AP language vocabulary set Flashcards

4732126604	abstract learning	language describing ideas ideas and qualities rather than observable and specific things, people, or places	0
4732130506	active voice	the subject of the sentence preforms the action	1
4732296641	ad hominem	latin for "against the man" . when a writer personal attacks his or her opponents instead of arguments	2
4732297805	allegory	a story in which characters, things, and events represent qualities or concepts	3
4732299656	alliteration	the repetition of a consonant (bill bought blue balls before Brian).	4
4732305875	allusion	an indirect reference to something	5
4732306434	ambiguity	an event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way	6
4732307223	analogy	a comparison to a directly parallel case	7
4732308164	anaphora	repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row	8
4732309276	anecdote	a brief recounting of a relevant episode	9
4732309680	annotation	explanatory notes added to a text to explain	10
4732310790	antecedent	the word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun	11
4732311345	antithesis	two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, clauses, or ideas	12
4732312497	aphorism	a terse statement which expresses a general truth or moral principal	13
4732313876	apostrophe	a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction (liberty or love)	14
4732315146	appositive	"Bill, the construction worker, was late to court"	15
4732317093	argumentation	proving the validity of a point by presenting good sound evidence	16
4732318671	assonance	repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity	17
4732320154	causal relationship	a writer asserts that one thing results in another	18
4732320748	clause	a grammatical unit that contains both a subject and verb	19
4732321897	colloquial	ordinary or familiar conversation	20
4732322384	colloquialism	a common or familiar type of saying	21
4732324244	concession	accepting at least part or all of an opposing viewpoint	22
4732324865	concrete language	describes specific, observable things, people or places, rather than ideas and qualities	23
4732328195	connotation	implied meaning rather than literal meaning	24
4732328618	coordination	combining sentences/clauses into one singe sentence	25
4732329395	deduction	moving from general statements we accept as true, to an inevitable conclusion	26
4732333592	consonance	repetition of a constant sound within two or more words in proximity	27
4732335647	denotation	to signify or stand as a name for	28
4732336031	description	to recreate, invent, or visually present a person, place, event, or action so that the reader can picture the being described	29
4732338018	diction	word choice, particularly as an element of style	30
4732339105	didactic	a term used to describe fiction, nonfiction, or poetry that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking	31
4732341686	ellipsis	the deliberate omission of a word from prose done for effect by the author	32
4732343396	emotional appeal	when a writer appeals to an audiences emotions to excite and involve them in the argument	33
4732345438	epigraph	a quotation or aphorism at the beginning or a literary work suggestive of theme	34
4732355818	ethical appeal	when a writer tries to persuade the audience to respect and believe him based on presentation of image of self through the text	35
4732358149	euphemism	a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for general unpleasant words or concepts	36
4732359832	explication	the act of interpreting or discovering the meaning of text	37
4732361416	exposition	to explain and analyze information by presenting an idea, relevant evidence, and appropriate discussion	38
4732363786	false analogy	when two cases are not sufficiently parallel to lead readers to accept a claim of connection between them	39
4732368164	figurative language	a word or words that are inaccurate literally work fits	40
4732369300	genre	the major category into which a literally work fits	41
4732370043	homily	any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advise	42
4732371766	hyperbole	figurative language that exaggerates	43
4732372763	image	word or words that create a picture in the reader's mind	44
4732373952	induction	the process of reasoning from premises that constitute good, but not absolutely certain, reasons to a conclusion that is probably correct	45
4732376252	inference/infer	to draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented	46
4732378269	interrogative sentence	sentences incorporating pronouns like what, which, who, whom, and whose	47
4732379857	invective	an emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language	48
4732383350	imperative sentence	issues a command (kick the ball now!)	49
4732383686	irony	the the opposite of what you expect to happen does	50
