AP English Language Flashcards

4811824430	Active Voice	uses an easy to picture subject doing something	0
4811831224	Allegory	a work of literature in which the meaning is found out side the text often representing abstract ideas as characters	1
4811838495	Anadiplosis	using the last word of one sentence or clause to begin the next one	2
4811844139	Analogy	a comparison between to seemingly dissimilar things	3
4811850360	Anaphora	repeated words at the beginning of clauses to create meaning	4
4811854568	Anecdote	A brief story used to illustrate a point or claim	5
4811862316	Antimetabolite	ideas in the first half of a clause are reversed and repeated in the second half	6
4811870548	Antithesis	a pair of balanced clauses that are linked by contrast	7
4811875457	Apostrophe	speaking to an abstract quality an absent person or some thing as unreal as if it could answer	8
4811884244	Asyndeton	omitting conjunctions deliberately to speed a line	9
4811889764	Audience	the listener viewer or reader of a text	10
4811892782	Auxesis	words or clauses in ascending order	11
4811896365	Bias	a prejudice or preconceived notion that prevents a person from approaching a topic in a neutral or an objective way	12
4811902976	characterization	the method by which the offer builds or reveals a character it can be direct or indirect	13
4811911465	chiasmus	a pattern of inverted phrases or clauses	14
4811926603	Conceit	a metaphor that compares to very different things using a central parallel	15
4811932730	connotation	meanings or associations that readers have with a word beyond its dictionary definition or denotation often positive or negative they often greatly affect the authors tone	16
4811945528	Deductive Logic	reasoning from one or more statements to reach a logically certain conclusion	17
4811954209	Denotation	a words literal meaning	18
4811958083	Details	words that are used by an author to make something seem real	19