AP Language Multiple Choice Terms Flashcards

6621661389	Allegory	Lesson being taught through image	0
6621661390	Allusion	Reference to an outside piece of literature (bible or mythology reference)	1
6621661391	Analogy	Comparison	2
6621661392	Aphorism	Short witty saying with moral	3
6621661393	Colloquial/colloquialism	Informal	4
6621661394	Connotation/denotation	Literal definition of something	5
6621661395	Didactic	Teaches a lesson	6
6621661396	Extended metaphor	Metaphor over many lines	7
6621661397	Figure of speech	Figurative language	8
6621661398	Genre	Type of literature (poem, novel, short story, bio/auto bio, drama, essay)	9
6621661399	Hyperbole	Exaggeration	10
6621661400	Inference/infer	a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.	11
6621661401	Irony/ironic	3 types: Verbal- say one thing mean another Situational- expect one thing to happen but something else does Dramatic- for drama, characters don't know something that audience does	12
6621661402	Metaphor	Comparison without using like or as	13
6621661403	Mood	Audience reaction	14
6621661404	Onomonapeia	Sound mimicking its meaning	15
6621661405	Paradox	Contradiction	16
6621661406	Parody	Mock up (making fun of something)	17
6621661407	Personification	Human qualities for an inanimate object	18
6621661408	Predicate adjective	Completes to be/linking verbs	19
6621661409	Prose	Literature	20
6621661410	Rhetoric	Style of speaking of writing	21
6621661411	Sarcasm	Satire, ironic way of writing	22
6621661412	Semantics	Study of words	23
6621661413	Subject complement	Subject completion	24
6621661414	Syllogism	Truth/premise	25
6621661415	Understatement	Type of satire, saying something is less important or exaggerated then it truly is	26
6621661416	Classification	Genre	27
6621661417	Inductive/deductive logic	Small to big idea, specific to general	28
6621661418	Antithesis	Opposite	29
6621661419	Begging the question	Answering a question with a question	30
6621661420	(Over)generalization	General statement that isn't always right	31
6621661421	Alliteration	Repetition of initial consenent	32
6621661422	Ambiguity	Not clear	33
6621661423	Antecedent	Before pronoun	34
6621661424	Apostrophe	Direct address without an answer	35
6621661425	Clause	a unit of grammatical organization said to consist of a subject and predicate.	36
6621661426	Conceit	Comparison of two dissimilar things	37
6621661427	Generic conventions	Nonspecific	38
6621661428	Homily	Sermon that teaches a lesson	39
6621661429	invective	something nasty, rant	40
6621661430	loose/periodic sentence	run on sentence	41
6621661431	metonomy	use one phase over another that means the same	42
6621661432	oxymoron	contradiction	43
6621661433	pedantic	cocky, inflated opinion of knowledge	44
6621661434	predicate nominative	noun/pronoun completion	45
6621661435	repetition	emphasis effect for repeating something	46
6621661436	rhetorical modes	methods	47
6621661437	satire	poking fun at the faults and foibles of society in order to effect change	48
6621661438	subordinate clause	clause that depends on a main clause	49
6621661439	symbol/symbolism	symbol for something	50
6621661440	false dilemma	false syllogism	51
6621661441	chronological narration	in order	52
6621661442	ad hominem argument	against/attacking person	53
6621661443	damning with faint praise	backhanded compiment	54
6621661444	reasoning in a circle	going in a circle	55
6621661445	begging the question	answering the question with a question	56
6621661446	figurative language	figures of speech	57
6621661447	syntax	position of words in a sentence	58
6621661448	style or stylistic elements	sum of the choices a writer makes as to the selection of words	59
6621661449	rhetorical purpose of function	strategy of using words effectively in speaking and writing	60
6621661450	assertion	statement or declaration	61
6621661451	metaphor	implicit comparison not using like or as	62
6621661452	anecdote	personal story	63
6621661453	antithesis	contrast or opposition of thoughts (against thesis)	64
6621661454	euphemism	less direct or offensive word or phrase substituted for one that is indirect or offensive	65
6621661455	informal	personal rather than a formal, rhetoric style	66
6621661456	circumlocution	a round about, euphemistic way of saying something (not going to the point right away)	67
6621661457	parallel syntax	two or more phrases, clauses, or sentences having the same grammatical structure	68