AP English Language and Composition Flashcards

3315436460	Allegory	Narrative with multiple levels of meaning	0
3315437962	Alliteration	Sequential repetition of similar initial sound	1
3315440276	Allusion	A literary, historical, religious, or mythological refrence	2
3315442874	Anaphora	Repetition of words at start of successive clauses	3
3315446151	Antithesis	Juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced/parallel words	4
3315452397	Aphorism	Concise statement designed to make a point/illustrate commonly held belief	5
3315455267	Apostrophe	Address to something inanimate	6
3315456774	Assonance	Repetition of identical/similar vowel sounds	7
3315460441	Asyndeton	Style where conjunctions are omitted	8
3315461823	Attitude	Tone, voice/mood of writing	9
3315465245	Canon	Accepted as authentic	10
3315466596	Colloquial	Ordinary in language	11
3315467564	Conceit	Prolonged comparison of two unlikely things	12
3315468755	Connotation	Meaning suggested by a word, apart from its denotation	13
3315471667	Consonance	Repetition of two or more consonants	14
3315473540	Convention	Accepted manner, model, or tradition	15
3315476159	Deductive Reasoning	Argument in which specific statement/conclusions are drawn from general principles	16
3315479587	Dialect	Language and speech idiosyncrasies of a specific area, region, group of people	17
3315483375	Diction	Specific word choice to persuade or convey tone	18
3315487595	Didactic	Containing instructive purpose or a lesson	19
3315489330	Elegy	Poetic lament upon death of particular person	20
3315491657	Epistrophe	Repetition of a phrase at the end of sentences	21
3315495790	Epitaph	Praise for a dead person, usually on a headstone	22
3315498218	Ethos	Appeal to text to credibility and character of a writer	23
3315500373	Eulogy	Speech or prose in praise of a deceased person	24
3315502515	Euphemsim	Kinder way to give unpleasant information	25
3315504283	Expository	Explains own meaning or purpose	26
3315506694	Extended Metaphor	Series of comparison	27
3315508311	Genre	Type/class of literature	28
3315509716	Homily	Sermon,talk, lecture on moral or spiritual life	29
3386924286	Hyperbole	Overstatement using exaggerated language	30
3386924706	Imagery	Use of figurative language to evoke feeling/idea, describe an object	31
3386926086	Inductive Reasoning	Argument in which general conclusions are drawn from specific facts	32
3386927648	Inference	Conclusion or proposition arrived at by considering facts/observations/data	33
3386929694	Irony	Contrast between what is stated and what is meant	34
3386930424	Jargon	Specialized/technical language of a trade, profession, or similar group	35
3386931237	Juxtaposition	Location of one thing adjacent to another	36
3386931772	Litote	Figure of speech that emphasizes its subject by conscious statement	37
3386932647	Metaphor	One thing pictured as if it were something else, suggesting likeness; an implied comparison	38
3386933759	Metonymy	Figure of speech in which an attribute/feature is used to name/designate something	39
3386936628	Mood	Feeling/ambience resulting from tone and writer/narrators attitude/point of view	40
3386938394	Narrative	Mode of discourse that tells a story based on sequences of connect events	41
3386939986	Onomatopoeia	Words that sound like what it describes	42
3386941054	Oxymoron	Figure of speech combining two apparent contradictory elements, often humorous	43
3386942065	Paradox	Seemingly contradictory statement	44
3386942571	Pathos	Element in literature that stimulates pity or sorrow	45
3386943750	Personification	Giving human qualities to abstract ideas	46
3386944265	POV	Relation of narrator/author to subject	47
3386944735	Prose	Ordinary form of written language, not poetry	48
3386945479	Realism	Describing nature/life without idealization	49
3386946751	Rebuttal/ Refutation	Countering of anticipated arguments	50
3386947873	Rhetorical Question	Question asked for stylistic effect	51
3386948847	Rhetoric	The art of using words to persuade	52
3386949952	Sarcasm	Verbal irony	53
3386950333	Satire	Literary work that ridicules human feelings	54
3386950803	Simile	Direct comparison, with like or as	55
3386951303	Style	Distinctive manner of expression	56
3386952633	Symbolism	Element of literary work that figuratively stands for something else	57
3386953841	Synecdoche	When a part is used to signify a whole	58
3386954178	Syntax	Sentence structure	59
3386954179	Theme	Central/dominant idea or focus of work	60
3386954805	Tone	Attitude literary work takes toward its subject/theme	61
3386955499	Voice	Source of the words of the story	62