AP English Language terms "A" Flashcards

9637232749	allegory	A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself; characters have meanings outside themselves.	0
9637232750	anecdote	A brief story told in order to make a larger point; the event/incident itself helps speaker promote a related idea.	1
9637232751	aphorism	A concise statement designed to make a point or illustrate a commonly held belief.	2
9637232752	allusion	A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art.	3
9637232753	asyndeton	Commas used (with no conjunction) to separate a series of words; speeds up flow of sentence. X, Y, Z as opposed to X, Y, and Z.	4
9637232754	alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds.	5
9637232755	anaphora	Repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences.	6
9637232756	antithesis	The direct opposite, a sharp contrast (ex: Whereas he was fractious, I was calm).	7
9637232757	apostrophe	A figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply (ex: Oh, love, where have you gone?).	8
9637232758	anadiplosis	Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause.	9
9637232759	appeal to pathos	When a writer appeals to readers' emotions to excite and involve them in an argument.	10
9637232760	appeal to logos	Using logic or facts to appeal to audience.	11
9637232761	appeal to ethos	All about the speaker; appeal to Credibility.	12
9637232762	anachronism	Something that is not in its correct historical time; a mistake in chronology, such as by assigning a person or event to the wrong time period.	13
9637232763	analogy	A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way.	14
9637232764	audience	One's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed.	15
9637232765	assonance	Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity.	16
9637232766	antecedent	The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. The AP language exam occasionally asks for this of a given pronoun in a long, complex sentence or in a group of sentences; every one of this refers back to a previous noun/pronoun (Ex: the car he wanted was a green one. - the antecedent of "one" is "car").	17
9637232767	appositive	A noun phrase that modifies the noun set next to it., A noun or noun substitute that is placed directly next to the noun it is describing (ex: My student, Sidney, makes me want to adopt a child).	18