AP Language Fall Final Flashcards
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| 5664612874 | Aristotelian Triangle | a triangle that includes: Speaker, Audience, Text/Subject, Tone, and Purpose |  | 0 |
| 5664641954 | rhetoric | tools an author uses to persuade the audience | 1 | |
| 5664650408 | rhetorical tools | diction, metaphor, euphemism (downplaying, sugarcoating), ethos, pathos, logos, juxtapositions, imagery, allusions, listing, parallelism, etc. | 2 | |
| 5664662645 | Nuance | a slight difference | 3 | |
| 5664667116 | Satire | to critique/ridicule in order to reform society | 4 | |
| 5664709929 | Irony | a figure of speech in which the words expressed carry the opposite meaning | 5 | |
| 5664715751 | Verbal Irony | when something said is the opposite of what is meant | 6 | |
| 5664718610 | Situational | when the appearance of things is opposite to the reality |  | 7 |
| 5664721930 | Dramatic | when what a character says/thinks is not what the reader/audience knows to be true (ex. when a girl in a horror movie goes into the woods and we know, as the audience, that she will die) |  | 8 |
| 5664735050 | Hyperbole | a figure of speech that employs exaggeration in order to make the actual meaning clearer | 9 | |
| 5664749249 | Understatement | what is actually meant is expressed by lessening the full significance of the moment | 10 | |
| 5664762328 | Parody | imitation of the style of an author or work for comic effect and ridicule | 11 | |
| 5664768551 | Sarcasm | a bitter or cutting speech, intended to hurt a person's feelings | 12 | |
| 5664781687 | vehemently | passionately | 13 | |
| 5664783927 | threshold | an entrance/doorway | 14 | |
| 5664786135 | agency | holding the belief that you can play your own role in your own destiny (controlling the controllable) | 15 | |
| 5664790474 | verisimilitude | similar to the truth (satirical term) | 16 | |
| 5664794326 | euphemism | downplaying/sugarcoating | 17 | |
| 5664796655 | disheveled/unkempt | looking like a hot mess | 18 | |
| 5664800103 | effusive | gushing with emotions/too many feelings | 19 | |
| 5664802374 | exasperated | vexed/irritated | 20 | |
| 5664804534 | to feign | to fake | 21 | |
| 5664806825 | facade | face you make to show the world; an outward appearance that masks how you truly feel | 22 | |
| 5664816865 | colloquial language | informal language, casual | 23 | |
| 5664818509 | jargon | language specific to a certain profession | 24 | |
| 5664821127 | pragmatic | practical | 25 | |
| 5664824155 | cynical | a negative world view | 26 | |
| 5664825130 | irreverent | disrespectful | 27 |