AP Language Vocab Flashcards

5793313238	mnemonic device	a systematic aid to memory	0
5793313520	apostrophe	directly addressing an absent person or a personified object as if he/she/it could reply	1
5793314611	verisimilitude	the quality of a text that reflects the truth of actual experience	2
5793316032	stream of consciusness	presents the flow of a character's seemingly unconnected thoughts, responses, and sensations	3
5793318256	metonymy	an entity referred to by its attributes or associations	4
5793319805	cloze test	a test of reading ability that requires a person to fill in missing words in a text	5
5793321179	form	primarily the arrangement of words on the page and the use of rhyme and meter, but also the standard conventions of written language such as punctuation, spelling, grammar, capitalization	6
5793322409	syntax	the order of words in a sentence	7
5793322640	anastrophe	inversion or reversal of the usual order of words	8
5793323094	parallelism	a set of similarly structured words, phrases, or clauses	9
5793324175	rhetorical choices	the particular choices a writer or speaker makes to achieve meaning	10
5793324417	dramatic monologue	a speaker addresses a silent listener in a long speech by one character	11
5793324746	allusion	indirect reference to another person, place, event, or literary work	12
5793324943	personification	an object, animal, or idea is given human characterisitics	13
5793325179	diction	choice of words and arrangement	14
5793325318	metaphor	compares two things directly	15
5793326197	imagery	re-creating sensory experiences through descriptive detail	16
5793326495	symbolism	person, place, or object that stands for an idea or feeling beyond itself	17
5793326790	verbal irony	one thing is stated but another thing is meant	18
5793328185	unity	the sense that a text is, appropriately, about only one subject and achieves one major purpose or effect	19
5793328527	ellipsis	the omission of words, the meaning of which is provided by the overall context of a passage	20
5793329427	double entendre	the double meanings of a group of words that the speaker or writer has purposely left ambiguous	21
5793329909	scenic narration	narration in which an event or a moment of a plot is stretched out for dramatic effect	22
5799836349	dialect	the describable patterns of language--grammar and vocabulary--used by a particular cultural or ethnic population	23
5799837815	apologist	a person or character who makes a case for some controversial, even contentious, position	24
5838218224	sensory details	words and phrases that appeal to the senses of sight, smell, touch, hearing, or taste	25
5838222644	figurative language	descriptions that are not literally true	26
5838237356	simile	the comparison of two unlike things using like or as	27
5838239611	exaggeration	overstatement used to stress a point	28
5838263856	graphic aids	informative visuals, such as photographs, charts, diagrams, and maps, that are used to make complex information easier to understand and interpret	29
5838272299	image	a photograph or an illustration	30
5838272311	graph	presents numerical facts or statistics	31
5838275994	chart	presents facts about a topic in an easy-to-read format, often using rows and columns	32
5838279309	diagram	a drawing that shows how something works or how its parts relate to each other	33
5838285259	map	gives information about a physical area	34
5838287656	captions	brief descriptions of what's being shown	35
5838331292	main idea	the most important idea about a topic that a writer wants to convey	36
5838334063	supporting details	words, phrases, or sentences that tell more about the main idea	37
5838352585	historical and cultural context	the time, place, and social conditions that influence a work of literature	38
5838359214	theme	message about life that a writer wants to communicate	39
5838373788	tone	the writer's attitude toward his or her subject	40
5838377137	conflict	the central problems described in a work of literature	41
5838393863	synthesizing	the process of combining individual pieces of information in order to come up with a new idea about a subject	42
5838415677	connotation	emotional association	43
5838420191	formal diction	correct grammar and precise words	44
5838422234	informal diction	casual language (including slang)	45
5838433508	objective	unbiased	46
5838438514	primary sources	firsthand accounts created by people who took part in or witnesses events	47
5838441281	secondary sources	records of events created by people who were not directly involved in or present at those events	48
5838460047	prose	any writing that is not poetry	49
5838461900	fiction	made-up stories about characters and events	50
5838463741	nonfiction	tells about real-life events, places, and people	51
5838499563	inference	a conclusion reached, based on evidence and reasoning	52
5838587992	restricitve	a word, phrase, or clause that provides crucial information about a previously named element	53
5838640546	gerunds	verbals that act as nouns	54
5838668307	transitive verb	able to have a direct object	55