AP English Language terms "A" Flashcards

9228247111	Allegory	A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself; characters have meanings outside themselves;	0
9228247112	Anecdote	A brief story told in order to make a larger point; the event/incident itself helps speaker promote a related idea	1
9228247113	Aphorism	A concise statement designed to make a point or illustrate a commonly held belief.	2
9228247114	Allusion	A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art.	3
9228247116	Alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds	4
9228247117	Anaphora	Repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences	5
9228247118	Antithesis	The direct opposite, a sharp contrast (ex: Whereas he was fractious, I was calm).	6
9228247119	Apostrophe	A figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply (ex: Oh, love, where have you gone?)	7
9228247121	Appeal to pathos	When a writer appeals to readers' emotions to excite and involve them in an argument.	8
9228247122	Appeal to logos	Using logic or facts to appeal to audience	9
9228247123	Appeal to ethos	All about the speaker. Appeal to Credibility.	10
9228247124	Anachronism	Something that is not in its correct historical time; a mistake in chronology, such as by assigning a person or event to the wrong time period	11
9228247125	Analogy	A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way	12
9228247127	assonance	Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity	13
9228247129	appositive	A noun phrase that modifies the noun set next to it., A noun or noun substitute that is placed directly next to the noun it is describing (ex: My student, Sidney, makes me want to adopt a child).	14