AP Language Vocab Words Flashcards

5753680597	ethos	the author's credibility	0
5753681867	logos	using evidence to support an argument	1
5753683156	pathos	the author's use of language to elicit an emotional response in readers	2
5753685047	metaphor	a comparison that doesn't use like or as and compares two unlike things	3
5753687340	simile	a comparison that uses like or as	4
5753688565	analogy	when a thing or idea is compared to something quite different from it	5
5753692327	syntax	the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-constructed sentences	6
5753702971	loose sentence	when the subject of sentence is elaborated on by modifying clauses or phrases	7
5753707886	compound sentence	2 independent clauses	8
5753710119	complex sentence	one or more independent/dependent clauses in a sentence	9
5753714511	periodic sentence	main clause or predicate is at the end of the sentence	10
5753718278	simple sentence	one independent clause	11
5753722911	parenthetical statement	explains or qualifies something	12
5753728147	metonymy	substitution of a name for an attribute of the thing itself (suit for business executive)	13
5753733361	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a term or a part of somwthing refers to the whole thing (all hands on deck)	14
5753740288	synesthesia	a technique used to present ideas, characters or places in a way that appeals to more than one of the 5 senses	15
5753745853	personification	the technique of taking something inanimate and giving it human qualities	16
5753750525	hyperbole	over exaggeration	17
5753750526	litote	under exaggeration	18
5753756033	compound-complex sentence	2 or more independent clauses and one dependent clause	19
5753762473	diction	style of speaking or writing	20
5753765125	asyndeton	a lack of conjuctions	21
5753765616	polysyndeton	overuse of conjunctions	22
5753767568	tone	the author's attitude	23
5753768498	apostrophe	the speaker addresses an imaginary character/figure (death, mother nature, etc)	24
5753774672	alliteration	when the first letter of every word is the same	25
5753775545	assonance	repitition of a vowel sound or dip-thong in non-rhyming word	26
5753782151	syllogism	a rhetorical device that starts an argument with something general and draws a conclusion about something more specific	27
5753788113	zeugma	when a word, usually a verb or adjective, applies to more than one noun blending together gramatically and logically different ideas	28
5753795614	caesura	a pause in a line of poetry caused by the rhythms of natural speech instead of meter	29
5753798312	tricolon	the sacred three	30
5753800311	rhetorical question	a question that doesn't expect an answer	31
5753801109	connotation	the "vibe" a word gives off, positive or negative	32
5753802495	denotation	the actual definition of a word	33