AP English Language Flashcards

6772654605	Qualification/Qualify	A limitation placed on a position/argument so as to avoid an absolute claim	0
6772704479	Empirical Data	Information acquired by observation or experimentation; its concrete and measurable; typically serves as good support for a claim	1
6772725828	Venacular	the language spoken by people who live in a particular locality	2
6772739120	Colloquial/Colloquialism	the use of slang or informalities in speech or writing which gives a work a conversational familiar tone	3
6772763326	Euphemism	a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for an unpleasant term	4
6772788382	Antithisis	balancing or contrasting one word or idea against another and usually in the same sentance	5
6772800542	Bias	prejudice or predisposition toward one side of a subject/issue	6
6772818389	Satire	a work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule	7
6772832507	Parody	a work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect or ridicule	8
6772854034	Digression	the act of departing from the main subject in speech or writing to discuss an apparently related topic	9
6773276411	Understatement	lack of emphisis in a statement or point; restraint in language often used for ironic effect	10
6773309457	paradox/paradoxical	a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity	11
6773364181	Antecedent	the word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun; anything that comes before something else	12
6773384190	Didactic	a term describing works that have the primary aim of teaching or instructing (sometimes too much), especially the teaching of moral or ethical principles	13
6773414164	Enumerate	to mention separately as if in one counting; name one by one; specify, as in a list	14
6773421021	Conjecture	to form an opinion (to conclude or suppose some ideas) based on insufficient or unreliable evidence; to guess.	15
6773432905	Generalist	a person who is (or aims to be) knowledgeable in many fields of a study, as opposed to the specialist	16
6773454245	Treatise	a formal work on a particular subject, especially one that details systematically with its principles and conclusions; tends to be longer and more detailed than an essay	17
6803574456	expose	bringing a scandal, crime, ect. to public notice	18
6803593902	generalize/generalization	to infer or form a conclusion/opinion from available information	19
6803615374	exposition/expository	writing or speech intended to convey information or to explain	20
6803632692	incite	to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action	21
6803652042	apology	a defense, excuse, or justification in speech or writing, as for a belief, idea, cause, doctrine, ect.	22
6803696107	diatribe	a speech or piece of writing that features a bitter or violent criticism or attack	23
6803717301	ephemeral	lasting a very short time; short-lived	24
6803724200	resigned/resignation	an accepting unresisting attitude; passive compliance	25
6804244626	introspection	observation/examination of one's own mental and emotional state, mental processes, ect.; the act of looking inside one's self	26
6804300466	phenominon	a fact, occurrence, or circumstance that is observed or observable	27
6804311245	betray	to reveal, show, disclose	28
6804322922	objective	based on facts; unbiased; not influenced by personal feelings, interpretation, or prejudice	29
6804353660	subjective	based on an individual's thinking, feelings, interpretation, prejudice, ect..; not objective	30
6804396571	dispassionate	devoid of personal feeling or bias; impartial; calm	31
6804424545	disparage	to speak contemptuously of; to belittle; to damage the reputation of	32
6804438102	validate/substinate	to confirm	33
6804442914	erudite	characterized by great knowledge; learned or scholarly	34
6804467501	pragmatic/pragmatism	of or relating to a practical point of view or practical considerationdd	35
6804483519	exhort/exhortation	to urge, advise, or caution earnestly	36
6804499018	syllogism (deductive reasoning)	starting with a universally accepted general assumption/truth and then observing a more specific example in light of that assumption/truth in order to arrive at some conclusion about that specific example	37
6804538283	inductive reasoning	compiling a collection of examples or observations and then arriving at a general conclusion based on criteria shared by those examples/observations	38
6804562600	analogy	a similarity or comparison between two things or the relationship between them; compares to similar thins unlike a metahor	39
6804585988	denotation	the literal dictionary definition of a word; devoid of any emotion or attitude	40
6804596911	connotation	the non literal, associative meaning of a word, the implied, suggested meaning	41
6804614080	oxymoron	the joining of apparently contradictory words to suggest a paradox	42
6804625231	periodic sentence	a sentence in which the base clause is placed at the end of the sentence and is preceded by introductory dependent clauses and phrases	43
6804653259	irony	the contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant	44
6804660833	aphorism	a terse statement that expresses a general truth or moral principle	45
6804670952	pedantic	excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning	46
6804682179	anaphora	the repetition of words at the beginning of consecutive clauses	47
6804693700	archaic diction	the use of words common to an earlier time period	48
6804699337	allegory	the device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning	49