AP Language Rhetorical Terms Flashcards

4429627744	Active Voice	describes a sentence where the subject performs the action stated by the verb	0
4429637389	Allusion	an indirect reference to something	1
4429645226	Anecdote	a short story used to illustrate a claim	2
4429660268	Antecedent	a thing or event that existed before or logically precedes another	3
4429668860	Apostrophe	A writer or a speaker, using an (_________), detaches himself from the reality and addresses an imaginary character in his speech.	4
4429682169	Diction	speakers choice of words	5
4429694591	Colloquial	the use of informal words, phrases or even slang in a piece of writing	6
4431464627	Connotation	meaning of a word to the readers beyond its definition	7
4431468991	Denotation	the actual meaning of a word, other than what feelings toward the word may suggest	8
4431471221	Jargon	the words used by a group of similar practices	9
4431474949	Vernacular	daily language or common diction	10
4431483059	Didactic	someone who preaches or is moralistic	11
4431485056	Aphorism (or Adage)	a statement of truth or opinion expressed in a concise and witty manner	12
4431487884	Allegory	story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning	13
4434772356	Ellipsis	the appropriate omission of words that are mutually understood and thus unnecessary	14
4434784683	Euphemism	a mild or indirect word substituted for one that is harsh or inappropriate	15
4434845875	Figurative Language	uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation	16
4434845876	Analogy	a comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it	17
4434851944	Hyperbole	exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally	18
4434871091	Idiom	a word or phrase that is not taken literally	19
4434876565	Metaphor	the comparison of one thing to another without the use of like or as	20
4434891688	Metonymy	a word or phrase that is used to stand in for another word	21
4434915280	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	22
4434919906	Simile	a figure of speech that directly compares two things using like or as	23
4434942087	Synesthesia	figure of speech where one sense is described in terms of another	24
4434944382	Personification	a figure of speech where human qualities are given to animals, objects or ideas	25
4434946290	Genre	a category of literary composition	26
4434949434	Imagery	to use figurative language to represent objects, actions and ideas	27
4434963398	Invective	speech or writing that attacks, insults, or denounces a person, topic, or institution	28
4434974665	Juxtaposition	two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect	29
4435009697	Mood	the emotional feeling or atmosphere that a work of literature produces in a reader	30
4435034673	Motif	any recurring element that has symbolic significance in a story	31
4435034674	Oxymoron	figure of speech in which incongruous or seemingly contradictory terms appear side by side	32
4435053138	Pacing	a stylistic device , which shows how fast a story unfolds	33
4435055144	Paradox	a statement that contradicts itself, or that must be both true and untrue at the same time	34
4440139709	Parallelism	a similarity in the syntactical structure of a set of words in successive phrases	35
4440143159	Anaphora	a word or group of words is repeated at the beginning of two or more successive clauses or sentences	36
4440145745	Antithesis	a literary device used to put two contrasting ideas together	37
4440153391	Chiasmus	device in which a sentence or phrase is followed by a sentence or phrase that reverses the structure and order of the first sentence	38
4440157093	Epistrophe	the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences	39
4440161730	Zeugma	a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses	40
4440169030	Parenthetical Idea	an explanatory or qualifying word, clause, or sentence inserted into a passage	41
4440173718	Parody	an imitation of the style of a particular writer with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect	42
4440178363	Persona	the aspect of someones character that is presented or perceived by others	43
4440180218	Alliteration	the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words	44
4440183783	Assonance	the repetition of the sound of a vowel	45
4440185558	Onomatopoeia	the formation of a word associated with what is named "BOOM" "POW"	46
4440190699	Periphrasis	the use of indirect and circulatory speech or writing	47
4440194270	Polysyndeton	when conjunctions are used repeatedly in quick succession	48
4440196575	Asyndeton	the omission of absence of a conjunction between part of a sentence	49
4440199986	Pun	the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar sounding one	50
4440206575	Rhetoric	the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing	51
4440210526	Aristotelian Triangle	ethos, pathos, logos, appealing to logic, emotion, and credibility	52
4440212859	Rhetorical Question	a question you ask without expecting an answer	53
4440217205	Satire	the use of humor,irony, and exaggeration to expose stupidity	54
4440222970	Appositive	noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it	55
4440224955	Independent Clause	a group of words that contain a subject and verb and express a complete thought	56
4440227487	Subordinate Clause	typically introduced by a conjunction that forms part of and is dependent on a main clause	57
4440233195	Compound Sentence	has two independent clauses	58
4440235238	Complex Sentence	contains an independent clause and at least one dependent clause	59
4440241151	Loose Sentence	a type of sentence in which the main idea is elaborated by the previous modifying clauses	60
4440252712	Periodic Sentence	the main clause or predicate is at the end of the sentence	61
4440254108	Symbol	when an object, person, or situation has another meaning than its literal	62
4440257285	Syntax	the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences	63
4440259637	Theme	the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, thoughts, or an exhibition	64
4440262535	Thesis	a statement of theory that is put toward as a premise to be maintained	65
4440264766	Tone	the general character or attitude of a place or piece of writing	66
4440267222	Litotes	the presentation of something as being smaller than actual	67