AP Language Terms: Tone Flashcards
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| 5545677849 | Didactic | From the Greek, literally means "teaching" | 0 | |
| 5545677850 | Invective | Emotionally violent. Attack using strong, abusive language. | 1 | |
| 5545677851 | Pedantic | Describes being over scholarly or bookish | 2 | |
| 5545677852 | Sarcasm | Greek meaning: to tear flesh. Bitter caustic language that is meant to hurt or ridicule someone. | 3 | |
| 5545677853 | Sentiment | Refined and tender emotion in literature. | 4 | |
| 5545677854 | Tone | The authors attitude toward the material, audience or both. | 5 | |
| 5545677855 | Verisimilitude | Similar to truth. The quality of realism in a work that persuades the reader that they are getting a vision of life as it is. | 6 | |
| 5545677856 | Undertone | An attitude that may lie under the obvious tone of the piece | 7 | |
| 5545677857 | Wit | Intellectual amazing language that surprises and delights. Humorous. | 8 |