AP Literature Exam Review: Style Flashcards

2045135345	Diction	Author's Choice of Words	0
2045142553	Connotation	the emotional sense of a word or the cultural meaning associated with the word	1
2045166752	Denotation	the dictionary or precise meaning of a word	2
2045184335	Style	The voice of the writer: types and lengths of sentences, types of words used, and the extent to which he or she uses imagery and figurative language	3
2045192741	Authoritative	The voice is commanding and knowing	4
2045193233	Emotive	The voice evokes emotion	5
2045194628	Didactic	The voice in preachy, insistent	6
2045195614	Objective	The voice is uncommitted, without judgment	7
2045196447	Ornate	The voice is perhaps pretentious, flowery, or ostentatious	8
2045197847	Plain	The voice is simple, straightforward, to the point	9
2045199329	Scholarly	The voice is learned and authoritative, erudite	10
2045200221	Scientific	The voice is precise and relies on the language of science (Latinate words)	11
2045201486	Imagery	Language that engages the senses and evokes emotion	12
2045202954	Visual Imagery	What we can see	13
2045204383	Auditory	What we can hear	14
2045205403	Tactile	What we can touch	15
2045206039	Olfactory	What we can smell	16
2045208086	Gustatory	What we can taste	17
2045208815	Kinesthetic	Sense of movement	18
2045209472	Organic	Internal sense of being (well or ill)	19
2045211550	Helps establish tone, Creates realistic settings, Creates empathy in readers for characters, Helps readers imagine themselves as part of a narrative	Effects of imagery	20
2045216477	Tone	the attitude of the speaker toward another character, a place, an idea, or a thing--its emotional quality	21
2045249059	Mood	Used most often in association with setting, this is the emotional quality of the setting	22
2045255748	Syntax	The order of words in a sentence, affecting pace and better emphasizing ideas.	23
2045270094	Periodic Sentence	The most important idea comes at the end of the sentence	24
2045271840	Loose Sentence	The most important idea is revealed early and the sentence unfolds loosely after that.	25
2045273413	Parallel Sentence	Balanced; contains parts of equal grammatical structure or rhetorical value in a variety of combinations	26
2045279390	Anaphora	Repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of a series of phrases, clauses, or sentences	27
2045280885	Antistrophe	Repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases or clauses	28
2045282611	Asyndeton	Conjunctions are OMITTED between words, phrases, or clauses	29
2045284373	Chiasmus	Two corresponding pairs ordered this way: a/b/b/a	30
2045287949	Polysyndeton	The USE of conjunctions between each word, phrase, or clause	31
2045290582	Simple Sentence	Short, direct: subject, verb, and their modifiers and complements	32
2045294091	Compound Sentence	2 independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction	33
2045295875	FANBOYS	coordinating conjunctions used in compound sentences: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so	34
2045298017	Complex Sentence	Contains an independent clause and a dependent subordinate clause	35
2045300703	Compound-Complex Sentence	Contains 2 independent clauses and a dependent (subordinate) clause	36
2045302163	Declarative Sentence	Makes a statement	37
2045302904	Imperative Sentence	Makes a command	38
2045304389	Interrogative Sentence	Asks a Question	39
2045305286	Exclamatory Sentence	Makes an emphatic or emotion-filled statement!	40
2045306063	Climax	The main idea or most important point in a sentence, varied for effect	41
2045307204	Cadence	The rhythm or "music" of a sentence that comes through parallel elements and repetition	42
2045309344	Narrative Pace	The pace or speed of a passage that comes through the following elements: length of words, omission of words or punctuation, length of sentences, number of dependent/subordinate clauses, repetition of sounds	43
2045313651	Prominence	The importance given an idea in a sentence	44
2045314880	Position	Where the key idea is located	45
2045316319	Pace	The speed of the text, generally complementing the author's purpose	46
2045318072	Figurative Language	Language not meant to be taken literally.	47
2045321909	Allegory	A symbolic description or narrative (poetry or prose) with a secondary, or underlying, meaning.	48
2045326106	Character Allegory	Characters often represent various ideal qualities	49
2045327344	Apostrophe	Addressing something (or someone) nonliving or incapable of response as if it could hear and respond	50
2045328752	Irony	A discrepancy between what is perceived and what is real	51
2045330214	Verbal Irony	When what is said is different from what is meant	52
2045331440	Dramatic Irony	When the reader knows something a character does not know	53
2045333028	Situational Irony	When some aspect of the situation seems incongruous to either what seems appropriate or to what is expected	54
2045337018	Metaphor	A comparison of two dissimilar things in order to see one in a new way	55
2045893753	Metonymy	use of a closely related detail for the thing actually meant	56
2045896305	Hyperbole (Overstatement)	Saying more than the situation warrants, which illuminates the truth	57
2045897060	Paradox	a statement that consists of two contradictory or incompatible elements, revealing the truth	58
2045900997	Personification	Attributing human qualities or characteristics to non-living or non-human things in order to create empathy	59
2045904426	Simile	A metaphor that uses "like" or "as"	60
2045905603	Homeric (Epic) Simile	An extended simile used in epic poems and Greek dramas, using "just as" or "so then" most often	61
2045910341	Synecdoche	The use of a part for the whole	62
2045952811	Symbol	A thing, person, or idea that stands for something else	63
2045954348	Understatement	Saying less than the situation warrants, illuminating the truth.	64