AP Language Flashcards

3579600288	hortative sentence	sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or call to action	0
4954799370	hyperbole	deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis or to produce a comic or ironic effect; an overstatement to make a point	1
4954811402	inversion	inverted order of words in a sentence	2
4954816274	irony	figure of speech that occurs when a speaker or character says one thing but means something else, or when what is said is the opposite of what is expected, creating a noticeable incongruity	3
4954829467	juxtaposition	placement of 2 things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences	4
4954833963	mood	feeling or atmosphere created by a text	5
4954837828	propaganda	spread of ideas and information to further a cause. a lot of propaganda carries a negative connotation as it utilizes rumors, lies, disinformation, and scare tactics	6
4954845711	satire	critiquing society, its institutions, or groups of people generally through irony or sarcasm	7
4954857504	antimetabole	repetition of words in a reverse order	8
4954867680	archaic	old fashioned or outdated	9
4954867681	archaic diction	old fashioned or outdated word choice	10
4954867758	connotation	implied meaning of a word	11
4954870576	diction	word choice	12
4954875366	figurative language	nonliteral language, sometimes referred to as tropes or metaphorical language, often evoking strong imagery. Figures of speech can compare things explicitly or implicitly. Other techniques may include personification, paradox, hyperbole, understatement, and irony	13
4954916017	analogy	comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things; often uses something simple or familiar to explain something unfamiliar or complex	14
4954926742	anecdote	brief story used to illustrate a point or claim	15
4954931968	alliteration	repetition of same sound beginning several words or syllables in sequence	16
4954937025	allusion	a brief reference to a person, place, or event, or to a work of art	17
4954940911	anaphora	repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines	18
4954950909	scheme	artful syntax; deviation from the normal order of words. common themes include parallelism, juxtaposition, antithesis, antimetabole	19
4954960485	syntax	arrangement of words into phrases, clauses, and sentences, includes word order, length and structure of sentences, and such scheme	20
4954968979	tone	speakers attitude toward the subject conveyed by the speakers stylistic and rhetorical choices	21
4954983379	trope	artful diction; from the Greeks word for "turning" a figure of speech such as metaphor, simile, hyperbole	22
4954991936	understatement	a figure of speech in which something is presented as less important, dire, urgent, good, and so on, than it actually is, often for satiric or comical effect	23
4954999970	wit	in rhetoric, the use of laughter, humor, irony, and satire in the confirmation or refutation of an argument	24
4954863041	archaic	old fashioned or outdated	25