AP Language Terms Flashcards

7675651668	Diction	Word Choice	0
7675651669	Imagery	Drawing a word picture	1
7675651670	Tone	The way an author seems to want the audience to feel--use adjectives	2
7675651671	Figurative Language	Not literal	3
7675653717	Shift	A change	4
7675653718	Detail	Description, examples, specific elements	5
7675653719	Syntax	Sentence construction	6
7675653720	Connotation	Nuanced/hidden message words carry	7
7675656167	Point of View	Perspective	8
7675656168	Pacing	Rate at which author moves the plot and narrative	9
8539173612	Aphorism	Short, often cliche piece of advice	10
8539175067	Analogy	A comparison between two sets	11
8539176483	Anaphora	Repeated words at the beginning of successive clauses or phrases	12
8539176485	Anecdote	A short, illustrative story	13
8539225789	Antithesis	A statement and its opposite	14
8539268444	Asyndeton	A list of things with commas between them	15
8539336626	Cacophony	Harsh sounding words or noise	16
8563853168	Chiasmus	A phrase or clause and its reverse immediately afterwards	17
8563911912	Colloquialism	Ordinary, informal speech	18
8563949719	Conceit	A drawn-out comparison between two things that wouldn't normally be compared	19
8564025091	Cumulative sentence	A sentence that begins with a simple sentence and adds elaborative elements	20
8564041991	Denotation	The literal, dictionary definition of a word	21
8564126030	Didactic	An adjective for a text that is moralistic in its nature	22
8694889039	Ellipsis	The three dots that shorten a quotation	23
8694889587	Epiphany	A sudden revelation	24
8694890892	Ethos	Credibility and trustworthiness	25
8694890893	Euphemism	A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing	26
8694896642	Genre	A type/category	27
8694897048	Homily	A short sermon	28
8694897757	Hyperbole	Exaggeration or overstatement	29
8694898775	Invective	Rude, harsh, or insulting language	30
8694900753	Dramatic irony	When the audience knows something that the characters do not	31
8694901815	Situational irony	Normal, daily irony	32
8694903493	Satire	A written form where the author mocks society in order to make a change	33
8694904090	Verbal irony	Sarcasm	34
8902945325	Litotes	An understatement with a negative construction	35
8902945326	Metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	36
8902945327	Metonymy	When you substitute a word for something that is related	37
8902945328	Motif	A recurring theme, subject or idea	38
8902947472	Non sequitur	A statement or sentence that does not logically follow the previous ones	39
8902947473	Onomatopoeia	A word that represents a sound	40
8902947474	Oxymoron	Two words in a term that are opposites	41
8902947475	Parallelism	Sentence construction where all parts of the sentence are grammatically identical	42
8902947476	Parody	A type of satire that imitates something	43
8902948211	Paradox	an apparently contradictory statement that actually contains some truth	44
8902948212	Pedantic	Dull, dry, overly detailed	45
8953443048	Periodic Sentence	A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end.	46
8953455561	Polysyndeton	A series of conjunctions	47
8953459710	Simile	A comparison with the use of like or as	48
8978552108	Syllepsis/Zuegma	Using a single verb to defer to two different objects in a way that gives it multiple meaning	49
8978565926	Syllogism	Deductive reasoning with a logical progression consisting of premises and a conclusion	50
8978667576	Symbol	NOT a metaphor	51
8978699359	Synecdoche	A subset of metonymy in which a part is used for the whole	52
8978735577	Style	A way of writing that is unique and recognizable	53
8978750391	Tautology	Repetition of an idea using different words	54
8978755082	Understatement	Diminishes a concept or idea, often used for comedic effect	55