AP Language and Composition Terms Flashcards
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| 4801988152 | Tone | Similar to mood, tone describes the author's attitude toward his material, the audience, or both. Tone is easier to determine in spoken language than in written language. Considering how a work would sound if ti were read aloud can help in identifying an author's tone. Some words describing tone are playful, serious, businesslike, sarcastic, humorous, formal, ornate, sardonic, and somber. | 0 | |
| 4802146137 | Persuade | Ethos, Pathos, Logos | 1 | |
| 4802148427 | Denotation | The strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion attitude, or color | 2 | |
| 4802148428 | Connotation | The nonliteral, associative meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning. Connotations may involve ideas, emotions, or attitudes. | 3 | |
| 4802148429 | Colloquial | The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing. Not generally acceptable for formal writing, colloquialisms give a work a conversational, familiar tone. Colloquial expressions in writing include local or regional dialects. | 4 | |
| 4802151187 | Contrastive | syntactically establishing a relationship of contrast between sentences or elements of a sentence | 5 | |
| 4802151979 | Concrete | details that relate to or describe actual, specific things or events | 6 | |
| 4802151980 | ABSTRACT | a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance | 7 | |
| 4802151981 | Didactic | From the Greek, didactic literally means "teaching." Didactic works have the primary aim of teaching or instructing, especially the teaching of moral or ethical principles. | 8 | |
| 4802152964 | Nostalgic | unhappy at being away and longing for familiar things or persons | 9 | |
| 4802152965 | Contemptuous | showing or expressing hatred or disdain; scornful | 10 | |
| 4802153599 | Sardonic | grimly or scornfully mocking, bitterly sarcastic | 11 | |
| 4802153600 | Mood | The emotion evoked by a text. | 12 | |
| 4802153601 | Imagery | vivid descriptive language that appeals to one or more of the senses. | 13 | |
| 4802153602 | Setting | the time, place, and environment in which action takes place | 14 | |
| 4802154393 | Figurative Language | Language in which figures of speech (such as metaphors, similes, and hyperbole) freely occur. | 15 | |
| 4802154394 | Allusion | A brief, usually indirect reference to a person, place, or event--real or fictional. | 16 | |
| 4802154395 | Simile | A figure of speech in which two fundamentally unlike things are explicitly compared, usually in a phrase introduces by "like" or "as." | 17 | |
| 4802155401 | Metaphor/Extended metaphor | A figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something important in common. | 18 | |
| 4802155402 | Personification | A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities. | 19 | |
| 4802155403 | Hyperbole | A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect; and extravagant statement. | 20 | |
| 4802156393 | Understatement | A figure of speech in which a writer deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is. | 21 | |
| 4802156394 | Paradox | A statement that appears to contradict itself. | 22 | |
| 4802157380 | Dramatic Irony | (theater) irony that occurs when the meaning of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play | 23 | |
| 4802157381 | Verbal Irony | a figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant | 24 | |
| 4802157382 | Analogy | Reasoning or arguing from parallel cases. | 25 | |
| 4802158471 | Anecdote | A brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event. | 26 | |
| 4802158472 | Allegory | Extending a metaphor so that objects, persons, and actions in a text are equated with meaning that lie outside the text. | 27 | |
| 4802158473 | Deductive | A method of reasoning in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the stated premises. | 28 | |
| 4802158474 | Inductive | A method of reasoning by which a rhetor collects a number of instances and forms a generalization that is meant to apply to all instances. | 29 | |
| 4802160015 | Cause/Effect | examination of the causes and/or effects of a situation or phenomenon | 30 | |
| 4802160881 | Description | A rhetorical mode based in the five senses. It aims to re-create, invent, or present something so that the reader can experience it. | 31 | |
| 4802160882 | Process Analysis | a pattern of writing or speaking which is characterized by it's explanation of how to do something or how something occurs. It presents a sequence of steps and shows how those steps lead to a particular result. | 32 | |
| 4802160883 | Narration | A rhetorical strategy that recounts a sequence of events, usually in chronological order. | 33 | |
| 4802161943 | Comparison/Contrast | A rhetorical strategy in which a writer examines similarities and/or differences between two people, places, ideas, or objects. | 34 | |
| 4802161944 | Exposition | A statement or type of composition intended to give information about (or and explanation of an issue, subject, method, or idea). | 35 | |
| 4802161945 | Persuasion | inducement to act by argument or reasoning or entreaty | 36 | |
| 4802163310 | Repetition | An instance of using a word, phrase, or clause more than once in a short passage-dwelling on a point. | 37 | |
| 4802163311 | Syllogism | A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion. | 38 | |
| 4802163312 | First Person | told from the narrator's point of view, using "I" | 39 | |
| 4802164154 | Second Person | told from the reader's point of view, using "you" | 40 | |
| 4802164155 | Third Person | Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the action/story | 41 | |
| 4802164156 | Subjective | influenced by personal opinion, biased | 42 | |
| 4802164798 | Objective | emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings or interpretation; without bias | 43 | |
| 4802164799 | Sentence Length | telegraphic sentence, short, medium, long and involved | 44 | |
| 4802164800 | Anaphora | The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses. | 45 | |
| 4802165961 | Antithesis | The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases. | 46 | |
| 4802165962 | Asyndeton | The omission of conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses (opposite of polysyndeton). | 47 | |
| 4802167572 | Polysyndeton | the use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural | 48 | |
| 4802167573 | Parallel Sentence | a sentence that shows similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words | 49 | |
| 4802168201 | Periodic Sentence | A long and frequently involved sentence, marked by suspended syntax; subordinate phrases and clauses followed by a main clause. | 50 | |
| 4802168202 | Loose Sentence | A sentence structure in which a main clause is followed by subordinate phrases and clauses. Contrast with periodic sentence. | 51 | |
| 4802169202 | Interrupted Sentence | An interrupting phrase is a word group (a statement, question, or exclamation) that interrupts the flow of a sentence and is usually set off by commas, dashes, or parentheses. Also called an interrupter, an insertion, or a mid-sentence interruption. | 52 | |
| 4802170162 | Balanced Sentence | A balanced sentence is a sentence that employs parallel structures of approximately the same length and importance. | 53 | |
| 4802170163 | Rhetorical Question | A question asked merely for effect with no answer expected. | 54 | |
| 4802170995 | Inversion | The predicate comes before the subject in a sentence; opposite of the normal word order. | 55 | |
| 4802170996 | Alliteration | The repetition of an initial consonant sounds. | 56 | |
| 4802170997 | Assonance | The identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words. | 57 | |
| 4802171982 | Consonance | the repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words | 58 |