AP LANG LANGUAGE TERMS Flashcards
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| 5512608227 | Absolute Language (unique, always, never, perfect) | describing something with a quality that lacks degrees, helps speaker convey a confident tone | 0 | |
| 5512629000 | Ad Hominem Fallacy (congressman Smithers supports the tax break for the rich, because he is a greedy jerk, and it will put money in his pocket) | part of argumentation, doesn't address the soundness of another side's argument, attacks the character of a person who conveys that other side of the argument | 1 | |
| 5512668888 | Allusion | figure of speech making an indirect connection to something commonly known | 2 | |
| 5512671284 | Anadiplosis (a man could stand and see the whole wide reach of the blue Atlantic, but he stayed ashore. He stayed ashore and...) | repetition of last word or phrase from the previous line | 3 | |
| 5512672969 | Analogy (Finding a cure for cancer is much like finding a cure for inflation) | A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. | 4 | |
| 5512675334 | Anaphora (We've lost our sense of decency, we've lost our credibility in the eyes of other nations, we've lost our way as a nation) | repeating a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences for emphasis and rhythm | 5 | |
| 5512678847 | Antimetabole (Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country) | repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order, used to draw attention to what is said (emphasis) | 6 | |
| 5512682904 | Antiphratic Language ("hey shorty" to a tall person) | irony of one, often derisively through patent contradiction | 7 | |
| 5512684973 | Antithesis (You are going, I am staying) | contrasting words or ideas often in parallel structure, used to show contrast or opposition of thoughts | 8 | |
| 5512687645 | Aphorism (life is short) | a concise statement | 9 | |
| 5512690984 | Argumentum Ad Baculum: (All those opposed to my arguments for the opening of a new department, signify by saying "I resign") | fallacy committed when one appeals to force or the threat of force to bring about the acceptance of a conclusion | 10 | |
| 5515711463 | Asyndeton (I came, I saw, I conquered) | rushing a series of clauses together without conjunctions in an emotional haste | 11 | |
| 5515717255 | Chiasmus (What is learned unwillingly is gladly forgotten) | crossing parallelism, AB structure turns to BA | 12 | |
| 5515721479 | Colloquial Language (ain't done nothing) | slang/informalities in speech | 13 | |
| 5515765114 | Conditional Sentence (If we married, our parents would be happy) | an 'if' question, focuses on truth or fact | 14 | |
| 5515768117 | Cumulative Sentence (Sarah waited, anxious and concerned that the class had been canceled) | Begins with modifying clause, ends with series of modifying phrases/clauses | 15 | |
| 5515770937 | Declarative Sentence (There is nothing to fear) | makes a statement, communicates that the speaker is confident | 16 | |
| 5515773018 | Either- or Fallacy | is a fallacy in that it suggests there are strictly two sides to an argument | 17 | |
| 5515780411 | Epistrophe (They saw no evil, they heard no evil, they spoke no evil) | repetition of a group of words at the end of successive clauses | 18 | |
| 5515784654 | Exclusive language (the, them, you) | language seeking to alienate/ ostracize others, exclude from a group creating a sense of us vs them | 19 | |
| 5515787293 | Hyperbole (I could eat a horse) | an over exaggeration to make a point | 20 | |
| 5515868172 | Imperative (Sit!) | direct command to someone | 21 | |
| 5515972003 | Inclusive Language (we , us) | language seeking to include everyone | 22 | |
| 5516242590 | Metaphor (His voice was a cascade of emotion) | implied comparison between two unlike things not using the word like or as | 23 | |
| 5516260436 | Narrative Pace | How quickly writing moves from one event to another, i.e. shorter fragmented sentences create a sense of urgency | 24 | |
| 5516263833 | Parallelism (we will stand, fight, and die for our freedom....he was a loyal friend, an honest politician, and a compassionate citizen) | similarly structured words/phrases that appears in succeeding sentences or paragraphs | 25 | |
| 5516269811 | Periodic Sentence ( If, instead of listening to the war-mongers of the military-industrial establishment, the politicians had only listened to what people had been writing in their letters and in the newspaper columns...the war would have ended long ago) | sentence beginning with a series of subordinate modifying phrases and clauses, often to create a crescendo affect, ending with a forceful independent clause | 26 | |
| 5516372278 | Polysyndeton | use of many conjunctions to separate clauses and phrases | 27 | |
| 5516423603 | Qualifying Language (I like to eat ice cream, but not after I have eaten a large meal) | A word or group of words limiting or specifying another word, phrase, clause | 28 | |
| 5516427649 | Pun (The spoiled turkey was a fowl) | play on words | 29 | |
| 5516455063 | Reductio ad Absurdum ( if all cats have four legs, and all dogs have four legs, then all cats must be dogs) | a proposition is disproven by following its implications logically to an absurd outcome | 30 | |
| 5516509167 | Slippery Slope Fallacy | that one action will lead to further actions that end in a negative consequence | 31 | |
| 5516511492 | Connotation | an idea or feeling a word invokes | 32 | |
| 5516513755 | Double Entendre | word/ phrase open to two meaning, one of which is usually risque | 33 | |
| 5516515898 | Salutation | gesture of greeting | 34 | |
| 5516517412 | Satiric Tone | human foolishness and vice is attacked through irony and humor | 35 | |
| 5516519544 | Syllogism (if A=B, and B=C, then A=C) | series of statements in which a logical conclusion is drawn from inarguable premises | 36 | |
| 5516522861 | Zeugma (She carried her lipstick and her bible) | one word usually yoked together with two other elements that are unrelated | 37 | |
| 5516561617 | Acquisent | ready to accept something without protest | 38 | |
| 5516562736 | Admonishing | Warn/reprimend | 39 | |
| 5516563344 | Anachronistic | not in its correct historical timeline (ie trump) | 40 | |
| 5516564246 | Circutious | longer than the most direct way | 41 | |
| 5516565396 | Conciliatory | Intending to diffuse hostility | 42 | |
| 5516566141 | Delusory | False Impression | 43 | |
| 5516566619 | Didactic | intended to teach | 44 | |
| 5516567111 | Disdainful | Contempt, lack of respect | 45 | |
| 5516567813 | Dubious | Hesitating/doubtful | 46 | |
| 5516570011 | Indicting | to accuse of a serious crime | 47 | |
| 5516570012 | Indignant | Feeling anger toward something perceived as unfair | 48 | |
| 5516571427 | Injudicious | very bad judgement | 49 | |
| 5516572040 | Jingoistic | Nationalism in the form of aggressive foreign policy | 50 | |
| 5516572561 | Munificent | larger/ more generous than is usual or neccesary | 51 | |
| 5516573238 | Pejorative | expressing content or disapproval | 52 | |
| 5516573889 | placative | to appease or quell anger | 53 | |
| 5516574591 | Supercilious | thinking one is superior to others | 54 | |
| 5516576050 | Trepedity | Timidness | 55 | |
| 5516576491 | Transgression | acting against the law | 56 | |
| 5516576817 | Unassaliable | unable to be attacked or defeated | 57 | |
| 5516577131 | urbane | refined in manner | 58 | |
| 5550312964 | Asyndeton | absence of a conjunction between words | 59 |