AP Language Terms Flashcards
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| 3891511447 | ad hominem argument (definition) | an argument that appeals to emotion rather than reason, to feeling rather than intellect | 0 | |
| 3891519815 | allegory (definition) | the device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning | 1 | |
| 3891526008 | alliteration (definition) | the repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds | 2 | |
| 3891529283 | allusion (definition) | a direct or indirect reference to something that is presumably commonly known such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art | 3 | |
| 3891534045 | ambiguity (definition) | the multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage also includes the a sense of uncertainty or inexactness that a work presents | 4 | |
| 3891540276 | anecdote (definition) | a short narrative account of an amusing, unusual, revealing, or interesting event | 5 | |
| 3891548558 | analogy (definition) | a similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. | 6 | |
| 3891573876 | antecedent (definition) | the word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. a noun | 7 | |
| 3891575330 | antithesis (definition) | a figure of speech involving a seeming contradiction of ideas, words, clauses, or sentences within a balanced grammatical structure. | 8 | |
| 3891585063 | aphorism (definition) | a terse statement of known authorship that expresses a general truth or moral principle. | 9 | |
| 3891590495 | apostrophe (definition) | a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction such as liberty or love, or an inanimate object. | 10 | |
| 3891594132 | atmosphere (definition) | the emotional mood created by the entirety of a little work, established partly by setting and partly by the author's choice of objects that are described | 11 | |
| 3891599223 | caricature (definition) | a representation, especially pictorial or literary in which the subjects distinctive features or peculiarities are deliberately exaggerated to produce a comic or grotesque effect | 12 | |
| 3891600330 | chiasmus (definition) | a figure of speech based on the inverted parallelism. It is a rhetorical figure in which two clauses are related to each other through a reversal of terms. (ABBA) | 13 | |
| 3891605482 | clause (definition) | a grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. an independent or main clause expresses a complete thought and can stand alone. a dependent or subordinate clause cannot stand alone as a sentence and must be accompanied by an independent clause | 14 | |
| 3891613139 | colloquialism (definition) | slang or informality in speech or writing | 15 | |
| 3891615722 | conceit (definition) | a fanciful expression usually in the form of an extended metaphor or a surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects. | 16 | |
| 3891618412 | connotation (definition) | the nonliteral associative meaning of word; the implied suggested meaning. | 17 | |
| 3891621827 | denotation (definition) | the strict literal dictionary definition of the word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color. | 18 | |
| 3891625457 | diction (definition) | related to style ______ refers to the writers word choices especially with regard to their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness | 19 | |
| 3914046010 | didactic(definition) | means instructive. __________ works have the primary aim of teaching or instructing, especially teaching moral or ethical principles. | 20 |