AP Literature Vocab 3A Flashcards

3152837322	Synecdoche	A figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole or the whole of it for a part.	0
3152837323	Synesthesia	When one kind of sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another. Ex: the sight of red ants makes you itchy	1
3152837324	Syntax	The way an author choose to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences similar to diction	2
3152837325	Theme	The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life. Usually it is unstated in fictional works, but in nonfiction, it may be directly state,.especially in expository or argumentive writing.	3
3152837326	Thesis	The sentence or group of sentences that directly expresses the author's opinions, purpose, meaning, or position	4
3152837327	Tone	Similar to mood, it describes the authors attitude toward his materials, the audience or both	5
3152837328	Transition	A word or phrase that links different ideas used especially, although not exclusively in expository and argumentive writing, to signal a shift from one idea to another	6
3152837329	Understatement	The ironic minimalizing of fact, to present something as less significant than it is and the effect can frequently be humorous and emphatic	7
3152837330	Wit	In modern usage intellectually and using language that surprises and delights in this humorous well suggesting the speakers verbal power in creating ingenious and perceptive remarks	8
3152837331	Anadiplosis	The repetition of the last word of a preceding clause	9
3152837332	Anecdote	A short account of a particular and send or event especially as an interesting or amusing nature	10
3152837333	Anthimeria	One part of speech substituting for another	11
3152837334	Antimetabole	The repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order	12
3152837335	Chiasmus	Also called "reverse parallelisms" since the second part of a grammatical clause	13
3152837336	Cliché	An expression, idea, or element of an artistic work which has been overused to the point of losing its original meaning or affect, rendering it a stereotype	14
3152837337	Dysphemism	The substitution of a more offensive or disparaging words or phrase for one considered less offensive	15
3152837338	Epistrophe	A figure of speech and the counter part of an aspirin is the repetition of the same word or words at the end of a successive phrases clauses or sentences	16
3152837339	Epithet	A rhetorical term for an adjective (ad phrase) used to characterize a person or thing	17
3152837340	Inverted Syntax	A sentence in which the following subject does not start the sentence	18
3152837341	Jargon	The language especially the vocab peculiar to the particular trade, profession or group	19