AP English Language terms "R"-"S" Flashcards

6438013125	refute	Prove to be false	0
6438013126	rhetoric	The art of using language effectively and persuasively	1
6438014680	repetition	A technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for emphasis or unity	2
6438016612	rhetorical question	A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer since it is already understood	3
6438016613	satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.	4
6438018905	symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else	5
6438018906	speaker	A person who delivers/writes a text for an audience	6
6438020118	subject	In rhetoric, the topic addressed in a piece of writing.	7
6438022467	synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	8
6438022468	syllogism	A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion (ex: All trees that lose their leaves are deciduous. Maple trees lose their leaves. Maple trees are deciduous).	9
6438024765	syntax	Sentence structure; the way words are arranged. (Ex: The blue sky beckoned her. vs. She was beckoned by the blue sky.)	10
6438034113	seminal	original, ground-breaking, important	11
6438049040	simile	A comparison of two things using "like", "as", or "than"	12
6527757449	stream of consciousness	a style of writing in which the author tries to reproduce the random flow of thoughts in the human mind	13
6527790547	soliloquy	A dramatic or literary form of discourse in which a character talks to himself or herself or reveals his or her thoughts without addressing a listener.	14
6690288477	synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound", "taste the pain"); stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway	15
6690307756	Paraleipsis	an apparent omission by which a speaker artfully pretends to pass by what he really emphasizes; pretending to say nothing about something one goes on to say quite a bit about ("I need not mention", "I really shouldn't say")	16