AP language term Flashcards

4122642965	process	how it happens	0
4122642966	definition	define an idea and differentiates it from other ideas in the same class	1
4122983880	cause and affect	how happens and shows casual chain	2
4122983881	problem and solution	identifies and provides possible outcomes	3
4122983882	compare and contrast	explains how to or more items are alike and how they differ	4
4122983883	classification and division	identifies the croup or breaks a group into parts	5
4122983884	narrative	explain what happens first person, third person. Specific details to an event	6
4122983885	descriptive	using sensory details to explain	7
4122983886	argumentation	sharing points of view; not persuasion	8
4122983887	Tone	The attitude a writer takes towards a subject or cared for. Serious, humorous, sarcastic, ironic, satirical, tongue-in-cheek. A way of wording or expressing things that expresses an attitude: the tone may be angry, ironic	9
4122983888	mood	The overall motion of a text: sometimes the mood is reflected from and to other characters	10
4122983889	anaphora	deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive phrases paragraphs etc.	11
4122983890	asyndeton	figure of a mission and which normally occurring conjunctions (FANBOYS) are intentionally omitted in successive phrases or clauses. A string of words not separated by normally occruing conjunction	12
4122983891	alliteration	A stylistic device in which a number of words have the same first consonant sound occurring in a series	13
4122983892	assonance	Tomball large close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sound	14
4122983893	colloquial expression	words and phrases used in everyday speech but avoided in formal writing	15
4122983894	consonance	repetitive sounds produced by consonants with in a sentence or phrase	16
4122983895	connotation	an association that comes along with a particular word	17
4122983896	denotation	The exact meaning of a word	18
4122983897	diction	specific word choice used by the author to create or convey a typical mood, tone and atmosphere to their readers.	19
4122983898	dialect	speech pattern typically of a certain regional location, race, or social group that exhibits itself through unique word choice.	20
4122983899	euphemism	The use of a word or phrase that is less direct but that is also less distasteful or less offensive than another.	21
4122983900	euphonious	The use of words or phrases that are distinguished as having a wide range of noteworthy melody or loveliness in the sounds they create	22
4122983901	inversion	also known as anastrophe; A literary technique in which the normal order of words is reversed in order to achieve a particular affect.	23
4122983902	syntax	in grammar; The arrangement of words as elements in a sentence to show their relation ship	24
4122983903	antithesis	it's stab Lish is a clear, contrasting relationship between two ideas by joining them together.	25
4122983904	ellipses	The omission of a word or words	26
4122983905	inverted syntax	reversing the normal word order of a sentence	27
4122983906	parallel syntactic structures	using the same part of speech or synthetic structure in each element of a series, before and after coordinating conjunction	28
4122983907	periodic sentence structure	A sentence written so that the full meaning cannot be understood until the end.	29
4122983908	analogy	A comparison between two things in which the more complex is explain in terms of the more simple.	30
4122983909	anecdote	A short entertaining account of something happening	31
4122983910	metaphor	A figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another by being spoken of as if it were that thing	32
4122983911	simile	A figure of speech involving a comparison using like or as	33
4122983912	hyperbole	an extravagant exaggeration of fact	34
4122983913	oxymoron	A figure of speech in which contradictory terms or ideas are combined	35
4122983914	imagery	lively descriptions in which expresses the image of things upon the mind	36
4122983915	paradox	A statement which self contradicts but maybe true in fact	37
4122983916	parody	A literary composition which imitates the characteristic style of a serious work or writer and uses its features to treat trivial, nonsensical material in an attempt at humor or satire	38
4122983917	personification	A figure of speech in which an in animate object is given human attributes	39
4122983918	synecdoche	A figure of speech where part of something is used to represent the whole thing.	40
4122983919	allegory	A story in which people, places, and things are represented with general concepts or moral qualities	41
4122983920	allusion	A brief reference to a person, place, event, or passage in a work of literature or the Bible assume to be well known and recognized by the reader	42
