AP Language LHS: Chapter 2: Close Reading Terminology Flashcards

7434001412	Alliteration	The repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of consecutive words or syllables.	0
7434015168	Allusion	An indirect reference, often to another text or an historic event.	1
7434020330	Anaphora	The repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses.	2
7434027153	Annotation	Explanatory or critical notes added to a text.	3
7434030023	Antimetabole	The repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast.	4
7434038753	Antithesis	Parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas.	5
7434046479	Archaic Diction	The use of words common to an earlier time period; antiquated language.	6
7434054369	Asyndeton	Leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses.	7
7434062364	Colloquialisms	An informal or conversational use of language.	8
7434070942	Complex Sentence	A sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause.	9
7434079972	Cumulative (loose) Sentence	An independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail.	10
7434090715	Declarative Sentence	A sentence that makes a statement.	11
7434105151	Diction	Word choice.	12
7434110402	Figures of Speech	An expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying a literal meaning.	13
7434118351	Hortative/Hortatory	Urging, or strongly encouraging.	14
7434125482	Hyperbole	Exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis.	15
7434135093	Imagery	Vivid use of language that evokes a reader's senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing)	16
7434144938	Imperative Sentence	A sentence that requests or commands.	17
7434149361	Inversion	A sentence in which the verb precedes the subject.	18
7434167727	Juxtaposition	Placement of two things side by side for emphasis.	19
7434176724	Metaphor	A figure of speech or trope through which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else, thus making an implicit comparison.	20
7434189790	Metonymy (Synecdoche)	Use of an aspect of something to represent the whole.	21
7434207441	Oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms.	22
7434217931	Paradox	A statement that seems contradictory but is actually true.	23
7434233652	Parallelism/Parallel Structure	The repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns.	24
7434238429	Periodic Sentence	A sentence that builds toward and ends with the main clause.	25
7434246546	Personification (Anthropomorphism)	Assigning lifelike characteristics to inanimate objects.	26
7434258874	Rhetorical Question	A question asked more to produce an effect than to summon an answer.	27
7434270974	Rhetoric	The study of effective, persuasive language use; according to Aristotle, use of the "available means of persuasion."	28
7434284299	Scheme	A pattern of words or sentence construction used for rhetorical effect.	29
7434291299	Simile	A figure of speech that uses "like" or "as" to compare two things.	30
7434297209	Style	The distinctive quality of speech or writing created by the selection and arrangement of words and figures of speech.	31
7434306068	Syntax	Sentence structure.	32
7434313085	Thesis	The central idea in a work to which all parts of the work refer.	33
7434322278	Thesis Statement	A statement of the central idea in a work, may be explicit or implicit.	34
7434330385	Tone	The speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience.	35
7434334329	Topic Sentence	A sentence, most often appearing at the beginning of a paragraph, that announces the paragraph's idea and often unites it with the work's thesis.	36
7434347383	Trope	Artful diction; the use of language in a nonliteral way; also called a figure of speech.	37
7434352990	Zeugma	A construction in which one word (usually a verb) modifies or governs-often in different, sometimes incongruent ways-two or more words in a sentence.	38
7434393792	Syllepsis	A figure of speech in which a word is applied to two others in different senses.	39
7434432147	Lightbulb!	The internal mechanism that lets you know that you have got the information!	40