Ap Language Flashcards

8641366509	Anecdote	Short, simple narrative of an incident; often used for humorous effect or to make a point	0
8641366510	arguementation	Attempts to prove a point by "reasoned arguments" ex; persuasive writing	1
8641366511	Allegory	Extended narrative of an incident in pose or verse, where characters, events & settings represent abstract qualities & writer extends a second meaning: moral, religious, political, social, or satiric	2
8641366512	Annotation	Explanatory notes added to a text to explain structure & to add understanding to authors purpose, cite sources, or give bibliographical data.	3
8641366513	Antithesis	the presentation of two contrasting images that are balanced by word, phrase, clause, or paragraphs	4
8641366514	Rhetoric	The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing; figurative speech, & other comp techniques	5
8641366515	Colloquialism	A word or phrase in everyday conversation & informal writing but often inappropriate in formal writing.	6
8641366516	Connotation	Words suggesting implied meaning because of its association in a readers mind. Opposite of denotation.	7
8641592735	Consonance	Repetition of identical consonant sounds within two or more words in close proximity	8
8641592736	caricature	descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature, appearance or facet of personality	9
8641592737	Coherence	The quality of a piece of writing in which all the parts contribute to the development of the central theme or idea	10
8641592738	Aphorism	Short, often witty statement of a principle or truth about life.	11
8641592739	Apostrophe	Usually in poetry but sometimes in prose: calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person or to a place, thing, or personified abstraction.	12
8641592740	cacophony	Hard, awkward or dissonant sounds used deliberately in prose or poetry.	13
8641592741	connotation (n)	an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.	14
8641592742	Dennotation	The dictionary meaning of a word	15
8641592743	Enumeration	A rhetorical device used for listing the details or a process of mentioning words or phrases step by step. Type of amplification or division in which a subject is further distributed into components or parts. Writers use this to clarify & detail understanding.	16
8674204354	Analogy	A comparison of two ideas or things	17
8674204355	Parallelism	The repetition of similar grammatical or syntactical patterns.	18
8674204356	Allusion	A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art	19
8674204357	Metonymy	figure of speech in which a representative term is used for a larger idea	20
8674204358	Anaphora	the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses	21
8674204359	Epistrophe	the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences	22
8674204360	Asyndeton	A construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions	23
8674204361	Polysyndeton	The deliberate use of a series of conjunctions.	24
8697626412	Synecdoche	A part of something that represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part	25
8697626413	Tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character important for the reader to "sense" to determine an argument conveyed through word choice or viewpoint of a writer	26
8697626414	Process Analysis	The documentation and detailed understanding of how work is performed and how it can be redesigned	27
8697626415	Syntax	A set of rules in a language. It dictates how words from different parts of speech are put together in order to convey a complete thought. English- refers to how we choose to arrange our words. Choice of words is called diction, and these are closely related.	28
8791431702	Provocative Diction	Our choice of words. The purposeful use of words to provoke, excite, or stimulate a provocative question that will frame a rhetorical argument.	29
8791431703	Classification	the action or process of classifying something according to shared qualities or characteristics. Often a strategy of argumentation in order to provide the reader with structure to your argument.	30
8791431704	Understatement	the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.	31
8791431705	Colorful Diction	Purposeful word choice that will serve to accentuate meaning and tone	32
8791431706	Counterargument	an argument or set of reasons put forward to oppose an idea or theory developed in another argument. MANDATORY to acknowledge the other side to tot heir argument.	33
8791431707	Claim	Providing an argument to support your position	34
8791431708	Evidence	In the form of paraphrase and quotations. Presented to persuade the readers and used with powerful arguments in the texts or essays.	35
8791431709	Warrant	The glue that holds an argument together. Links the evidence to the claim.	36
8791431710	fallcy	An erroneous argument dependent upon an unsound or illogical contention.	37
8791431711	logical fallacy	a pattern of reasoning rendered invalid by a flaw in its logical structure that can neatly be expressed in a standard logic system.	38
8791431712	Prophcey	A significant difference between prophecy and prediction. A prophecy has all the elements of a prediction except the element of time. A prophecy is hard to determine. A prophecy has more of a religious connotation since there is an element of uncertainty about time.	39
8791431713	Prediction	A forecast made by those who calculate the parameters of the subject involved after evaluating the odds they can predict the future. A prediction is limited to a time element unlike a prophecy.	40
8791431714	adage	A short, pointed & memorable saying based on facts and is considered a veritable truth by the majority of people.	41
8791431715	Pendantic	Means to teach. Someone who is concerned with precision, formalism, accuracy, minute details in order to make an arrogant & ostentatious show of learning. He could be a writer, character, feelings, tone, or words.	42
8791431716	flippant	lacking proper respect or seriousness often associated with the impatience of youth.	43
8791431717	evocative	The use of language that suggests meanings other than the denotative. Language that connects with emotions or feelings not associated with the actual meaning of a word	44
8791431718	Anadiplosis	Repetition of a word or words in successive clauses in such a way that the second clause starts with the same word which marks the end of the previous clause	45
8791431719	syntactical inversion	Reversing the normal word order of a sentence	46
8791431720	Apposition	A grammatical construction in which two elements normally noun phrases are placed side by side with one element serving to identify the other in different way. The two elements are said to be in apposition	47
8791431721	Didactic	Frequently used for those literary texts which are overloaded with informative or realistic matter and are marked by the omission of graceful and pleasing details. Often referring to the forms of literature that are ostentatiously dull and erudite.	48
8791431722	Conceit	two vastly different objects are likened together with the help of similes or metaphors	49
8791431723	anachronism	something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred	50
8791431724	anagram	Word play where the letters of a word or phrase are rearranged so a new word is formed.	51
8791431725	periodic structure	Has the main clause and the predicate at the end. This is used for emphasis & can be persuasive by the putting the reasons for something at the beginning before the final point is made. Can create suspense or interest for the reader	52
8791431726	Paradox	an apparently contradictory statement that actually contains some truth	53
8791431727	Irony	The intended meaning is different from the actual meaning of the words also may in a different way than expected.	54
8791431728	Parenthesis	a qualifying or explanatory sentence, clause or word that writers insert into a paragraph or passage	55
8810070659	sardonic	Grimly mocking, sarcastic, satirical, mocking in a humorous manner. A tone word that describes writing that fits the meaning.	56
8810070660	Satire	expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society by using humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule. It intends on improve humanity by criticizing follies and foibles. Uses fictional characters, standing for real people to expose & condemn their corruption.	57
8810070661	polemical	relating to or involving strongly critical, controversial, or disputatious writing or speech	58
8810070662	Ambiguity	a word, phrase, or statement which contains more than one meaning.	59
8810070663	Archetype	Universal symbol, may be a character, theme, or a setting. Have a common and reoccurring representation in a particular human culture or entire human race, shape the structure & function of a literary work.	60
8829819128	Function of an archetype	Gives literary work universal acceptance	61
8829819129	tragic flaw	the character defect that causes the downfall of the protagonist of a tragedy	62
8829819130	assertion	a confident and forceful statement of fact or belief	63
8829819131	autobiography	An account of a person's life written by that person	64
8870306204	memoir	an account based on the author's personal experiences	65
8870306205	cumulative sentence	an independent clause followed by subordinate clauses or phrases that supply additional detail	66
8870306206	blank verse	Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter	67