AP Language Flashcards

4815937992	Alliteration	The repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of conservative words or syllables	0
4815937993	Allusion	An indirect reference, often to another text or an historical event	1
4815937994	Analogy	An extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things	2
4815937995	Anaphora	The repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses	3
4815937996	Anecdote	A short account of an interesting event ( a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.)	4
4815937997	Annotation	Explanatory or critical notes added to a text	5
4815937998	Antecedents	The noun to which a later pronoun refers	6
4815937999	Antimetabole	The repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contract	7
4815938000	Antithesis	Parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas	8
4815938001	Aphorism	A short, astute statement of a general truth	9
4815938002	Appositive	A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun	10
4815938003	Archaic diction	The use of words common to an earlier time period; antique language	11
4815938004	Argument	A statement put forth and supported by evidence	12
4815938005	Aristotelian triangle	A diagram that represents a rhetoric situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience	13
4815938006	Assertion	An emphatic statement; declaration. An assertion supported by evidence becomes an argument	14
4815938007	Assumption	A belief or statement taken for granted without proof	15
4815938008	Asyndeton	Leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses	16
4815938009	Attitude	The speaker's position on a subject as revealed through his or her tone	17
4815938010	Audience	One's listener or readership, those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed	18
4815938011	Authority	A reliable respected source someone with knowledge	19
4861128765	Bias	Prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject or issue	20
4861128766	Claim	An assertion, usually supported by evidence	21
4861128767	Close reading	A careful reading that is attentive to organization, figurative language, sentence structure, vocabulary and other literary and structural elements of the text	22
4861128768	Colloquial / ism	An informal or conversational use of language	23
4861128769	Common ground	Shared beliefs, values, or positions	24
4861128770	Complex sentence	A sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause	25
4861128771	Concession	A reluctant acknowledgement or yielding	26
4861128772	Connotation	That which is implied by a word, as opposed to the words meaning. ... "the word "discipline" has unhappy connotations of punishment and repression"	27
4861172533	Context	Words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning	28
4861172534	Coordination	Grammatical equivalence between parts of a sentence, often through a coordinating conjunction such as "and" or "but"	29
4861198032	Counterargument	A challenge to a position; an opposing argument	30
4861198033	Declarative sentence	A sentence that makes a statement	31
4861240531	Deduction	Reasoning from general to specific	32
4861240532	Denotation	The literal meaning of a word ;it's dictionary definition	33
4861240533	Diction	Word Choice	34
4861240534	Documentation	Bibliographic information about the sources used in a piece of writing	35
4861867101	Cite	Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source	36