AP Language Exam Terminology Flashcards

3181770590	antithesis	contrast of ideas	0
3181774612	caricature	a representation in which the subjects peculiarities are exagerrated	1
3181792501	deductive sentence	reasoning that starts with statement and then evidence	2
3181796619	inductive sentence	reasoning that starts with evidence and then statement	3
3181797760	ethos	character/ establishment of reputation	4
3181800577	homily	serious speech	5
3181810956	invective	abusive language	6
3181812449	logos	logic	7
3181813398	parody	ridicule of a piece of work	8
3181821472	pathos	emotional appeal	9
3181825397	claim	states the argument's position	10
3181827420	repitition	duplication of word or phrases	11
3181832669	rhetorical shift	a change in tone with a transitional word	12
3181841002	satire	work that targets vices or follies for ridicule	13
3181852626	synthesis	a combination of two or more ideas to produce a complex idea	14
3181858275	ad hominem	argument that appeals to emotion	15
3181870918	bandwagon	doing the same thing as everybody else	16
3181874822	begging the question	making a statement based on assumptions	17
3181882031	cause and effect	one event is caused or affected by another event	18
3181888113	false dilemma	a complex issue is reduced to only two alternatives when that is not the case	19
3181903869	alliteration	the repetition of sounds	20
3181909685	allusion	a reference to something commonly known	21
3181914512	analogy	a comparison between two separate things	22
3181920906	anaphora	repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of something	23
3181924041	aphorism	an observation that contains a general truth	24
3181943592	apostrophe	speech that is directed to an absent or imaginary person	25
3181946544	euphemisim	less offensive words as a substitute for generally unpleasant words or concepts	26
3181958749	figurative language	speech that does not contain literate meaning	27
3181981893	hyperbole	extreme exaggeration	28
3181982859	imagery	sensory details	29
3181983937	irony	using language that signifies the opposite	30
3181989332	metaphor	direct comparison without the use of like and as	31
3182000174	metonymy/ synecdoche	using an object that is closely identified with the term as a substitution of the term	32
3182008398	onomatopoeia	sound of words	33
3182028765	oxymoron	juxtaposed words	34
3182036145	paradox	untrue on the surface but true nevertheless	35
3182038829	personification	giving non-human objects human characteristics	36
3182047435	pun	a play on words with more than one meaning	37
3182055395	similie	comparison of two things, using the terms like and as	38
3182059631	understatement/ litotes	presenting something as less significant than it is	39
3182618169	appositive	a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it	40
3182624445	clause	something that contains both a verb and subject	41
3182638761	declarative sentence	makes a statement, they tell something	42
3182644251	ellipsis	the omission of a word or words	43
3182652682	exclamatory sentence	communicate a strong emotion or surprise	44
3182656544	imperative sentence	makes commands	45
3182664427	interrogative sentence	ask questions	46
3182669444	parallelism	the framing of words in order to compare them	47
3182683332	periodic sentence	modifying elements in the middle	48
3182687883	loose sentence	modifying elements at the end	49
3182697435	prose	anything that isn't poetry and drama	50
3182705417	anecdote	a personal story	51
3182964167	colloquial	informality in writing	52
3182969265	concrete detail	specific examples	53
3182969266	connotation	suggested meaning	54
3182976925	didactic	instructive writing	55
3182978929	denotation	dictionary definition	56
3182982621	dialect	a form of language specific to one group	57
3182986259	diction	word choice	58
3182989511	genre	different types of writing	59
3182991506	jargon	inside jokes (words or expressions)	60
3182998308	juxtaposition	placing two things together in order to emphasize similarities or differences	61
3183011481	pedantic	overly concerned with learning	62
3183013444	theme	the central idea	63
3183014817	thesis	directly express the the author's opinion	64
3183018525	tone	describe the author's attitude toward their material	65