AP Language Arts Toolbox Terms Flashcards

3093289688	Allegory	the device of using character and or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to literal meaning	0
3093291350	Allusion	a direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known	1
3093313784	Aphorism	a terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or moral principal	2
3093315867	Apostrophe	a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction such as liberty, or love	3
3093315868	Alliteration	Repetition of sounds	4
3093317614	Analogy	A comparison or similarity between two different objects, or the relationship between them	5
3093317615	Antecedent	The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun	6
3093318775	Ambiguity	The multiple meanings (intentional or unintentional) of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage	7
3093318786	Colloquial	The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing	8
3093320394	Conceit	A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or analogy	9
3093321528	Connotation	The non-literal, associative meaning of a word;Implied, suggested meaning	10
3093321529	Clause	A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb	11
3093322673	Denotation	strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word	12
3093322674	Diction	word choices	13
3093323806	Didactic	primary am of teaching moral or ethical principles	14
3093323807	Euphemism	More agreeable less offensive language	15
3093325133	Extended Metaphor	a metaphor developed at great length	16
3093326932	Figure of Speech	a device used to produce figurative language	17
3093329313	Figurative Language	Writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning usually meant to be imaginative and vivid	18
3093329314	Genre	THe major category in which a literary work fits	19
3093330534	Generic Conventions	describes traditions in each genre	20
3093331712	Homily	any serious talk or speech involving moral or spiritual advice	21
3093331713	Hyperbole	deliberate exaggeration or overstatement	22
3093333044	Imagery	The sensory details or figurative language used to described, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions	23
3093337296	Metonymy	name of an object is substituted with another closely associated with it	24
3093338273	Oxymoron	author groups contradictory terms to suggest paradox	25
3093338274	Parallelism	Grammatical or rhetorical framing of words to give structural similarity	26
3093339561	Irony	the contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant, or the difference between what appears to be and what is actually true	27
3093339562	Mood	meaning the prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a work	28
3093340615	Paradox	A statement that appears to be self contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection it contains truth or validity	29
3093340616	Onomatopoeia	natural sounds are imitated in sounds of words	30
3093344075	Invective	emotionally violent, verbal enunciation or attack using strong,abusive language	31
3093344076	Anaphora	a sub-type of parallelism, when exact repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of a sentences	32
3093346526	Polysyndeton	use of several conjunctions	33
3093352299	Asyndeton	lack of conjunctions	34
3093352300	Sarcasm	bitter language meant to hurt or ridicule someone	35
3093352301	Isocolon	succession of clauses of approximately length and corresponding structure	36
3093352302	Point of View	perspective in which the story is told	37
3093352303	Prose	Major divisions of genre, refers to fiction and nonfiction	38
3093354122	Parody	a work that closely imitates the style or content of another with a specific comic effect	39
3093354123	Rhetoric	principles governing the art of writing effectively,eloquently, and persuasively	40
3093355364	Epistrophe	the opposite of anaphora, repetition at the end	41
3093355365	Satire	targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions to reform or ridicule	42
3093356969	Semantics	studies the meaning of words	43
3093359290	Syllogism	logic that represents two premises that inevitably leads to a sound conclusion	44
3093359291	Trope	artful variation from expected modes of expression and thoughts and ideas	45
3093360629	Understatement	The ironic minimizing of the fact.... presents something as less significant than it is	46
3093363097	Antithesis	opposition or contrast of ideas	47
3093364798	Caricature	verbal description, the purpose of which is to exaggerate or distort, for comic effect, a person's distinctive physical features or other characteristics	48
3093364799	Litote	a form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite	49
3093366609	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which part of something is used to represent the whole or, occasionally, the whole is used to represent a part	50
3093368194	Synesthesia	When one kind of sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another	51
3093368195	Wit	intellectually amusing language that surprises or delights	52
3093369622	Pun	A play of words that have a comical effect	53
3093369623	Bathos	Insincere or overly sentimental quality of writing/speech intended to invoke pity	54
3093371359	Chiasmus	A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed	55
3093372939	Epithet	A term used to point out a characteristic of a person	56
3093372940	Zeugma	the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one if them or is appropriate to each but in different ways	57
3093669319	Situational Irony	involves an incongruity between what is expected or intended and what actually occurs	58
3093670709	Verbal Irony	intended meaning of a statement differs from the meaning that the words appear to express	59
3093676772	Dramatic Irony	the audience knows more about present or future circumstances that a character in the story	60