AP Language Vocabulary Flashcards

8130933603	Sarcasm	harsh, caustic personal remarks to or about someone; less subtle than irony	0
8130933874	Simile	a figure of speech that uses like, as, or as if to make a direct comparison between two essentially different objects, actions, or qualities; for example, "The sky looked like an artist's canvas."	1
8130934167	Symbolism	the use of symbols or anything that is meant to be taken both literally and as representative of a higher and more complex significance	2
8130934884	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent a whole, such as using "boards" to mean a stage or "wheels" to mean a car - or "All hands on deck."	3
8130935115	Syntactic Fluency	Ability to create a variety of sentence structures, appropriately complex and/or simple and varied in length.	4
8130935455	Syntactic Permutation	Sentence structures that are extraordinarily complex and involved. They are often difficult for a reader to follow.	5
8130936082	Syntax	the grammatical structure of a sentence; the arrangement of words in a sentence. It includes length of sentence, kinds of sentences (questions, exclamations, declarative sentences, rhetorical questions, simple, complex, or compound).	6
8130936443	Tone	the characteristic emotion or attitude of an author toward the characters, subject, and audience (anger, sarcastic, loving, didactic, emotional, etc.)	7
8130936831	Tricolon	Sentence consisting of three parts of equal importance and length, usually three independent clauses.	8
8130937277	Understatement	the opposite of exaggeration. It is a technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended.	9
8130937917	Zeugma	a grammatically correct construction in which a word, usually a verb or adjective, is applied to two or more nouns without being repeated. Often used to comic effect, "The thief took my wallet and the Fifth Avenue bus."	10