AP Language and Composition Vocab Flashcards
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| 4433599326 | Ad Hominem | Directed to or appealing to feelings or prejudices instead of to intellect or reason | 0 | |
| 4433609335 | Adage | a saying or proverb containing a truth based on experience and often couched in a metaphorical language | 1 | |
| 4433615884 | Allusion | a reference meant to create an effect or enhance the meaning of an idea | 2 | |
| 4433655119 | Analogy | a comparison that points out similarities between two dissimilar things | 3 | |
| 4433664754 | Antithesis | A rhetorical opposition or contrast of idea by means of grammatical arrangement of words or clauses | 4 | |
| 4433673205 | Aphorism | a short, pithy statement generally accepted truth or sentiment | 5 | |
| 4433677719 | Apostrophe | a locution, that addresses a person or personified thing not present | 6 | |
| 4433774653 | Bathos | Insincere or overdone sentimentality | 7 | |
| 4433779325 | Circumlocution | "talking around" a subject | 8 | |
| 4433784914 | Colloquialism | a word or phrase that is not formal or literary | 9 | |
| 4433792409 | Elegy | a poem or prose that laments or meditates on the death of someone of value | 10 | |
| 4433796475 | Epigram | a brief, clever, and memorable statement | 11 | |
| 4433800971 | Epithet | An adjective or phrase that expresses a striking quality of a person or hing | 12 | |
| 4434226782 | Farce | comedy that contains an extravagant and nonsensical disregard of seriousness | 13 | |
| 4434250198 | Invective | abusive language that attacks, insults, or denounces its topic | 14 | |
| 4434277455 | Litotes | an understatement using double negatives | 15 | |
| 4434283445 | Maxim | a saying or proverb expressing common wisdom or truth | 16 | |
| 4434292554 | Non-sequitor | A conclusion that does not logically follow from the previous argument | 17 | |
| 4434302247 | Pedantic | narrowly academic instead of broad and humane | 18 |