AP Language Midterm Review Flashcards

5700970288	Diction	The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.	0
5700970289	Syntax	The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.	1
5700970290	Declarative Sentence	A sentence in the form of a statement	2
5700970291	Telegraphic Sentence	A concise sentence typically containing five words or less.	3
5700970292	Short Sentence	A sentence consisting of only one clause, with a single subject and predicate.	4
5700970293	Medium Sentence	A sentence consisting of fifteen and twenty words	5
5700970294	Simple Sentence	A sentence consisting of only one clause, with a single subject and predicate.	6
5700970295	Compound Sentence	A sentence with more than one subject or predicate.	7
5700970296	Complex Sentence	A sentence containing a subordinate clause or clauses.	8
5700970297	Periodic Sentence	A sentence that has the main clause or predicate at the end.	9
5700970298	Loose Sentence	A type of sentence in which the main idea (independent clause) is elaborated by the successive addition of modifying clauses or phrases.	10
5700970299	Parallelism	The use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc.	11
5700970300	Denotative meaning	The literal meaning of a word, the "dictionary definition."	12
5700970301	Connotative Meaning	The emotions and associations connected to a word	13
5700970325	Antithesis	A contrast or opposition between two things.	14
5700970304	Pun	A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.	15
5700970305	Synedoche	A part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	16
5700970306	Hyperbole	Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.	17
5700970307	Oxymoron	Apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction	18
5700970308	Simile	The comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid	19
5700970309	Metaphor	A word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.	20
5700970310	Alliteration	The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.	21
5700970311	Asyndeton	The omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence.	22
5700970312	Epestrophe	The repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences.	23
5700970313	Antimetable	A phrase or sentence is repeated, but in reverse order.	24
5700970314	Onomatopoeia	The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named	25
5700970315	Assonance	The repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in nonrhyming stressed syllables near enough to each other for the echo to be discernible	26
5700970316	Constonent	Denoting or relating to a consonant sound or letter.	27
5700970317	Personification	The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.	28
5700970318	Metanymy	The substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant	29
5700970319	Rhetorical Sentence	A question that you ask without expecting an answer.	30
5700970320	Anaphra	The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses.	31
5700970321	Allusion	An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.	32
5700970322	Paradox	An exclamatory passage in a speech or poem addressed to a person (typically one who is dead or absent) or thing (typically one that is personified).	33
5700970323	Parody	An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect.	34
5700970324	Paradox	Joining of opposite meanings	35