AP Language Tri 1 Vocab - Week 6 Flashcards

7664490787	narrative	A story that makes a point, illustrates a principle, or explains something. The event serves as evidence in support of your thesis.	0
7664490788	occasion	The time, place and circumstances in which the writing (or speaking) takes place	1
7664490789	oxymoron	Figure that binds together TWO words that are ordinarily contradictory; the figure conjures a new way of seeing or understanding	2
7664490790	paradox	Figure that employs an apparent contradiction which, nonetheless, evokes some measure of truth; a statement which seems at one level to be nonsensical because it moves against a normalcy.	3
7664490791	parallelism	Figure of balance identified by a similarity in the syntactical structure of a set of words in successive phrases, clauses, sentences; successive words, phrases, clauses with the same or very similar grammatical structure.	4
7664490792	passive voice	type of sentence or clause in which the subject receives the action of the verb	5
7664490793	pathos	appeal to emotion	6
7664490794	paradox	the application of human attributes or abilities to nonhuman entities	7
7664490795	primary source	an artifact, a document, diary, manuscript, autobiography, a recording, or any other source of information that was created at the time under study	8
7664490796	pronoun	A word that stands in place of a noun; skillful use helps to establish ethos	9