AP Language Set Four 43-57 Flashcards

7901431668	Juxtaposition	The location of one thing adjacent to another to create an effect, reveal an attitude, or accomplish some other purpose.	0
7901431669	Litote	A figure of speech that emphasizes its subject by conscious understatement.	1
7901431670	Loose Sentence	A long sentence that starts with its main clause, which is followed by several dependent clauses and modifying phrases.	2
7901431671	Metaphor	One thing pictured as if it were something else, suggesting a likeness or analogy. An implicit comparison or identification of one thing with another, without the use of like or as.	3
7901431672	Metonymy	A figure of speech in which an attribute or commonly associated feature is used to name or designate something.	4
7901431673	Mode of Discourse	The way in which information is presented in written or spoken form. Narration, description, process analysis , and cause and effect are all types of this.	5
7901431674	Mood	A feeling or ambience resulting from the tone of a piece as well as the writer/narrator's attitude and point of view. It is a "feeling" that establishes the atmosphere in a work of literature or other discourse.	6
7901431675	Narrative	A mode of discourse that tells a story of some sort and it is based on sequences of connected events, usually presented in a straightforward, chronological framework	7
7901431676	Onomatopoeia	A word capturing or approximating the sound of what is described. The purpose of these words is to make a passage more effective for the reader or listener.	8
7901431677	Oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements	9
7901431678	Paradox	A statement that seems contradictory but may probably be true	10
7901431679	Parallel Structure	The use of similar forms in writing for nouns, verbs, phrases, or thoughts. In prose, recurrent syntactical similarity where several parts of a sentence or several sentences are expressed alike to show that their ideas are equal in importance.	11
7901431680	Pathos	That element in literature that stimulates pity or sorrow. In argument or persuasion it tends to be the evocation of pity.	12
7901431681	Periodic Sentence	A long sentence in which the main clause is not completed until the end	13
7901431682	Personification	Treating an abstraction or nonhuman object as if it were a person by endowing it with human features or qualities	14