AP Language Flashcards

8474497972	Allegory	Using character or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning	0
8474497973	Ambiguity	The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage.	1
8474497974	Antecedent	The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.	2
8474497975	Aphorism	A terse statement of known authorship which express a general truth or a moral principle	3
8474497976	Apostrophe	A figure of speech wherein the speaker speaks directly to something nonhuman	4
8474497977	Chiasmus	An ABBA syntactical structure	5
8474497978	colloquial	the use of slang or informalities in speech or writing	6
8474497979	Conceit	A fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor	7
8474497980	Connotation	The non-literal, associative meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning.	8
8474497981	Denotation	The strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color.	9
8474497982	Diction	Related to style, refers to the writer's word choice	10
8474497983	Didactic	From the Greek, didactic literally means "teaching."	11
8474497984	Ellipsis	Three dots that indicate words have been left out of a quotation	12
8474497985	Euphism	From the Greek for "good speech"	13
8474497986	Inference	To draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented	14
8474497987	malapropism	A wonderful form of word play in which one word is mistakenly substituted for another that sounds familiar	15
8474497988	Metonymy	A term from the Greek meaning "changed label"	16
8474497989	Narrative	The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.	17
8474497990	non sequitur	This Latin phrase means "it does not follow"; i.e., that an argument is invalid.	18
8474497991	Parentheticals	Phrases, sentences, and words inside parentheses	19
8474497992	Parody	A work which imitates another in a ridiculous manner	20
8474497993	Pedantic	An adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly	21
8474497994	point of view	the perspective from which a story is told	22
8474497995	Rhetorical shift	This occurs when the author of an essay significantly alters his or her diction, syntax, or both.	23
8474497996	Sarcasm	From the Greek meaning " to tear flesh"	24
8474497997	Satire	A work that targets human vices and follies	25
8474497998	Semantics	The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning on words, their historical and psychological development	26
8474497999	Syllogism	From the Greek for "reckoning together"	27
8474498000	Symbol	Generally, anything that represents itself and stands for something else.	28
8474498001	Syntax	The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences.	29
8474498002	Theme	The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life	30
8474498003	Tone	Similar to mood, it describes the author's attitude toward his material, the audience, or both.	31
8474498004	unreliable narrator	an untrustworthy or naive commentator on events and characters in a story	32
8474498005	Zeugma	A trope, one word (usually a noun or main verb) governs two another words not related in meaning	33