AP Language Terms L- Z Flashcards
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| 934058287 | Logos | In rhetoric, the point on Aristotle's Triangle referring to the appeal to logic | 0 | |
| 568655562 | Loose sentence | Main point/independent clause starts the sentence, followed by several dependent clauses/modifying phrases. | 1 | |
| 454401878 | Litotes | a type of meiosis (understatement) in which the writer uses a statement in the negative to create the effect | 2 | |
| 298034865 | Narrative | Mode of development that tells a story, based on sequences of connected events. | 3 | |
| 770743031 | Meiosis | Understatement | 4 | |
| 890640180 | Metaphor | A comparison stated in such a way as to imply that one object is another, figuratively speaking | 5 | |
| 858881944 | Metonymy | Figure of speech in which an attribute or commonly associated feature is used to name or designate something | 6 | |
| 555245136 | Mood | "Feeling" created in a piece of writing by the writer's tone, diction, point of view, description,etc. | 7 | |
| 690430745 | Motif | Recurrent images, objects, phrases, symbols, ideas or actions that unify the literary work or help develop the theme. | 8 | |
| 121850186 | Onomatopoeia | Word similar to the sound it represents | 9 | |
| 152246326 | Oxymoron | a combination of contradictory or incongruous words | 10 | |
| 875058056 | Paradox | Statement or idea that appears contradictory but may be true | 11 | |
| 916435928 | Parallelism or Parallel Structure | When two or more ideas (words, phrases, clauses) are given equal weight and grammatical structure in a sentence; arrangement of similarly constructed clauses, sentences or verses within a piece of writing to suggest correspondence or for emphasis | 12 | |
| 584811557 | Pathos | In rhetoric, the the point on Aristotle's Triangle referring to appeal to emotion | 13 | |
| 418473075 | Periodic sentence | Main point (independent clause) is at the end of a long sentence | 14 | |
| 803933195 | Personification | Giving human traits to objects, concepts or animals | 15 | |
| 2878953 | Polysyndeton | coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an effect | 16 | |
| 269202310 | Sarcasm | Form of verbal irony; remark meaning opposite of literal meaning, for purpose of mockery or derision. | 17 | |
| 360450157 | Satire | The use of wit, especially irony, sarcasm, and ridicule, to criticize human nature or society. | 18 | |
| 458999736 | Sententia Sententiae (pl) | An aphorism or maxim used to sum up conventional wisdom or points preceding it in argument. | 19 | |
| 882121509 | Scesis onomaton | emphasizes a point with the successive use of several words or phrases which have more or less the same meaning | 20 | |
| 59900130 | Simile | An analogy or comparison implied by using an adverb such as like or as | 21 | |
| 528022033 | Symbol | A word, place, character, or object that means something beyond what it is on a literal level. | 22 | |
| 941504552 | Synechdoche | Using a part to refer to the whole (a type of metonymy) | 23 | |
| 53623060 | Syntax | Sentence structure | 24 | |
| 405174497 | Tone | Author's attitude, communicated through his language, style, rhetorical choices; closely related to mood | 25 | |
| 521905761 | verisimilitude | The sense that what one reads is "real," or at least realistic and believable | 26 | |
| 971499377 | zeugma | one verb using different objects. If this changes the verb's initial meaning, the zeugma is sometimes called syllepsis | 27 |