AP English Language & Comp Flashcards

4859085559	Polemical	Involving strongly critical, comtroversial writing or speech	0
4859085560	Diction	Choice of words	1
4859085561	Syntax	Arrangement of words	2
4859085562	Trope	Artful diction Ex: metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole	3
4859085563	Scheme	Artful syntax Ex: parallelism, juxtaposition, antithesis	4
4859085564	Figure of speech	An expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying literal meaning Ex: metaphor	5
4859085565	Periodic sentences	Moving towards something important at the end	6
4859085566	Cumulative sentence	Adding details that support an important idea in the beginning	7
4859085567	Annotation	A note of explanation or comment added to a text or diagram	8
4859085568	Imagery	Feel, smell, touch, taste, sight	9
4859085569	Oxymoron	Figure of speech when contradictory terms appear in conjunction	10
4859085570	Zeugma	Use of 2 different words in a grammatically similar way but producing different, often incongruous, meanings	11
4859085571	Subordinate conjunction	A conjunction that introduces an dependent clause Ex: since, that, who	12
4859085572	Compound sentence	A sentence with more than one subject or predicate (the part of a sentence or clause containing a verb and stating something about the subject e.g., went home in John went home ).	13
4859085573	Archaic diction	Old fashioned or outdated choice of words	14
4859085574	Complex sentences	Contains subordinate clauses	15
4859085575	Declarative sentences	In a form of a statement (the subject is normally before the verb)	16
4859085576	Anaphora	Repetition of a word or phrase at beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines	17
4859085577	Hortative sentences	Language that urges or calls to action (encourage)	18
4859085578	Imperative	Urge, implore, ask (command)	19
4859142369	Coordinating conjunctions	For, and , nor, but, or, yet, so ( FANBOYS)	20
4859142370	Antimetabole (inversion)	Repetition of words in reverse order	21
4867588039	Rhetoric	The study and use of the arts of effective and persuasive communication	22
4867588040	Audience	One's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or a piece of writing is addressed to	23
4867588041	Context	Words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning	24
4867588042	Purpose	One's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing	25
4867588043	Subject	The topic addressed in a piece of writing	26
4867588044	Assertion	Emphatic statement; declaration	27
4867588045	Persona	The speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing	28
4867588046	Logos	Appeal to logic	29
4867588047	Ethos	Appeal to credibility	30
4867588048	Pathos	Appeal to emotion	31
4867588049	Tone	The speaker's attitude towards the subject or audience	32
4867588050	Concede (concession)	Agree	33
4867588051	Refute (refutation)	Deny	34
4867588052	Induction	Reasoning from specific to general	35
4867588053	Allusion	Brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art	36
4867588054	Antithesis	Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction	37
4867588055	Asyndeton	Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words	38
4867588056	Juxtaposition	Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparison or contrast	39
4867588057	Metonymy	Using a single feature to represent a whole	40
4867588058	Parallelism	Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	41
4867588059	Rhetorical questions	Figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer	42
4964126588	Colloquialism	a word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation.	43