AP Language and Composition Vocabulary Flashcards

5072552455	Allegory	A work that functions on a symbolic level.	0
5072557031	Alliteration	The repetition of initial consonant sounds.	1
5072564350	Allusion	A reference contained in a work.	2
5072564351	Anaphora	The regular repetition of the same words or phrases at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses.	3
5072580781	Antecedent	The word, phrase, or clause to which a pronoun refers.	4
5072590701	Antithesis	The presentation of two contrasting images. The ideas are balanced by word, phrase, clause, or paragraphs.	5
5072595853	Aphorism	A concise statement designed to make a point or illustrate a commonly held belief.	6
5072597469	Apostrophe	The act of addressing some inanimate abstraction or person that is not physically present.	7
5072609832	Appeals to... authority, emotion, or logic	Rhetorical arguments in which the speaker uses ethos, pathos, and/or logos to make the argument.	8
5072621811	Assonance	The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually in successive or proximate words.	9
5072633524	Asynedeton	A syntactical structure in which conjunctions are omitted in a series, usually producing more rapid prose.	10
5072647687	Attitude	The sense expressed by the tone of voice of a piece; the author's feeling toward the subject, characters, events, theme, or audience of a piece.	11
5072657029	Begging the Question	An argumentative ploy where the arguer sidesteps the question or the conflict, evading or ignoring the real question.	12
5072661509	Canon	That which has been accepted as authentic.	13
5072666863	Chiasmus	A figure of speech and generally a syntactical structure wherein the order of the terms in the first half of a parallel clause is reversed in the second.	14
5072671687	Claim	In argumentation, an assertion of something as fact.	15
5072674707	Colloquial	The use of slang in writing, often to create local color and to provide an informal tone.	16
5072680626	Comparison and Contrast	A mode of discourse in which two or more things are compared, contrasted, or both.	17
5072770271	Conceit	A comparison of two unlikely things that is drawn out within a piece of literature, in particular an extended metaphor.	18
5072781811	Connotation	The interpretive level of a word based on its associated images rather than its literal meaning.	19
5072794465	Consonance	The repetition of two or mores consonants with a change in the intervening vowels.	20
5072799310	Convention	An accepted manner, model, or tradition.	21
5072808269	Critique	An assessment or analysis of something, such as a passage of writing, for the purpose of determining what it is, what its limitations are, and how it conforms to the standard of the genre.	22
5072812468	Deduction	The process of moving from a general rule to a specific example.	23
5072816323	Diction	The author's choice of words that creates tone, attitude, and style, as well as meaning.	24
5072822931	Didactic	A writing whose purpose is to instruct or to teach.	25
5072826878	Elegy	A poem or prose work that lamants, or meditates upon the death of, a person or persons.	26
5072831420	Epigraph	The use of quotation at the beginning of a work that hints at its theme.	27
5072840585	Epistrophe	In rhetoric, the repetition of a phrase at the end of successive sentences.	28
5072845110	Epitaph	Writing in praise of a dead person, most often inscribed upon a headstone.	29
5072850507	Ethos	In rhetoric, the appeal of a text to the credibility and character of the speaker, writer, or narrator.	30