AP Language Vocab Flashcards
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| 6745718967 | Alliteration | Repeated sounds at the beginning of words | 0 | |
| 6745720278 | Allusion | Reference to history, literature or well-known events | 1 | |
| 6745722631 | Antecedent | Word a pronoun refers to | 2 | |
| 6745723335 | Anaphora | Repetition at the beginning of a sentence/clause | 3 | |
| 6745724868 | Analogy | Comparison/"catch-all" term | 4 | |
| 6745727705 | Ambiguity | Multiple meanings to a word or phrase | 5 | |
| 6745730007 | Connotation | Implied meaning | 6 | |
| 6745730665 | Diction | Words that reflect tone/"really-loaded words" | 7 | |
| 6745732881 | Euphemism | Less offensive word/phrase | 8 | |
| 6745734119 | Figurative Language | Words/phrases with a hidden meaning | 9 | |
| 6745735074 | Hyperbole | Exaggeration | 10 | |
| 6745736250 | Irony | Sarcasm/Event you don't expect | 11 | |
| 6745737745 | Metaphor | Implied comparison | 12 | |
| 6745739286 | Metonymy | When a noun represents a group | 13 | |
| 6745740354 | Mood | Emotional effect on the reader | 14 | |
| 6745741309 | Onomatopoeia | When words imitate sounds | 15 | |
| 6745743234 | Oxymoron | 2 Side-by-Side words that contradict (pretty ugly) | 16 | |
| 6745744545 | Paradox | Contradiction | 17 | |
| 6745745952 | Parallelism | the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc. | 18 | |
| 6745746648 | Personification | Describing non-human things with human qualities. | 19 | |
| 6745748947 | Rhetoric | The study of how effective communication is | 20 | |
| 6745749666 | Satire | Ridicules human nature/society | 21 | |
| 6745750808 | Symbol | Object representing itself or something else | 22 | |
| 6745751866 | Tone | Authors Attitude | 23 | |
| 6745752513 | Trope | Common element in literature (damsel in distress) | 24 | |
| 6745754156 | Litotes | Understatement | 25 | |
| 6745755030 | Undertone | Subtle tone in literature | 26 | |
| 6745756153 | Syntax | Sentence structure (Ex: simple, compound, complex, compound/complex) | 27 | |
| 6745756635 | Imagery | Descriptive language appealing to the senses. | 28 |