AP Language Vocab #3 Flashcards

2813251444	Juxtaposition	One thing is placed adjacent to another to create an effect, reveal an attitude, or accomplish some other purpose.	0
2813251445	Litote	A figure of speech that emphasizes it's subject by conscious understatement.	1
2813251446	Loose sentence	A sentence that is grammatically complete before its end.	2
2813251447	Metaphor	One thing pictured as if it were something else, suggesting a likeness or analogy. It is an implicit comparison or identification of one thing with another, without the use of "like" or "as".	3
2813251448	Metonymy	A figure of speech that uses the name of an object, person, or idea to represent something with which it is associated.	4
2813251449	Mode of discourse	The manner in which the information is presented in written or spoken form: narration, description, argumentation, and exposition.	5
2813251450	Mood	A feeling of ambience resulting from the tone of a piece as well as the emotional attitude and point of view of the writer/narrator. It establishes the atmosphere in a work of literature or other discourse.	6
2813251451	Motif	The main theme or subject of a work elaborated on in the development of the piece; a recurrent pattern or idea.	7
2813251452	Narrative/narration	A mode of discourse that tells a story and is based on sequences of connected events, usually presented in a straightforward, chronological framework.	8
2813251453	Naturalism	A literary movement that grew out of the realism in France, England, and the U.S. In the late 19th/early-20th centuries; it portrays humans as having no free will, driven only by the natural forces of heredity, environment, and animalistic urges over which they have no control.	9
2813251454	Objectivity	An impersonal presentation of characters and events.	10
2813251455	Onomatopoeia	The use of words that sound like what they mean, such as hiss, boom, and buzz, intended to enhance a passage for the reader or listener.	11
2813251456	Oxymoron	Composed of contradictory words or phrases, such as silent alarm or deadening silence.	12
2813251457	Parable	A short tale that teaches moral; similar to but shorter than allegory.	13
2813251458	Paradox	A statement that seems contradictory or absurd but has a rational meaning.	14
2813251459	Parallelism/parallel structure	A structural arrangement of parts of a sentence, sentences, paragraphs, and larger units of composition by which one element of equal importance with another is equally developed and similarly phrases.	15
2813251460	Parody	A work that ridicules the style of another work by imitating and exaggerating its elements.	16
2813251461	Pastoral	A short descriptive narrative. Usually a poem, about an idealized country life; also called an idyll.	17
2813251462	Pathos	That element in literature which stimulates pity or sorrow. In argument or persuasion it tends to be the evocation of pity from the reader/listener.	18
2813251463	Periodic sentence	A sentence that is not grammatically complete until its last phrase.	19
2813251464	Persona	A fictional voice that a writer adopts to tell a story, determined by subject matter and audience.	20
2813251465	Personification	The attribution of human qualities to a nonhuman or inanimate object.	21
2813251466	Persuasion	One of the fours modes of discourse, it is a form of argumentation in which the language is intended to convince through the appeals to reason or emotion.	22
2813251467	Prose	The ordinary form of written language whiteout metrical structure, in contrast to verse and poetry.	23
2813251468	Protagonist	The main character of a literary work.	24