AP Language Terms Flashcards

4423522065	Active Voice	Subject is doing the acting. Ex: Kevin hit the ball. Effect: flow better and make it easier to understand.	0
4423522066	Allegory	Story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning. Ex: In Lord Of The Flies the conch stands for law and order. Effect: Makes the author's story or characters stand for something larger in meaning than what they literally stand for.	1
4423528335	Anaphora	Use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition. Ex: My life is purpose. My life is goal. my life is inspiration. Effect: Adds rhythm makes it more pleasurable to read and easier to remember.	2
4423528336	Aphorism	A pithy observation that contains a general truth. Ex: Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. (Franklin) Effect: Allows writer to teach a moral truth.	3
4423529958	Elegy	Poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. Ex: Thomas Gray's elegy written in a Country Churchyard. Effect: Relies on memories of those who are no more, has a capacity to hold emotions that deeply influence people.	4
4423529959	Epistrophe	repetition of a word at the end of a successive clauses or sentences. Ex: Last week, he was just fine. Yesterday, he was just fine. And today, he was just fine. Effect : Give emphasis to an idea, thought, or passage.	5
4423532080	Euphemism	A mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing. Ex. Passed away instead of died. Effect: Helps convey ideas that have become a social taboo or are too embarrassing to mention directly.	6
4423532081	Foil	prevent from succeeding. Ex:	7
4423533790	synecdoche	Part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part. Ex: The word "sails" refers to whole ship. Effect: Gives common ideas and objects deeper meanings	8
4423535941	Metonymy	replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which is closely associated with. Ex: "As he swung toward them holding up the hand Half in appeal, but half as if to keep The life from spilling" Effect: Gives more profound meanings to otherwise common or usual things.	9
4423535942	litote	Employs an understatement by using double negatives (positive statement expressed by its opposite expressions.) Ex: Your comments on politics are not useless. Effect: Use an understatement in order to emphasize an idea rather than minimizing its importance.	10
4423538384	Malapropism	The mistaken use of a word in a place	11
4423538385	ode	Form of poetry such as sonnet or elegy. lyrical in nature but not very lengthy. Ex.There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore. Effect:	12
4423542371	Anthrapphorism	The attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object. Ex:My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a Presbyterian. This is what my mother told me, I do not know these nice distinctions myself. To me they are only fine large words meaning nothing. My mother had a fondness for such; she liked to say them, and see other dogs look surprised and envious, as wondering how she got so much education.... When I was well grown, at last, I was sold and taken away, and I never saw her again. She was broken-hearted, and so was I, and we cried; but she comforted me as well as she could. Effect: Make a wider appeal to readers could make the story more visually appealing.	13
4423542372	shift	Change in mood or attitude typically followed by a corresponding change in focus and language if a literary scene. EX: At the end of Gatsby whenever Gatsby dies and Daisy dosent even go to his funeral it puts a shift in the story. Effect: allows the reader to get into the suspense of whats going on around them.	14
4423544571	asyndeton	the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. Ex:Call up her father. Rouse him. Make after him, Poison his delight, Proclaim him in the streets. Incense her kinsmen, And, though he in a fertile climate dwell. Effect: Speeding up the rhythm of words.	15
4423544572	polysyndyton	Stylistic device in which several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect. Ex:"Let the whitefolks have their money and power and segregation and sarcasm and big houses and schools and lawns like carpets, and books, and mostly-mostly-let them have their whiteness." (Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings) Effect: Joins words and phrases and adds rhythm.	16
4423550794	syllogism	rhetorical device that starts an argument with a reference to something general from this it draws a conclusion about something more specific. Ex. "All love is wonder; if we justly do account her wonderful, why not lovely too?" Effect: Identify the general truths in a particular situation.	17
4423550795	zeugma	A figure of speech in which a word usually a verb or adjective, applies to more than one noun blending together grammatically and logically different ideas. Ex.[They] covered themselves with dust and glory. Effect: Adds flavor to help create as it helps produce a dramatic effect.	18
4423550796	chiasmus	Two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce an artistic effect. Ex: "you forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget." Effect: lay emphasizes on what they want to communicate.	19
4423552797	anadiplosis	repetition of a word or words in successive clauses in such a way that the second clause starts with the same word which marks the end of the previous clause. Ex: "For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas and hath not left his peer." Effect: Adds emphasizes to the main idea	20
4423554988	simple sentence	A sentence containing only one clause, with a single subject and predicate. Ex: The company plans to market the product overseas. Effect: Communicate clearly and make key points.	21
4423554989	compound sentence	A sentence with more than one subject or predicate. Ex: I really want to go to work, but I am too sick to drive. Effect: Link ideas together to describe something more in depth.	22
4423557661	complex sentence	A sentence containing a subordinate clause or clauses. Ex: Because my coffee was too cold, I heated it in the microwave. Effect: create a feeling of cause and effect.	23
4423559819	compound-complex sentence	A sentence having two or more coordinate independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses. Ex: Although I like to go camping , I haven't had the time to go lately, and I haven't found anyone to go with. Effect: The effect of creating suspense or feeling of climax.	24