Literary Term: AP Language Flashcards

6333965530	Denotation	The literal, dictionary definition of a word. Ex. The denotation of "chair" is "a place to sit."	0
6333965531	Inductive reasoning	When something is suggested without being concretely stated. Ex. "Watch your wallet around Paul," implies that Paul is a thief but doesn't directly say it.	1
6333965532	Juxtaposition	Placing two very different thing together for effect. Ex. "There stood together, the beggars and the lords, the princesses and the washerwoman, all crowding into the square.	2
6333965533	Rhetorical triangle	The relationship between the author, the audience, the text/message, and the context. Ex. The author communicates to the reader via the text; and the reader and text are surrounded by context.	3
6333965534	Antithesis	The opposition or contrast of ideas; the direct opposite. Ex. In a paper about how dress code policies are bad saying, "Dress code policies are a good idea because..."	4
6333965535	Aphorism	A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or moral principle. Ex. "A penny saved is a penny earned."	5
6333965536	Didactic	Words that have the primary aim of teaching or instructing especially moral or ethical principles. Ex. "All animals are equal but a few are more equal than others."	6
6333965537	Invective	An emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language. Ex. "This sanguine coward, this bedpresser, this horseback breaker, this huge hill of flesh."	7
6333965538	Litote	A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite. Ex. Not a bad idea.	8
6333965539	metonymy	A figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it. Ex. Using "the White House declared" instead of "the President declared."	9
6333965540	Pedantic	An adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish. Ex. The machine will rotate the apparel in a clockwise motion until the clothing has reached a temperature befitting dryness.	10
6333965541	Syllogism	A deductive system of logic that presents two premises which inevitably lead to a sound conclusion. Ex. All people like pizza. Mr. Schooler is a person. Therefore, Mr. Schooler likes pizza.	11
6333965542	Synecdoche	A figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole or, occasionally the whole is used to represent a part. Ex. Referring to a violin as "the strings."	12
6333965543	Synesthesia	The practice of associating two or more different in the same image. Ex. I smell trouble.	13
6333965544	Anaphora	A sub-type of parallelism: the exact repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of successive lines or sentences. Ex. The repetition of "I have a dream" in Martin Luther King's famous speech.	14
6333965545	Asyndeton	A syntactical structure in which conjunctions are omitted in a series. Ex. "I came. I saw. I conquered."	15
6333965546	Chiasmus	A figure of speech and generally a syntactical structure wherein the order of the terms in the first half of a parallel clause is reversed in the second. Ex. "You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget."	16
6333965547	Isocolon	Parallel structure in which the parallel element are similar not only in grammatical structure but also in length. Ex. "American by birth. Rebel by choice."	17
6333965548	Zeugma	A grammatically correct construction in which a word, usually a verb or adjective, is applied to two or more nouns without being repeated. Ex. The thief took my wallet and the bus.	18
6333965549	Onomatopoeia	A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words. Ex. Snap, crackle, pop Ex. Boom boom pow	19