AP Language Flashcards

7461744025	Allegory	The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning.	0
7461744026	Allusion	A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art.	1
7461744027	Antecedent	The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.	2
7461744028	Aphorism	A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or moral principle	3
7461744029	Apostrophe	A girl gure of speech wherein the speaker speaks directly to something nonhuman. Such as liberty or love	4
7461744030	Clause	A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb.	5
7461744031	Diction	related to style, refers to the writer's word choices	6
7461744032	Euphemism	From the Greek for "good speech".... are a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept	7
7461744033	Hyperbole	A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement.	8
7461744034	inference/infer	to draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented	9
7461744035	Metaphor	A figure of speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things or the substitution of one for the other suggesting some similarity	10
7461744036	Metonymy	A term from the Greek meaning "changed label" or "substitute name" a figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it	11
7461744037	Parody	A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule	12
7461744038	Personification	A figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions	13
7461744039	Prose	One of the major divisions of genre including all the forms of fiction and non-fiction	14
7461744040	rhetorical question	A question asked merely for effect with no answer expected.	15
7461744041	Satire	A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule	16
7461744042	Simile	A comparison using "like" or "as" "if"	17
7461744043	Syllogism	From the Greek for "reckoning together" a syllogism is a deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion	18
7461744044	symbol/symbolism	Generally, anything that represents itself and stands for something else.	19
7461744045	Syntax	The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, sentences.	20
7461744046	Theme	The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life	21
7461744047	Understatement	The ironic minimizing of fact, presents something as less significant than it is.	22