4122983921	irony	A method of humorous or sarcastic expression in which the intended meaning of the word is the opposite of their usual meeting.	43
4122983922	verbal irony	when you say something and mean the exact opposite.	44
4122983923	dramatic irony	when the audience of a drama, play, movie know something the character doesn't and would be surprised to find out.	45
4122983924	situational irony	found in the plot or storyline of a book, story or movie.	46
4122983925	juxtaposition	placing things side-by-side for the purpose of comparison	47
4122983926	parable	A short story from which a lesson maybe drawn from	48
4122983927	persona	The fictional mask or narrator that tells a story.	49
4122983928	sarcasm	A cutting, often ironic remark intended to wound	50
4122983929	satire	A literary work in which vices	51
4122983930	symbol	something that stands for another thing.	52
4122983931	anticlimax	A sudden drop from the dignified or important in thought or expression to the commonplace travail, often for humorous effect	53
4122983932	argumentation	exploration of a problem by investigating all sides of it	54
4122983933	cause-and-effect	examination of the causes and or effects of a situation or phenomenon.	55
4122983934	chronological ordering	arrangement in the order in which things occur.	56
4122983935	classification as a means of ordering	arrangement of objects according to class.	57
4122983936	damning with faint praise	intentional use of a positive statement that has a negative implication	58
4122983937	deduction	A form of reasoning that begins with a generalization, that applies the generalization to a specific cause.	59
4122983938	digression	A temporary departure from the main subject in speaking or writing.	60
4122983939	expository writing	writing that explains or analyzes	61
4122983940	induction	form of reasoning which works from a body of fact to the formulation of a generalization. Opposite to deduction	62
4122983941	litotes	A figure in which an affirmative is expressed by a negation of the contrary	63
4122983942	order of importance	A method of organizing a paper according to the relative significance of the subtopics.	64
4122983943	persuasion	taking a single position for the purpose of getting others to accept that position	65
4122983944	Point of view	The way in which something is viewed or considered by a writer or speaker, in fiction. it is the relationship between the teller of a story and the characters in it.	66
4122983945	spatial ordering	Organization of information using spatial cues such as top to bottom	67
4122983946	thesis	The sentence or group of sentences that correctly expresses the authors opinion, purpose, meaning or proposition. clear and short	68
4122983947	understatement	deliberately representing something as much less than it really is	69
4122983948	rhetorical question	A question asked for rhetorical effect to emphasize a point	70
4122983949	ad homiem	attacking the character of the opponent; arguments limit themselves not to the issues but to the opposition itself	71
4122983950	bandwagon appeals	ad populum; trying to get everyone on board	72
4122983951	begging the question	circular logic ; happens when the writer presents an arguable point as a fact that supports the argument	73
4122983952	Faldo dilemma	The fallacy of logical argument which is committed when too few of the available alternatives are considered	74
4122983953	non sequitur arguments	don't follow a logical sequence	75
4122983954	post hoc fallacy	from Latin: occurs when the writer assumes that an incident that precedes another is the cause of the second incident	76
4122983955	opposing the straw man	A tactic used by a lot of writers because they find it easier to refute an oversimplified opposition	77
4122983956	tu quoque	you're another; fallacies avoid the real argument by making similar charges against the opponent	78
4122983957	ignoring the question	similar to presenting a red herring	79
4122983958	red herring	Little relevance to the argument at hand	80
4122983959	either or argument	reduced complex issues to black and white choices.	81
4122983960	stacking the deck	The writer favors their position by ignoring examples that disprove their point.	82
4122983961	equivocation	happens when the writer makes use of awards multiple meanings and changes the meanings in the middle of the argument without really telling the audience about the shift	83
4122983962	faults authority or appeal to authority	tactic used by many writers, especially in advertising; Authority in one field may know nothing of another	84
4122983963	fault analogies	leads to faulty conclusions	85
4122983964	hasty generalization	base an argument and insignificant evidence; jumping to conclusions.	86
4122983965	slippery slopes	suggest that one step well inevitably lead to more	87