AP Language Terms 1-25 Flashcards

7406090667	Allegory	Device of using character or story elements to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal idea. Examples include "Animal Farm."	0
7406095116	Alliteration	"Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers."	1
7406100705	providence	God's plan	2
7406103397	plain style	a simple, clear, unadorned writing style preferred by the Puritans	3
7406109686	allusion	A direct or indirect reference to something such as a book, myth, place or art.	4
7406113401	ambiguity	Multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, or passage.	5
7406117419	Analogy	Comparison between two different things or the relationship between them.... "Pen is to paper as chalk is to _____"	6
7406124452	Antithesis	Opposite or contrast of ideas. In literature, a form of syntactical parallelism - "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."	7
7406128797	Apostrophe	Addressing something that cannot answer: "Oh Fate, why have you thwarted me??!"	8
7406135516	Caricature	A verbal description, the purpose of which is to exaggerate	9
7406138830	Colloquial	Informality in writing; gives work a conversational tone	10
7406142379	Conceit	A fanciful expression; displays verbal cleverness	11
7406146681	Connotation	The associative meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning	12
7406149248	Denotation	The strict, dictionary definition of a word	13
7406151110	Diction	Word choice	14
7406152865	Didactic	These words have the primary aim of teaching or instructing for a moral purpose	15
7406156510	Euphemism	A more agreeable or less offensive way to say something	16
7406162447	Homily	sermon	17
7406162448	Parallelism	the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc.	18
7406166944	Anaphora	the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.	19
7406175357	epistrophe	the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences.	20
7406183281	manifest	display or show (a quality or feeling) by one's acts or appearance; demonstrate.	21
7557149192	Personification	Endowing animals, ideas, or inanimate objects with human traits	22
7557155008	Parody	A work that imitates another work for comic effect	23
7557158511	Pedantic	An adjective that describes overly scholarly or "show-offy" language	24
7557167216	Periodic Sentence	A sentence that presents its main clause at the end.	25
7557172482	Irony	A contrast between what is stated and what is really meant	26
7557177156	Metonymy	"Changed label" or "substitute name"	27
7557180400	litotes	understatement	28
7557182743	loose sentence	syntax in which the main, independent clause comes first	29
7557187369	narrative	telling a story	30
7557190001	prose	major division of genre	31
7557190002	rhetoric	the art of writing and communicating effectively	32
7557195356	sarcasm	From the Greek meaning "to tear flesh"	33
7557200306	invective	hateful, bitter, angry speech	34
7633126197	satire	a work that targets human foolishness with the goal of reform or ridicule. Often includes comic devices such as wit, irony, parody, caricature, and hyperbole.	35
7633133559	semantics	studying the meaning of words, tracing their development, their connotations, and their relation to one another.	36
7633147189	syllogism	a system of formal logic that involves a three part argument: a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.	37
7633160451	symbol	Anything that both represents itself AND stands for something else. Usually something concrete - such as an object.	38
7633165316	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a PART of something is used to represent the WHOLE.	39
7633169370	synesthesia	a figure of speech in which one kind of sensory stimulus evokes another, for example, seeing red ants makes you itchy.	40
7633182547	syntax	sentence structure	41
7633182548	theme	central idea or message of the work; what the work is really ABOUT	42
7633185578	tone	the author or speaker's attitude toward his material, the audience, or both.	43
7633191326	understatement	synonym for "litotes" - opposite of "hyperbole"	44
7633197022	wit	intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights	45