4732385462	verbal irony	when you say something and mean the opposite/something different	51
4732386447	dramatic irony	when the audience of a movie, play, drama knows something that the character doesn't and would be surprised to find out	52
4732389159	situational irony	found in the plot of a book, story, or movie.	53
4732393012	juxtaposition	placing things side by side for the purpose of capturing and contrasting	54
4732393561	metaphor	comparing two things without using like or as	55
4732395074	mood	the atmosphere created by the literature and accomplished through word choice	56
4732396400	non-sequitur	statement that does not logically follow another	57
4732397656	objectivity	an author's stance that instances himself from person involvement	58
4732134993	vernacular	language of dialect of a particular country or people	59
4732135758	understatement	the ironic minimizing of fact, underestimate presents something as less significant than it is.	60
4732138358	transition	smooth movement from one paragraph (or idea) to another	61
4732245113	topic sentence	it either expresses the main point outright or makes the point unmistakably clear	62
4732247528	tone	a writer's attitude toward his subject matter revealed through diction	63
4732250332	thesis	the sentence or groups of sentences that directly expresses the authors opinion, purpose, meaning, or proposition	64
4732251903	theme	the central idea or message	65
4732252398	syntax	grammatical arrangement of words; grouping of words	66
4732254418	symbol/ symbolism	anything that represents or stands for something else	67
4732255345	syllogism	a deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises: "major" and "minor"	68
4732257628	subordinate clause	a word group that contains both a subject and a verb	69
4732258576	subordination	taking less important ideas and placing them in dependent clauses, and focusing on the main important idea and placing it in the independent clause	70
4732260781	style	the choices in diction, tone, and syntax that a writer makes	71
4732261454	simile	a figurative usage that compares using like or as	72
4732261917	periodic sentence	when the main idea is not completed until the end of the sentence	73
4732262147	loose sentence	the main idea is introduced at or near the beginning and then modified by less important elements	74
4732263451	balanced sentence	one in which two parallel elements are set off against each other like equal weights on a scale	75
4732265047	compound-complex sentence	contains two or more independent clauses and at lest one dependent clause	76
4732266795	complex sentence	contains one independent clause and at least one dependent clause	77
4732268734	sentence	a group of words that expresses a complete thought	78
4732269879	simple sentence	contains one independent clause	79
4732270499	compound sentence	contains at least two independent but no dependent clauses	80
4732271138	satire	a work that reveals a critical attitude toward some element of life to a humorous effect	81
4732272234	sarcasm	a generally bitter moment that is ironically worded	82
4732273065	rhetorical question	question not asked for information but for effect	83
4732274264	rhetoric	the art of effective communication	84
4732274404	repetition	reinforcing a point by repeating the point	85
4732276622	refutation	when the writer musters relevant opposing arguments	86
4732278091	qualification	redefining your argument so that it no longer conflicts with the valid claim of an opposing viewpoint	87
4732280025	predicate nominative	a noun, group of nouns, or noun clause that renames the subject	88
4732281182	predicate adjective	an adjective, group of adjectives, or adjective clause that follows a linking verb	89
4732282058	persuasive writing	a type of argumentation having the additional aim of urging some form of action	90
4732283047	personification	giving inhuman things human qualities	91
4732284177	persona	the fictional mask or narrator that tells a story	92
4732285513	pedantic	observing strict adherence to formal rules or literal meaning at the expense of a wider view	93
4732287214	passive voice	the subject of the sentence receive the action	94
4732287844	parody	an exaggerated imitation of a serious work for humorous purposes	95
4732289786	parenthetical idea	parentheses are use to set off an idea from the rest of the sentence	96
4732291571	parallelism	sentence construction which places equal grammatical constructions near each other or repeats patterns two or more times	97
4732293251	paradox	a seemingly contradictory statement which is actually true	98
4732294281	oxymoron	"wise fool" "jumbo shrimp"	99
4732399304	onomatopoeia	"roar" "buzz" "murmur"	100
4732400888	oversimplification	when the writer denies the complexity of the idea	101