AP Language Terms List #3 Flashcards

7189290810	allegory	a story in which everything is a symbol	0
7189290813	ambiguity	a vagueness of meaning; a conscious lack of clarity meant to evoke multiple meanings and interpretation	1
7189290904	anecdote	short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)	2
7189290818	aphorism	a brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.	3
7189290819	apostrophe	a figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person, or some abstraction	4
7189290823	asyndeton	a list without conjunctions example: "we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe" (JFK's inaugural address)	5
7189290824	chiasmus (kee-as-mus)	a statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed ("Susan walked in, and out rushed Mary.")	6
7189290840	eulogy	a formal speech praising a person who has died	7
7189290841	euphemism	a mild, indirect, or vague term substituting for a harsh, blunt, or offensive term E.g. He "passed away" instead of "died."	8
7189290851	invective	a strong denunciation or condemnation; abusive language	9
7189290866	parody	a work which imitates another in a ridiculous manner	10
7189371910	polysyndeton	a stylistic device in which several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect.	11
7189290878	satire	form of literature in which irony, sarcasm, and ridicule are employed to attack human vice and folly	12
7189290892	voice	can be active or passive active - the subject does the action; e.g. Joe threw the ball. passive - something is done to the subject. e.g. The ball was thrown to Bill.	13
7189290893	zeugma	a literary term for using one word to modify two other words, in two different ways. For example: "She broke his car and his heart."	14