0
5319300260	Alliteration	Repetition of usually consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables	1
5319300261	Allusion	A passing reference to a familiar place, person, or thing drawn from history, the Bible, mythology, or literature	2
5319300262	Anaphora	Repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences	3
5319300263	Anecedote	A brief narrative of an entertaining and true incident	4
5319300264	Aphorism	A concise statement of a principle; a terse formulation of a truth or sentiment	5
5319300265	Bombast	Language that is overly rhetoric (pompous); especially when considered in context	6
5319300266	Chiasmus	A form of antithius in which the second half of the statement inverts the word order of the first half. Example: "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." Joh F Kennedy	7
5319300267	Circumlocution	A roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea	8
5319300268	Concrete language	Language that describes specific, observable things, people or places rather than ideas or places	9
5319300269	Connotation	The associations, images, or impressions carried by a word as opposed to the worlds literal meaning	10
5319300270	Denotation	The dictionary meaning of a word, the literal meaning	11
5319300271	Diction	Choice of words especially with regards to correctness, clearness, or effectiveness	12
5319300272	Ellipsis	A rhetorical device in which words are consciously omitted perhaps because their meaning can be inferred	13
5319300273	Epigraph	A quotation or motto at the beginning of a chapter	14
5319300274	Denotation	The dictionary meaning of a word, the literal meaning	15
5319300275	Diction	Choice of words especially with regard to correctness, clearness or effectiveness	16
5319300276	Ellipsis	A rhetorical device in which words are consciously omitted, perhaps because their meaning can be inferred	17
5319300277	Epigraph	A quotation or motto at the beginning of a book or chapter	18
5319300278	Euphemism	The substitution of a mild, indirect or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh or blunt	19
5319300279	Extended metaphor	A metaphor, or implied comparison, that is sustained for several lines or that becomes the controlling image of the entire poem.	20
5319300280	Figurative language	A term for all uses of language that imply imaginative comparison	21
5319300281	Hyperbole	Obvious, extravagant exaggeration or overstatement not intended to be taken literally but used figuratively to create humor or emphasis	22
5319300282	Imagery	The making of "pictures in words," appeals to the senses of taste, smell, hearing, and touch, and to internal feelings as well as to the sense of sight	23
5319300283	Inverted sentence	A sentence in which the subject follows the verb	24
5319300284	Malapropism	The comic substitution of one word for another similar in sound but quite different in meaning	25