AP Language for Dec. 1 Flashcards
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| 8150082971 | Simple Sentence | Contains one subject and one verb. Ex: The singer bowed to her adoring audience. |  | 0 |
| 8150082972 | Compound Sentence | Contains two independent clauses joined by a coordinate conjunction (and, but, or), or by a semicolon. Ex: The singer bowed to the audience, but the listeners requested no encores. |  | 1 |
| 8150082973 | Complex sentence | Contains an independent clause and one or more subordinate clauses. Ex: You said that you would tell the truth. |  | 2 |
| 8150082974 | Compound-Complex sentence | Contains two or more principal clauses and one or more subordinate clauses. Ex: The singer bowed while the audience applauded, but the crowd requested no encores. |  | 3 |
| 8150082975 | Loose Sentence | Make complete sense if brought to a close before the actual ending. Ex.The woman died because she was pushed off the cliff. |  | 4 |
| 8150082976 | Periodic Sentence | Makes sense only when the end of the sentence is reached. Ex. The woman that was so nice and caring was found dead. |  | 5 |
| 8150082977 | Balanced Sentence | The phrases or clauses balance each other by virtue of their likeness or structure, meaning, and/o length. Ex. The band played their song, but the crowd was not cheering. |  | 6 |
| 8150082978 | Monosyllabic | One syllable in length. Ex. Huh, No, Etc. |  | 7 |
| 8150082979 | Polysyllabic | More than one syllable in length. Ex. Familiar, Marvelous, Etc. |  | 8 |
| 8150082980 | Colloquial | Slang Ex. Y'all |  | 9 |
| 8150082981 | Denotative | Containing an exact meaning Ex. Stop: to not be in motion |  | 10 |
| 8150082982 | Connotative | Containing a suggested meaning. Ex. You are obese. To be way over one's weight limit. |  | 11 |
| 8150082983 | Concrete | Specific Ex. You are 7 years old. |  | 12 |
| 8150082984 | Abstract | General Ex. Joy, shame, beauty, etc. | 13 | |
| 8150082985 | Euphonious | Pleasant sounding Ex. Harmonic |  | 14 |
| 8150082986 | Cacophonous | Harsh sounding Ex. Sucker |  | 15 |
| 8150128982 | Parallel | Parallelism is the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning. | 16 | |
| 8150166213 | Denunciatory | to pronounce especially publicly to be blameworthy or evil | 17 | |
| 8150199977 | Hyperbolic | With exaggeration, marked in its heavy overstatement | 18 | |
| 8150217372 | Ostentatious | marked by conspicuous or pretentious display, showy | 19 |