AP Language vocabulary Flashcards

5025685744	cliche	a trite, stereotyped expression. a sentence or phrase usually a popular or common thought or idea, that has lost originality, ingenuity, and impact by long overuse	0
5026150681	coherence	logical interconnection; overall sense or understanding that stems from the links among its underlying ideas and from the logical organization and development of ots thematic content	1
5026162582	colloquial	ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or literary writing; informal	2
5026170857	concrete	representing or applied to an actual substance or thing, as opposed to an abstract quality	3
5026176962	connotation	the associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning	4
5026188153	denotation	the dictionary definition of a word	5
5026195159	dialect	a regional or social variety of a language distinguished by pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary, especially a variety of speech differing from the standard literary language or speech pattern of the culture in which it exists	6
5026218361	dichotomy	division into two mutually exclusive, opposed, or contradictory groups	7
5026223489	diction	an author's choice of words	8
5026228172	didactic	writing designed explicitly to instruct; teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson	9
5026234098	digression from topic	a temporary departure from one subject to another more or less distantly related topic before the discussion of the first subject is resumed	10
5026245967	editorializing	to set forth one's position or opinion on some subject in, or as if in, an editorial	11
5026256903	elegiac	expressing sorrow or lamentation	12
5026260116	ellipsis	the omission of one or more words that would complete or clarify the construction	13
5026266733	epigraph	a brief quotation which appears at the beginning of a literary work	14
5026270261	equivocation	the use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth of to avoid committing oneself, esp. in order to mislead or hedge; a fallacy caused by the double meaning of a word	15