AP Language Flashcards

3844927024	Periodic sentences	A sentence that by leaving the completion of its main clause to the end, produces an effect of suspense	0
3844927025	Metonymy	Figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concepts for that of another to which its related	1
3844927026	Nomenclature	Terminology used in a particular science, art, activity	2
3844927027	Objective	Not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice	3
3844927028	Subjective	Placing excessive emphasis on ones own moods, attitudes, opinions etc	4
3844927029	Overstatement	To state to strongly, exaggerate	5
3844927030	Pedantic	Overly concerned with minute details	6
3844927031	Periodic structure	The main idea of peace of writing especially an argument, is left until the very end for effect or emphasis	7
3844927032	Syllogism	Conclusion is drawn	8
3844927033	Omniscient	The narrator knows the thoughts of all the characters in the story	9
3844927034	Prepositional phrase	Part of speech that indicates the relationship often spatial, of one word to another	10
3844927035	Rhetorical modes	A strategy... A way or method of presenting a subject-- through writing or speech	11
3844927036	Rhetorical question	A question asked solely to produce an affect or to make an assertion and not to elicit a reply	12
3844927037	Synecdoche	Figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole	13
3844927038	Transition	Change from one position to another	14
3844927039	Passive voice	When the subject of the sentence is acted on by the verb	15
3844927040	Zeugma	Use of two different words in grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous meanings	16
3844927041	Ad hominem argument	Switching from the argument at hand to the character opponent	17
3844927042	Anachronism	Something or someone who is not in its correct chronological opponent	18
3844927043	Anaphora	Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines	19
3844927044	Astrophe	Inversion of the usual order of words	20
3844927045	Antecedent	A word (usually a proper noun) that is replaced by a pronoun later in a sentence	21
3844927046	Antithesis	Opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction	22
3844927047	Aphorism	A terse saying embodying a general truth	23
3844927048	Apostrophe	A digression in the form of an address to someone not present	24
3844927049	Assonance	Vowel rhyme, the same vowel sound is used within the same stressed syllables of different words	25
3844927050	Asyndeton	Omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases clauses or word	26
3844927051	Chaismus	Reversal in order of words in otherwise two parallel phrases	27
3844927052	Clause	Collection of words that has a subject that is actively doing a verb.	28
3844927053	Phrase	Collection of words that may have nouns or verbs, but it does not have a subject doing a verb	29
3844927054	Consonance	The correspondence of a constants, especially those at the end of a word, in a passage of prose	30
3844927055	Soliloquy	Discourse by a person who is talking to himself	31
3844927056	Ellipsis	The omission of one or more words from q sentence that would clarify construction; sometimes marks as "..."	32
3844927057	Conceit	An elaborate, fancil metaphor, especially of far fetched nature	33
3844927058	Fallacy	A logically unsound argument	34
3844927059	Invective	An insulting or abusive word or expression	35
3844927060	Litotes	Figure of speech in which something is presented as less important, dire, good, etc. an understatement	36
3844927061	Looses sentences	A sentence that does not end with the completion of its main clause, but continue with one or more subordinate clauses	37