AP Language Multiple Choice Terms Flashcards

6693504566	Allegory	Lesson being taught through image	0
6693504567	Allusion	Reference to an outside piece of literature (bible or mythology reference)	1
6693504568	Analogy	Comparison	2
6693504569	Aphorism	Short witty saying with moral	3
6693504570	Colloquial/colloquialism	Informal	4
15042566391	Connotation	the implied or associative meaning of a word	5
6693504571	Denotation	Literal definition of something	6
6693504572	Didactic	Teaches a lesson	7
6693504573	Extended metaphor	Metaphor over many lines	8
6693504574	Figure of speech	Figurative language	9
6693504575	Genre	Type of literature (poem, novel, short story, bio/auto bio, drama, essay)	10
6693504576	Hyperbole	Exaggeration	11
6693504577	Inference/infer	a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.	12
6693504578	Irony/ironic	3 types: Verbal- say one thing mean another Situational- expect one thing to happen but something else does Dramatic- for drama, characters don't know something that audience does	13
6693504579	Metaphor	Comparison without using like or as	14
6693504580	Mood	Audience reaction	15
6693504581	Onomonapeia	Sound mimicking its meaning	16
6693504582	Paradox	Contradiction	17
6693504583	Parody	Mock up (making fun of something)	18
6693504584	Personification	Human qualities for an inanimate object	19
6693504585	Predicate adjective	Completes to be/linking verbs	20
6693504586	Prose	Literature	21
6693504587	Rhetoric	Style of speaking of writing	22
6693504588	Sarcasm	Satire, ironic way of writing	23
6693504589	Semantics	Study of words	24
6693504590	Subject complement	Subject completion	25
6693504591	Syllogism	Truth/premise	26
6693504592	Understatement	Type of satire, saying something is less important or exaggerated then it truly is	27
6693504593	Classification	Genre	28
6693504594	Inductive/deductive logic	Small to big idea, specific to general	29
6693504595	Antithesis	Opposite	30
6693504596	Begging the question	Answering a question with a question	31
6693504597	(Over)generalization	General statement that isn't always right	32
6693504598	Alliteration	Repetition of initial consenent	33
6693504599	Ambiguity	Not clear	34
6693504600	Antecedent	Before pronoun	35
6693504601	Apostrophe	Direct address without an answer	36
6693504602	Clause	a unit of grammatical organization said to consist of a subject and predicate	37
6693504603	Conceit	Comparison of two dissimilar things	38
6693504604	Generic conventions	Nonspecific	39
6693504605	Homily	Sermon that teaches a lesson	40
6693504606	invective	something nasty, rant	41
6693504607	loose/periodic sentence	run on sentence	42
6693504608	metonomy	use one phase over another that means the same	43
6693504609	oxymoron	contradiction	44
6693504610	pedantic	cocky, inflated opinion of knowledge	45
6693504611	predicate nominative	noun/pronoun completion	46
6693504612	repetition	emphasis effect for repeating something	47
6693504613	rhetorical modes	methods	48
6693504614	satire	poking fun at the faults and foibles of society in order to effect change	49
6693504615	subordinate clause	clause that depends on a main clause	50
6693504616	symbol/symbolism	symbol for something	51
6693504617	false dilemma	false syllogism	52
6693504618	chronological narration	in order	53
6693504619	ad hominem argument	against/attacking person	54
6693504620	damning with faint praise	backhanded compliment	55
6693504621	reasoning in a circle	going in a circle	56
6693504622	begging the question	answering the question with a question	57
6693504623	figurative language	figures of speech	58
6693504624	syntax	position of words in a sentence	59
6693504625	style or stylistic elements	sum of the choices a writer makes as to the selection of words	60
6693504626	rhetorical purpose of function	strategy of using words effectively in speaking and writing	61
6693504627	assertion	statement or declaration	62
6693504628	metaphor	implicit comparison not using like or as	63
6693504629	anecdote	personal story	64
6693504630	antithesis	contrast or opposition of thoughts (against thesis)	65
6693504631	euphemism	less direct or offensive word or phrase substituted for one that is indirect or offensive	66
6693504632	informal	personal rather than a formal, rhetoric style	67
6693504633	circumlocution	a round about, euphemistic way of saying something (not going to the point right away)	68
6693504634	parallel syntax	two or more phrases, clauses, or sentences having the same grammatical structure	69