AP Language Terms Flashcards

4981045355	allegory	a narrative in which the characters, behavior, and even the setting demonstrates multiple levels of meaning and significance. often a universal symbol or personifed abstraction	0
4981045356	alliteration	the sequential repetition of a similar initial sound, usually applied to consonants, usually in closely proximate stressed syllables	1
4981045357	allusion	a literary, historical, religious, or mythological reference in a literary work	2
4981045358	antithesis	the juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, grammatical structure, or ideas	3
4981045359	anaphora	the regular repetition of the same words or phrases at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses	4
4981045360	aphorism	a concise statement designed to make a point or illustrate a commonly held belief	5
4981045361	appeals to...authority, emotion, logic	rhetorical arguments in which the speaker claims to be an authority or expert in a field, or attempts to play upon the emotions	6
4981045362	attitude	the sense expressed by the tone of voice or the mood of a piece of writing; the author's feelings toward his/her subject, characters, events, or theme, might even be his/her feelings for the reader	7
4981045363	asyndeton	a syntactical structure in which conjunctions are omitted in a series, usually producing a more rapid prose	8
4981045364	begging the question	an argumentative ploy where the arguer sidesteps the question or the conflict, evades or ignores the real question	9
4981045365	canon	that which has been accepted as authentic	10
4981045366	assonance	the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually in successive or proximate words	11
4981045367	chiasmus	a figure of speech and generally a synatical structure wherein the order of the terms in the first half of a parallel clause is reversed in the second	12
4981045368	apostrophe	an address or innovation to something inanimate	13
4981045369	colloquial	a term identifying the diction of common, ordinary folks, especially in a specific region or area	14
4981045370	conceit	a comparison of 2 unlikely things that is drawn out within a piece of literature, in particular and extended metaphor within a poem	15
4981045371	connotation	the implied, suggested, or underlying meaning of a word or phrase	16
4981045372	consonance	the repetition of 2 or more consonants with a change in intervening vowels	17
4981045373	critique	an assessment or analysis of something, such as a passage for writing, for determining what it is, what it's limitations are, and how it conforms to the standard of a genre	18
4981045374	dialect	the language and speech idiosyncrasies of a specific area, region, or group	19
4981045375	diction	the specific word choice an author uses to persuade or convey tone, purpose, or effect	20
4981045376	deductive reasoning	the method of argument in which specific statements and conclusions are drawn from general principles: movement from the general to specific	21
4981045377	didactic	writing or speech that has an instructive purpose, or a lesson; often associated with a dry, pompous, presentation	22
4981045378	elegy	a poem or prose that laments, or mediates upon the death of a person	23
4981045379	epistrophe	in rhetoric, the repetition of a phrase at the end of successive sentences	24
4981045380	epitaph	writing in praise of a dead person, most often inscribed upon a headstone	25
4981045381	ethos	in rhetoric, the appeal of a text to the credibility and character of the speaker, writer, or narrator	26
5053130572	eulogy	a speech or written passage in praise of a person; an oration in honor of a deceased	27
5053130573	euphemism	an indirect, kinder, or less harsh or hurtful way of expressing unpleasant information	28
5053130574	exposition	the interpretation or analysis of a text. also the opening section of a narrative or dramatic structure in which characters, setting, theme, and conflict can be revealed	29
5053130575	extended metaphor	a series of comparisons within a piece of writing. if they are consistently one concept, this is also known as conceit	30
5053130576	figurative language	language with levels of meaning expressed through figures of speech such as personification, metaphor, litote, etc	31
5053130577	flashback	an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronology of the narration	32
5053130578	genre	a type or class of literature, such as epic, narrative, poetry, biography, history	33
5053130579	homily	a sermon, but more contemporary uses include any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual life	34
5071801964	hyperbole	overstatement characterized by exaggerated language, usually to make a point or draw attention	35
5071801965	imagery	any sensory detail or evocation in a work to evoke a feeling, to call to mind an idea, or to describe an object. involved any or all of the 5 senses.	36
5071801966	inductive reasoning	the method of reasoning or argument in which general statements and conclusions are drawn from specific principles: movement from specific to general	37
5071801967	inference	a conclusion or proposition arrived at by considering facts, observations, or some other specific data. looking at the clues, learning the facts	38
5071801968	irony	the contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant. the intended meaning is often the opposite of what is stated, often suggesting light sarcasm.	39
5071801969	isocolon	parallel structure in which the parallel elements are similar not only in grammatical structure, but also in length	40
5071801970	jargon	specialized or technical language of trade, profession, or similar group	41
5623263832	onomatopoeia	a word capturing or approximately the sound of what is described. the purpose of these words is to make a passage more effective for the reader/listener.	42
5623263833	oxymoron	a figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements	43
5623263834	parallelism (parallel structure)	the use of similar forms in writing for nouns, verbs, phrases, or thoughts. in prose, recurrent syntactical similarity where several parts of a sentence or several sentences are expressed alike to show that their ideas are equal in importance.	44
5623263835	paradox	a statement that seems contradictory but may be true	45
5623263836	pathos	that element in literature that stimulates pity or sorrow. in argument or persuasion it tends to be the evocation of pity	46
5623263837	litote	a figure of speech that emphasizes its subject by conscious understatement	47
5623263838	loose sentence	a long sentence that starts with its main clause, which is followed by several dependent clauses and modifying phrases.	48
5623263839	metonymy	a figure of speech in which an attribute of commonly associated feature is used to name or designate something	49
5623331656	mood	a feeling or ambience resulting from the tone of a piece as well as the writer/narrators attitude and POV. it's is a "feeling" that established the atmosphere in a work of literature or other discourse	50
5623331657	narrative	a mode of discourse that tells a story of some sort and it is based on sequences of connected events, usually presented in a straight forward chronological frame work	51
5623331658	periodic sentence	a long sentence in which the main cause is. it completed until the end	52
5623331659	personification	treating an abstraction or nonhuman object as if it were a person by endowing it with human features or qualities	53