AP language vocab Flashcards

7893774405	Syntax	The arrangement of words	0
7893774406	Diction	word choice	1
7893774407	Connotation	The associative meanings of a word or phrase	2
7893774408	Dialect	Using the Native and\or informal language of a country or play	3
7893774409	Euphemism	Using an inoffensive term or phrase in place of an offensive on	4
7893774410	Shift*	A change in meaning and \or tone from one point in the text to another	5
7893774411	Imagery **	Mental pictures	6
7893774412	Synesthesia	One sense informs another	7
7896109625	Ethos	An appeal to one's credibility	8
7970070995	Logos	An appeal to reason	9
7970070996	Pathos	An appeal to one's humanity or emotions	10
7970070997	Tone	A rhetor's attitude toward audience or subject.	11
7970070998	Methods of organization	Chronological, spatial, most and important to least.	12
7970070999	First person of view	We get to know tje narrator well, but we only see from the narrators point of view.	13
7970071000	Third person objective	The narrator is an uninvolved reporter	14
7970071001	Thief person limited	The narrator stays by the side of the msin character reporting what that character thinks.	15
7970071002	Third person ommission	The narrator reports what each character thinks	16
7970071003	Antecedent	The noun that the refers toor replaces	17
7970071004	Repitition	A writers conscious reuse of a sound, word, phrase, sentences or other elementos.	18
7970071005	Parallel	Repition of gramatical structure	19
8171707951	Allusion	A reference to a person, event, object, or work can be familiar, ect.	20
8171707952	Anecdot	A short entertaining story used to illustrate a point.	21
8171707953	Aphorism	Proverb/adage/wise sayings	22
8171707954	Ambiguity	The multiple meamings, either intentional or unintentional of a word, sentence or passage	23
8171707955	Metaphor	A comparison of two dissimilar things. An analogy	24
8171707956	Conceit	Extended metaphor	25
8171707957	Personification	A device that gives human attributes to subjects that are nonhuman,ect	26
8171707958	Pun	Play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings	27
8171707959	Juxaposition	Normally u associated ideas, words, or phrases placed next to one another, creating an effect of surprise and wit.	28
8171707960	Rhetorical question	A question that is posed without an expectation of an answer	29
8171707961	Rhetorical fragment	Eliminating non-essential words in a sentence allowing a reader to infer	30
8171707962	Motif	Recurrent images, words, objects, phrases, ext.	31
8171707963	Archetype	A perfect example of a type or group	32
8372141621	Paradox	A statement that seems contradictory, unbelievable, or absurd but may actually be true.	33
8372141622	Antithesis	Two opposing idea presented in parallel structure.	34
8372141623	Oxymoron	A paradoxical image created by using two contradictory terms together.	35
8372141624	Sarcasm	A taunting, sneering, cutting, or caustic remark intended to wound another, its expressed indirectly.	36
8372141625	Verbal irony	A speaker says one thing but means another	37
8372141626	Situational irony	The opposite or something very different happens from what is expected.	38
8372141627	Hyperbole	Exaggerated speech or writing	39
8372141628	Understatement	Expression in which something of importance is emphasized by being spoken of as though it weren't important	40
8372141629	Satire	The use of riducule, sarcasm, irony, humor, ect. To expose, attack, or deride the vices, follies, or shortcomings of humanity	41
8372141630	Parody	A work that imitates another work for humorous often satirical purposes	42