AP Language Vocabulary Flashcards
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| 4174382735 | Rhetoric | Techniques and strategies used by an author in composing a particular passage | 0 | |
| 4174383621 | Mood | The feelings that a poem or prose arouses in the reader | 1 | |
| 4174384729 | Tone | The author's/speaker's feelings about the subject. (It elicits the psychological quality of the words.) | 2 | |
| 4174402863 | Diction | Word choice | 3 | |
| 4174402864 | Syntax | Word order | 4 | |
| 4174476295 | Onomatopoeia | Words that imitate the sounds they describe | 5 | |
| 4174476296 | Alliteration | Repetition of internal sounds in words and syllables | 6 | |
| 4174476884 | Rhythm | Combination of sounds/accents/phrases/pauses. Often used to arouse emotions. | 7 | |
| 4174488690 | Analogy | comparison of 2 things (sometimes of things that have several common characteristics) | 8 | |
| 4174494595 | Metonymy | Comparison by substituting another thing with a specific relationship (ex. abstract for concrete or vice versa, or cause for effect of vice versa, etc) | 9 | |
| 4174496107 | Synechdoche | A metonymy in which a part is made to represent a whole or vice versa | 10 | |
| 4174501056 | anthology | a published collection of poems or of other pieces of writing | 11 |