AP Language Glossary Flashcards

6521631685	Active Voice	The subject of the sentence perform the action. This is a more direct and perferred style of writing in most cases	0
6521645374	Ad Hominem Argument	It refer to an argument that attacks the opposing speaker or another person rather than addressing the issue at hand	1
6521665299	Allitertion	The repetition of sounds, especially initial consonants in two or more neighboring words	2
6521675561	Allusion	A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place or work of art.	3
6521690116	Analogy	A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them.	4
6521697965	Anecdote	A short narrative detailing particulars of an interesting episode or event. The term most frequently refers to an incident in the life of a person.	5
6521711688	Assertion	The thesis, claim, or proposition that a writer puts forward in an argument	6
6521722457	Audience	The intended readership for a piece of writing.	7
6521737464	Bathos	A false or forced emotion that is often humorous	8
6521743707	Claim	The thesis, assertion or proposition put forth in an argument	9
6521750892	Cliche	An expression that has become ineffective through overuse	10
6521758755	Diction	Word choice, particularly an element of style. Different types of words have significant effects on meaning.	11
6521771291	Colloquial	Ordinary or familiar type of conversation	12
6521783782	Connotation	Rather than the dictionary definition of he words, this is the association suggested by a word.	13
6521791813	Denotation	The literal, explicit meaning of a word, without its connotations	14
6521799534	Jargon	The diction used by a group which practices a similar profession or activity	15
6521810252	Vernacular	1. Language or dialect of a particular country 2. Language or or dialect of a regional clan 3. Plain everyday speech	16
6521848527	Ethos	The speaker , their trustworthiness and the values of the speaker and the argument	17
6521857822	Evidence	The data on which a judgement or argument is based on or by which proof or probability is established	18
6521871950	Exigence	An issue, problem or situation that causes prompts someone to write or speak	19
6521881858	Euphemism	A more agreeable or less offensive substitute for generally unpleasant words or concepts	20
6521892446	Hyperbole	Exaggeration	21
6521895871	Idiom	A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally	22
6521903865	Imagery	Word or words that create a picture in the reader's mind; usually involving the five senses	23
6521912161	Irony	What the opposite of what you expect to to happen does	24
6521921679	Verbal Irony	When you say something and mean the opposite/ something different	25
6521926919	Dramatic Irony	When the audience of a drama, play, movie etc. knows something that the character doesn't and would be surprised to find out	26
6521943402	Situational Irony	Found in the plot of a book, story, or movie.	27
6521956144	Juxtaposition	Placing things side by side for the purpose of comparison	28
6521959424	Logical Fallacy	A fallacy is an attractive but unreliable piece of reasoning	29
6521968410	Appeal to authority	The claim that because somebody famous supports an idea, the idea must be right	30
6521986564	Appeal to the bandwagon	The claim, as evidence for an idea, that many people believe it, or be used to believe it, or do it	31
6521999562	Appeal to emotion	An attempt to replace a logical argument with an appeal to the audience's emotions	32
6522011383	Bad Analogy	Claiming that two situations are highly similar, when they aren't	33
6522023555	Cliche thinking	Using as evidence a well-known saying, as if it is proven, or as if I it has no exceptions	34
6522041775	False Cause	Assuming that because two things happened, the first one caused the second one	35
6522052879	Hasty generalization	Generalization based on too little or unrepresentative data	36
6522064202	Red Herring	A fallacy in which an irrelevant topic is presented in order to divert attention from the original issue	37
6522075314	Logos	The use of reason as a controlling principal in an argument	38
6522083897	Oxymoron	When apparently contradictory terms are grouped together and suggests a paradox	39
6522099239	Parallelism	Sentence construction which places equal grammatical constructions near each other, or repeats identical grammatical patterns	40
6522118718	Anaphora	One of the devices of repetition, in which the same expression is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences	41
6522148269	Chiasmus	When the same words are used twice in succession, but the second time, the order of the word is reversed	42
6522166985	Antithesis	Two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, or clauses or even ideas, with parallel structure	43
6522181570	Zuegma	When a single word governs or modifies two or more other words, and the meaning of the first word must change for each of the other words it governs or modifies	44
6522199101	Parody	An effort to ridicule or make fun of a literary work or an author by writing an imitation of the authors work or style	45
6522213709	Pathos	A sympathetic feeling of pity or compassion evoked by an artistic work	46
6522229433	Pun	A play on words	47
6522232610	Sarcasm		48