AP Language Terms Flashcards

9463987757	anecdote	short tale narrating an interesting or amusing biographical event	0
9464004499	diction	word choice	1
9464007509	denotation	the straightforward (dictionary) meaning of a word	2
9464007510	connotation	emotional overtones of a word: poison, victim, seized	3
9464021892	euphemism	a more agreeable word substituted for an unpleasant word (died/passed away)	4
9464024128	colloquialism	slang and use of familiar expressions	5
9464038420	allusion	reference to history, mythology, religion or literature	6
9464038421	analogy	illustration of an idea by means of a more familiar idea that is similar or parallel	7
9464041237	apostrophe	addressing an absent figure or abstraction	8
9464041238	extended metaphor	a metaphor defined with several examples	9
9464073829	hyperbole	extreme exaggeration	10
9464073830	juxtaposition	the placing of two unlike things close to each other	11
9464104910	oxymoron	conjoining contradictory terms	12
9464119790	paradox	a statement that seems impossible or not true but that proves true	13
9464119791	understatement	minimalizes a fact	14
9464140265	shift	change in position; movement	15
9464144426	satire	writing that exposes the failings of individuals, institutions, or societies to ridicule or scorn in order to change it	16
9464146898	inference	information derived by reasoning	17
9464146899	invective	the harsh denunciation of some person or thing in abusive speech or writing	18
9464146900	parody	imitation of serious work or style in a ridiculous manner	19
9464171827	sarcasm	technique that ridicules through caustic language	20
9464169683	lampoon	imitation in writing harsh satire directed toward an individual or thing	21
9464193654	syntax	the way in which words or phrases are ordered and connected to form sentences; or the set of grammatical rules governing such order	22
9464185505	style	blend of choices about diction, syntax, and figurative language unique to individuals	23
9464222273	antecedent	word referred to by a pronoun	24
9468277886	antithesis	a balance of opposites	25
9468280691	clause	group of words with a subject and a verb; can be independent or subordinate	26
9468286507	loose sentence	type of sentence in which the main clause comes first	27
9468288814	periodic sentence	main idea comes last in the sentence	28
9468298276	pacing	rate at which a text develops based on length and arrangement of sentences	29
9468298277	parallelism	the arrangement of similarly constructed clauses or sentences suggesting some correspondence between them	30
9468333831	repetition	repeating a word or phrase for emphasis	31