AP **** Flashcards

4236622570	Rhetoric	The art of effectively using language in speech or writing	0
4236624995	Rhetorical Question	A question asked merely for effect with no answer expected	1
4236626206	Tone	Style or manner of expression in speaking writing, the author's attitude towards the subject	2
4236628931	Mood	feeling a piece of literature brings out in the reader	3
4236629665	Diction	Choice of words especially with regards to correctness, clearness, and effectiveness	4
4236633394	Syntax	The way in which words are put together to for phrases, clauses, or sentences	5
4236634714	Irony	The use of words to express something other than that and especially the opposite of the literal meaning	6
4236645376	simile	a comparison between two unlike things which uses like or as	7
4236646614	paradox	a situation which contradicts itself	8
4236647545	Alliteration	The repetition of the same consonant sounds or of different vowel sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables	9
4236669507	onomatopoeia	The formation or use of words such as buzz or murmurer that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to	10
4236698378	metaphorical	a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another thus making an implicit comparison	11
4236738334	antecedent	going before	12
4236739612	argumentation	the presentation and elaboration of an argument or arguments	13
4236740231	persuation	to induce to undertake a course of action or embrace a point of view by means of argument, reasoning, or entreaty	14
4236743846	oxymoron	A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined	15
4236747395	Personification	a figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as possessing human form	16
4236749110	euphemism	the act or example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive	17
4236754942	metonymy	a figure if speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated	18
4236757971	allegory	a literary dramatic or pictorial device in which characters and events stand for abstract ideas, principles, or forces, so that the literal sense has or suggests a parallel, deeper symbolic sense	19
4236764245	anecdote	brief story	20
4236765290	satiric	a story that uses literary ridicules and humor to make a point	21
4236766181	hyperbole	extravagant exaggeration	22
4236767654	understatement	statement that is represented as less than the case	23
4236769004	ad hominem	in addition to	24
4236770164	begging the question	to assume the truth of the point of the question.	25
4236867317	Non sequitr	statement or a conclusion that does not logically follow from previous statements	26
4236869786	syllogism	deductive argument consisting of two premises and a conclusion	27
4236871723	allusion	refer indirectly	28
4236872299	assonance	the repition of identical or similar vowel sounds, especially in stressed syllables with changes in the intervening consonants as the phrase "tilting at windmills	29
4236876452	consonance	the repetition of consonants or of a consonant pattern	30
4236877977	colloquial	informal conversational characteristic of ordinary conversation	31
4236879051	apostrophe	a direct address either to an absent person or to an abstracts or nonhuman entity	32
4236880066	antithesis	opposition and contrast of ideas	33
4236883867	inferred	concluded from facts or reasoning	34
4236887089	refute	to prove false as in an option	35