ap language lit terms Flashcards

7233127466	abstract language	language that is not concrete (ex: love, honor)	0
7233128000	ad hominem	latin for "against the man." when the writer personally attacks his or her opponents instead of their arguments	1
7233128682	allegory	stories where events and characters have symbolic meaning	2
7233130057	alliteration	the repetition of initial identical sounds in words in close proximity	3
7233130531	allusion	an indirect reference to something (usually a literary text) with which the reader is supposed to be familiar	4
7233131540	ambiguity	more than one interpretation of something	5
7233132279	analogy	an analogy is a comparison to a directly parallel case	6
7233133084	anaphora	repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of consecutive sentences	7
7233134408	anecdote	a funny story	8
7233134790	annotation	marking up a text	9
7272580486	antithesis	a balancing of two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, or clauses	10
7272580879	assonance	vowel repetition	11
7272581402	asyndeton	commas used (with no conjunction) to separate a series of words	12
7272582231	authority	using experts to back up your argument	13
7272582862	backing	support or evidence for a claim in an argument	14
7272583110	balance	when a sentence has two halves of equal length and importance	15
7272583487	begging the question	circular reasoning	16
7272584264	causal relationship	one thing follows as a result from another	17
7272584923	chiasmus	arrangement of elements in the pattern X Y Y X	18
7272585498	common knowledge	something everybody agrees on	19
7321434940	concrete language	language that is not abstract	20
7321436480	connotation	implied meaning (not literal)	21
7321440238	consonance	alliteration with consonants	22
7321443699	conventional	following a tradition of writing	23
7321446130	cumulative	type of sentence with main idea at the beginning	24
7321448601	deconstruction	a literary theory based on instability of language	25
7321451108	diction	word choice	26
7321452609	didactic	teachy preachy	27
7321454492	dramatic irony	when the reader knows what the characters don't	28
7321457099	either-or reasoning	when you take an argument and reduce it to polar opposites	29
7369428284	elliptical	sentence where something in the second half is left out	30
7369429887	emotional appeal	pathos	31
7369433283	epigraph	quotation at the beginning of a literary work	32
7369434569	equivocation	when a writer uses the same term twice with more than one meaning	33
7369436779	ethical appeal	appeal based on the credibility of the person making the claim	34
7369442257	example	an individual instance that represents a general pattern	35
7369446251	explication	analyzing and interpreting a text	36
7369448603	exposition	gives background information	37
7369451104	false analogy	a comparison where the two cases are not parallel	38
7369453029	fiction	imaginative writing	39
7458341960	figurative language	language that uses figurative speech	40
7458346803	freight-train	a sentence with 3 or more independent clauses joined by conjunctions	41
7458353782	generalization	when you apply a specific example to a broader context	42
7458359850	hyperbole	exaggeration for effect	43
7458364036	image	a word picture relating to the senses	44
7458367974	imagery	describing with sensory details	45
7458383273	inversion	when you invert the normal word order	46
7458385493	irony	when the words don't mean what they say	47
7458389201	logic	appeal to reason	48
7458391698	metaphor	a comparison that does not use like or as	49
7524465473	mood	atmosphere created by the work	50
7524465474	moral	lesson of a story	51
7524467705	negative-positive	sentence that begins by stating what is not true, then ending by stating what is true	52
7524475921	non-sequitur	latin for "it does not follow". it is not logically sequenced	53
7524479450	objectivity	to be unbiased	54
7524479451	onomatopoeia	when the word sounds like the thing it's describing	55
7524499791	oversimplification	when a writer obscures or denies the complexity of the issues in an argument	56
7524502507	oxymoron	two opposite words next to each other	57
7524514586	paradox	something that appears false but is actually true	58
7524516981	parallelism	repetition in a pattern	59
7601454946	parody	humorous imitation of a work	60
7601458352	pathos	appeal to emotion	61
7601460943	periodic	sentence where main idea is at the end	62
7601466709	persona	fictional voice of the author	63
7601466710	personification	giving human characteristic to non-human things	64
7601472378	point of view	perspective from which the story is told. they are first person, third person limited, and third person omniscient	65
7601474602	polysyndeton	conjunction without commas	66
7601476677	post hoc, ergo propter hoc	latin for "after this, therefore because of this"	67
7601481199	red herring	when you raise an irrelevant issue to draw away from the real issues	68
7601488470	refutation	when you write something to oppose the argument	69
7671842878	repetition	word or phrase used two or more times in close proximity	70
7671846960	rhetoric	all the avialable means to persuade	71
7671850239	satire	a work that critizes human faults to try to make people better	72
7671853304	sarcasm	a type of verbal irony that is intended to hurt somebody	73
7671853305	simile	a comparison using 'like' or 'as'	74
7671865671	straw man	when you set up an argument to knock it down that would discredit the real argument you're going after through analogy	75
7671915093	style	all the choices a writer makes to express themselves	76
7675593517	symbol	something that represents something else	77
7675595287	synantic fluency	using a variety of sentence lengths	78
7675597486	syntactic permutation	using long complicated sentences	79
7755084779	theme	central idea of a work	80
7755084780	tone	author's attitude toward a subject	81
7755086169	tricolon	sentence with 3 parts of equal length and importance (usually independent clauses)	82
7755087935	unity	how cohesive a writing is	83
7755087936	verbal irony	when the words don't mean what they say	84
7755094129	metonymy	when you describe something using a symbol associated with that thing	85
7755095874	synecdoche	when you describe something with something that is a part of the thing you are describing	86
7761995792	zeugma	when you have one verb but 2 contrasting direct objects (figurative and literal meanings)	87