AP Language Terms 71-110 Flashcards

5532584692	Syntax	The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences	0
5532584693	Theme	The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers to life	1
5532584694	Thesis	Statement that is a sentence that directly expresses the author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or preposition	2
5532584695	Tone	Describes the author's attitude toward his or her material or the audience	3
5532584696	Transition	A word or phrase that links different ideas	4
5532584697	Understatement	The ironic minimalizing of fact, presenting something less significant than it actually is. Makes a work humorous and emphatic;A statement that lacks emphasis and is given less force than normal.	5
5532584698	Wit	intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights	6
5532584699	Attitude	A writer's intellectual position or emotion regarding the subject of the writing (related to tone)	7
5532584700	Concrete detail	A non abstract detail asked on essay portion	8
5532584701	Descriptive detail	Detail appealing to the visual sense of the reader	9
5532584702	Devices	The figures of speech, syntax, diction, and other stylistic elements that collectively produce a particular artistic effect	10
5532584703	Language	how the elements of this combine to form a whole (diction, syntax, figurative language, etc)	11
5532584704	Narrative devices	The tools of the storyteller such as ordering events so that they build to a climactic moment or withholding information until a crucial time	12
5532584705	Narrative technique	The style of telling the story, especially the order of events and their detail	13
5532584706	Persuasive devices	The words in the passage that have strong connotations hint at this. Words that intensify the emotional effect	14
5532584707	Persuasive essay	An essay that leads to appeal to the audience's emotion or ethical standards to make them feel or support the author's position	15
5532584708	Resources of language	All the devices of composition available to a writer such as diction, syntax, sentence structure, etc	16
5532584709	Rhetorical features	Refers to how a passage is constructed. Look at the passage's organization and how the writer combines images, details, or arguments	17
5532584710	Sentence structure	The type of sentences the author uses; the simple, compound, complex types of this	18
5532584711	Bathos	the sudden appearance of the commonplace in otherwise elevated matter or style; insincere or overdone pathos	19
5532584712	Hyperbole	A non-literal exaggeration to emphasize something.	20
5532584713	Litotes	(Similar to understatement) Emphasizes a point by using a word opposite to the condition.	21
5532584714	Antithesis	A structure that places contrasting ideas next to each other.	22
5532584715	Hypophora	Asking a question, then answering it too.	23
5532584716	Rhetorical Question	A question that is asked to create an effect, not really to be answered.	24
5532584717	Procatalepsis	(Form of hypophora) Eliminates an objection without asking any questions.	25
5532584718	Distinctio	Giving the definition of a word so that the word isn't taken the wrong way.	26
5532584719	Simile	A figure of speech using "like" or "as" to compare two thing somewhat alike.	27
5532584720	Metaphor	(Similar to simile) Speaking of something as though it were another.	28
5532584721	Eponym	(Similar to allusion) Linking the attributes of a well known person to another person.	29
5532584722	Sententia	A quotation or wise saying. Can be a quote from a person.	30
5532584723	Exemplum	Providing the reader with an example to illustrate what the author means. Fictional examples need to be hypothetical.	31
5532584724	Climax	Organizing ideas in writing from least to most important.	32
5532584725	Parallelism	Structuring multiple sentences, generally the same way, to link them all.	33
5532584726	Chiasmus	(Form of parallelism) The structure of two lines are crisscrossed. The beginning of the first is at the end of the second and vice versa.	34
5532584727	Anadiplosis	(Form of repetition) Repeating the last word of a phrase or sentence near the beginning of the next.	35
5532584728	Conduplicatio	(Form of repetition) Take an important word in the previous sentence or phrase and repeats it at the beginning of the next.	36
5532584729	Metabasis	A summary of a previous body of work that allows the reader to move on to a new point.	37
5532584730	Parenthesis	A device that is used to insert additional information into the main body of the writing.Equivalent to the spoken aside.	38
5532584731	Enumeratio	A list of details about something that is supplied.	39