AP Language Terms and Vocabulary Flashcards

7038749643	Allegory	A work that functions on a symbolic level	0
7038749644	Allusion	A reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place, or thing	1
7038749645	Analogy	A comparison of two pairs that have the same relationship	2
7038749646	Diction	Word choice intended to convey a certain effect	3
7038749647	Dialect	A nonstandard subgroup of a language with its own vocabulary and grammatical features	4
7038749648	Didactic	Describes writing whose purpose is to instruct or teach	5
7038749649	Epigraph	A quotation at the beginning of a work that hints at its theme	6
7038749650	Epitaph	An inscription on a tombstone or burial place	7
7038749651	Epithet	A term used to point out a characteristic of a person	8
7038749652	Eulogy	A formal speech praising a person who has died	9
7038749653	Exposition	Part of a story which describes the background and setting and introduces the main character	10
7038749654	Genre	Term used to classify literary and informational works	11
7038749655	Hyperbole	Deliberate, extravagant exaggeration	12
7038749656	Imagery	Descriptive words used to represent persons, objects, actions, feelings, and ideas by appealing to the senses	13
7038749657	Verbal irony	When a speaker or narrator says one thing while meaning the opposite	14
7038749658	Situational irony	When a situation turns out differently from what one would normally expect	15
7038755342	Dramatic irony	When the audience has understanding or knowledge that the speaker does not	16
7038756980	Motif	The repetition or variations of an image or ideas in a work used to develop theme or characters	17
7038758509	Paradox	When elements of a statement contradict each other yet reveal a hidden truth	18
7038759689	Paraphrase	The restatement of a text in different words	19
7038761098	Pedantic	Describes writing that borders on lecturing	20
7038762753	Persona	The role or façade that a character assumes	21
7038765080	Primary source	The original source of resource information	22
7038767553	Pun	A play on words that are identical or similar in sounds but have sharply diverse meanings	23
7038769686	Rhetoric	The language of a written work and its style	24
7038770694	Sarcasm	The use of verbal irony in which the speaker appears to be praising something but is actually insulting it	25
7038774642	Satire	A mode of writing based on ridicule that criticizes the foibles and follies of society without offering a solution	26
7038777360	Understatement	Irony that deliberately represents something as being much less than it really is	27
7038778843	Subjective	Describes a personal perspective on a topic	28
7038780161	Symbol	Any object, person, place, or action that has both a meaning in itself and represents something larger than itself	29
7038781928	Synthesis	When the writer or speaker uses multiple sources to argue a point of view on a given issue	30
7038782796	Theme	The central message of literary work	31
7038784175	Tone	The writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject, character, or audience	32
7038786271	Tragedy	A work in which the protagonist, a person of high degree, is engaged in a significant struggle which ends in ruin or destruction	33
7038788033	Compound	A sentence that contains two independent clauses joined by a coordinating junction or semicolon	34
7038788762	Complex	A sentence that contains an independent clause and one or more subordinate clauses	35
7038790260	Compound-complex	A sentence that contains two or more independent clauses and one or more subordinate clauses	36
7038792769	Cumulative	A sentence that makes complete sense if brought to a close before the actual ending	37
7038800161	Periodic	A sentence that makes sense fully only when the end of the sentence is reached	38
7038802043	Balanced	A sentence in which the clauses balance each other because of their likeness of structure	39
7038803446	Inverted	A sentence that is constructed so that the predicate comes before the subject	40