AP Language Terms Flashcards
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| 7241490564 | Active voice | A sentence with a ___ verb. ex) He planted his seeds in the garden. | 0 | |
| 7241504453 | Anadiplosis | The last word of the clause begins the next clause, creating a connection of ideas important to the author's purpose in some way. | 1 | |
| 7241526586 | analogy | signifies a relational comparison of or similarity between two objects or ideas ex) a heart and a pump | 2 | |
| 7241545365 | anaphora | deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive poetic lines, prose sentences, clauses, or paragraphs. Often used when politicians make promises. | 3 | |
| 7241572131 | anastrophe | the reversal of he natural order of words in a sentence or line in poetry. Shakespeare did this a lot. ex) The poisoned apple she ate to her gave cramps of a serious nature. | 4 | |
| 7241605018 | antithesis | An observation or claim opposite to your/the author's claim. ex)if claim is drill wells, it would be to divert water from river | 5 | |
| 7241647984 | aphorism | A brief statement of an opinion or elemental truth. Normally only in multiple choice section. | 6 | |
| 7241687046 | apostrophe | prayer-like, this is a direct address to someone not present, (deity, muse, God, etc.) Rarely on test, but is significant and most likely pathos | 7 | |
| 7241715136 | argument from ignorance | argument that something is true because it has never been proven false (can go two ways) | 8 | |
| 7241722188 | asyndeton | The deliberate omission of conjunctions from a series of related independent clauses. The effect is to create a tight, concise and forceful sentence. ex) All the orcs ate the food, broke the dishes, trashed the hall, said they'd be back tomorrow. | 9 | |
| 7241754173 | begging the question | an argument that introduces a claim that includes word or phrase that needs to be defined before the argument can proceed | 10 | |
| 7241819587 | chiasmus | ABBA syntactical structure rather than more common ABAB structure. ex) Ask not what your country (a) can do for you (b), but what you (b) can do for your country (a). | 11 | |
| 7241865214 | complex sentence | a sentence that is a combination of a dependent and an independent clause | 12 | |
| 7241868356 | compound-complex sentence | a combination of a complex and a compound sentence | 13 | |
| 7242482754 | declarative sentence | basic statement or assertion | 14 | |
| 7242485172 | deductive | an argument formed based off of claims or premises | 15 |