AP Vocabulary Flashcards

7854992749	imagery	language that appeals to the senses	0
7854994485	diction	A writer's or speaker's choice of words	1
7854996614	syntax	the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences	2
7854998927	figure of speech	language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense	3
7855003830	apostrophe	address to an absent or imaginary person	4
7855003903	allusion	A reference to another work of literature, person, or event	5
7855005929	epithet	A descriptive name or phrase used to characterize someone or something	6
7855011428	euphemism	An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant	7
7855014802	parallelism	Phrases or sentences of a similar construction/meaning placed side by side, balancing each other	8
7855017625	connotation	All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests	9
7855017626	logos	Appeal to logic	10
7855019893	pathos	Appeal to emotion	11
7855021580	ethos	credibility	12
7855023496	antithesis	the direct opposite, a sharp contrast	13
7855026422	tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	14
7855028240	anaphora	the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences	15
7855030133	periodic	a structure where the punch is at the end	16
7855033733	satire	form of literature in which irony, sarcasm, and ridicule are employed to attack human vice and folly	17
7855038229	polysyndeton	Deliberate use of many conjunctions	18
7855042965	Horatian Satire	Satire in which the voice is indulgent, tolerant, amused, and witty.	19
7855045381	Juvenalian Satire	harsh, biting satire, full of moral indignation and bitter contempt	20
7855047276	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	21
7855049072	metonymy	a figure of speech that substitutes a word with a different but closely associated word	22