1st AP Language & Composition Vocab Flashcards
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| 7448224445 | Allegory | using characters/events to represent a separate context | 0 | |
| 7448224446 | Allusion | direct or indirect reference to something commonly known | 1 | |
| 7448224447 | Antecedent | a word, phrase, or clause referred to as a pronoun | 2 | |
| 7448224448 | Apostrophe | figure of speech towards an imaginary person or a personified abstraction | 3 | |
| 7448224449 | Aphorism | a statement of known authorship that expresses a general truth or moral | 4 | |
| 7448224450 | Clause | a grammatical unit that contains a subject and a verb | 5 | |
| 7448224451 | Diction | refers the the writers word choice and style | 6 | |
| 7448224452 | Euphemism | "good speech" less offensive substitute for an unpleasant word or concept | 7 | |
| 7448224453 | Hyperbole | figure of speech using exaggeration or an overstatement | 8 | |
| 7448224454 | Inference | to draw a reasonable conclusion from the presented info | 9 | |
| 7448224455 | Metaphor | a figure of speech using implied comparison of unlike things | 10 | |
| 7448224456 | Metonymy | "substitute name" one object is changed for another object closely associated with it | 11 | |
| 7448224457 | Parody | work that closely imitates the style of someone else's | 12 | |
| 7448224458 | Personification | the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea | 13 | |
| 7448224459 | Point of View | the perspective from which the story is told | 14 | |
| 7448224460 | Prose | a major devisions of genre, fiction and non fiction, printer determines like length | 15 | |
| 7448224461 | Rhetorical Question | a question asked only for effect, answer is assumed | 16 | |
| 7450140389 | Satire | a work that targets human vices and conventions for ridicule | 17 | |
| 7450140390 | Simile | a comparison using "like" "as" or "if" | 18 | |
| 7450140391 | Syllogism | deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises that lead to a conclusion | 19 | |
| 7450140392 | Symbolism | anything that represents itself or stands for something else | 20 | |
| 7450140393 | Syntax | the way an author joins words into phrases, clauses, and sentences. group of words | 21 | |
| 7450140394 | Theme | central idea or message | 22 | |
| 7450140395 | Understatement | presents something that is less significant than it is. ironic minimalizing | 23 |