ap language Flashcards

9913180365	syllogism	major premise followed by minor premise leading to conclusion	0
9913180366	semantic	studies meanings of words	1
9913180367	rhetorical modes	expository (explain), argumentation (prove validity of idea), description, narration	2
9913180368	prose	fiction or nonfiction all forms	3
9913180369	pedantic	scholarly tone	4
9913180370	anaphora	type of parallelism where beginning of successive lines are repeated	5
9913180371	Parallelism	Parallel structure	6
9913180372	paradox	self contradictory statement	7
9913180373	Metonymy	Name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it	8
9913180374	litotes	A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite	9
9913180375	invective	abusive language	10
9913180376	homily	sermon; speech, lecture, or talk involving moral or spiritual advice	11
9913180377	generic conventions	traditions of each genre	12
9913180378	euphemism	more pleasant way of saying something	13
9913180379	didactic	teaching	14
9913180380	conciet	a fanciful, particularly clever extended metaphor	15
9913180381	caricature	a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect	16
9913180382	atmosphere	emotional node created by literary work	17
9913180383	apostrophe	figure of speech addressing absent/imaginary person of personified abstraction	18
9913180384	aphorism	Statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or moral principle	19
9913180385	antithesis	contrast of ideas	20
9913180386	antecedent	word or phrase referred to by projoun	21
9913180387	Ambiguity	Multiple meanings	22
9913180388	allegory	using characters or story elements to representing abstraction in addition to literal meaning	23
9913180389	isocolon	similar in structure and length (syllables)	24
9913180390	anastrophe	inversion of natural word order	25
9913180391	parenthesis	insertion of verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal flow of sentence	26
9913180392	apposition	side by side elements, the second of which serves as an explanation or modification of first	27
9913180393	ellipsis	deliberate omission of words	28
9913180394	asyndeton	deliberate omission of conjunctions between series of clauses	29
9913180395	Polysyndeton	deliberate use of many conjunctions	30
9913180396	Alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds	31
9913180397	assonance	repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonants	32
9913180398	Epistrophe	Repetition of the same word or group of words at the ends of successive clauses	33
9913180399	Antimetabole	Repetition of words in reverse order	34
9913180400	chiasmus	reversal of grammatical structure without repetition	35
9913180401	synecdoche	part stands for whole	36
9913180402	Antanaclasis	Repetition of a word in two different senses	37
9913180403	syllepsis	use of a word with two others, with each of which it is understood differently	38