AP Language Terms Flashcards

6547930706	personification	giving human characteristics to something nonhuman	0
6547933730	verbal irony	the contrast between what is said and what is intended	1
6547935216	wit	an intellectual form of humor	2
6547936723	pun	a play on words, usually for comic effect	3
6547938768	allegory	presentation of an abstract idea through more concrete means	4
6547944293	gerund	verb ending in "ing" that acts as a noun	5
6547951635	onomatopoeia	using words that sound like what they mean	6
6547953587	Thomas Paine	the author of Common Sense	7
6547961367	Abraham Lincoln	he gave the famous "House Divided" speech	8
6547966523	Alexander the Great	ruled Greece and conquered most of the ancient world in the 4th century B.C.	9
6547970270	Augustus Ceasar	the first emperor of Rome	10
6547974770	despotism	unlimited political rule by one person	11
6547977791	Marxism	political, economic, and social doctrine that calls for a classless society	12
6547981531	complex	sentence that contains one independent and one subordinate clause	13
6547985559	periodic	sentence that begins with modifiers and ends with an independent clause	14
6547988134	imperative	sentence that gives commands or instructions	15
6547989788	inverted	sentence in which the subject comes after the verb	16
6547993147	antithesis	"Give me liberty or give me death."	17
6547997036	gradatio	"Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering."	18
6548004247	bias	prejudice toward one side of an issue	19
6548005925	ambiguity	uncertainty that leave the text open for interpretation	20
6548011811	motif	recurring element that serves to unify elements of a text	21
6548297179	innuendo	indirect or subtle derogatory implication	22
6548300130	antimetabole	pairing of two mirror phrases or clauses, for effect	23
6548305002	syllogism	logical reasoning from an inarguable premise	24
6548308668	warrant	connects the claim to the data	25
6548311471	exordium	the introduction of a speech, used to draw in the audience (classic rhetoric)	26
6548316295	hortatory	speech that incites a course of action	27
6548317610	subjunctive mood	verb used to express a wish, hypothesize, or recommend	28
6548324235	antecedent	the noun a pronoun replaces	29
6548327013	abstract	expression of an idea that cannot be detected with the five senses	30
6548329658	Lusitania	British passenger ship sunk by a German submarine in 1915 - incited the U.S. to join WWI	31
6597560433	exemplification	a pattern of development that uses examples to support or clarify a thesis or claim	32
6597649459	omniscient	all-knowing third person narrator	33
6597755515	shift	when a change occurs within a text	34
6597767626	major premise	irrefutable generalization of a syllogism	35
6597775236	red herring	a logical fallacy that makes use of off-topic issues when directly countering an argument fails	36
6597788345	ad populum	an emotional appeal to a positive concept such as patriotism or God	37
6597796074	assertion	a claim or declaration often made without support or reasons	38
6597803385	circular reasoning	when an argument is merely restated rather than proven	39
6597819384	polysyndenton	deliberate use of a series of conjunctions - "lions and tigers and bears"	40
6597857430	Inquisition	court established by the Roman Catholic Church in the 13th century to try cases of hersey	41
6597880717	Julius Caesar	"veni, vidi, vici."	42
6597892513	feudalism	socioeconomic system of the Middle Ages	43
6597907913	Patrick Henry	"Give me liberty or give me death."	44
6597913569	Brown vs. the Board of Education	this ended public school segregation in the United States	45
6597930171	collective nouns	team, staff, committee	46
6597933545	comma splice	using only a comma to join 2 independent clauses	47
6597957272	fused sentence	another name for a run-on	48
6597976772	Winston Churchill	"History is written by the victors."	49
6597982564	Abraham Lincoln	"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."	50
6597996943	Benjamin Franklin	"Well done is better than well said."	51
6598006064	conceit	an elaborate extended metaphor or simile	52
6598008584	malapropism	confused, usually comic misuse of words	53
6598017802	trope	when words are twisted or turned - irony, metaphor, personification, simile	54