Ap Language and Composition Flashcards

10305622383	Authority	the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience.	0
10305622384	Audience	the assembled spectators or listeners at a public event, such as a play, movie, concert, or meeting.	1
10305622721	Backing	support or help	2
10305622722	Assertion	a confident and forceful statement of fact or belief	3
10305625082	Means vs. Ends	carried out for the sole purpose of achieving something else	4
10305631509	Deductive Reasoning	the process of reasoning from one or more statements to reach a logical certain conclusion	5
10305631772	Inductive Reasoning	method of reasoning in which the premises are viewed as supplying some evidence for the truth of the conclusion	6
10305631773	Alliteration	the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words	7
10305632038	Tone	the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation etc	8
10305632039	Diction	the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing	9
10305646206	Denotation	the literal or primary meaning of a word, i contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests	10
10305646207	Connotation	an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning	11
10305647074	Colliquial	used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal or literary	12
10305647350	Formal	following rules or customs, often in an exact and proper way	13
10305647632	Informal	Casual, not in accord with prescribed regulations	14
10305647633	Concrete	existing in a material or physical form; real or solid; not abstract.	15
10305650856	Abstract	existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence.	16
10305673118	Detail	an individual feature, fact, or item.	17
10305673119	Mood	a temporary state of mind or feeling.	18
10305673534	Imagery	visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.	19
10305673535	Setting	the place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place.	20
10305673832	Figurative Language	Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.	21
10305673833	Allusion	an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly	22
10305674159	Similie	A comparison using like or as	23
10305674560	Metaphor	a word or phrase applies to an object when it is not literally applicable	24
10305674561	Personification	the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea	25
10305674764	Hyperbole	exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.	26
10305676355	Understatement	the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.	27
10305677184	Paradox	A figure of speech or statement that seems contradictory but actually contains a hidden truth	28
10305697174	Verbal Irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	29
10305697175	Analogy	comprised of two different pairs of words	30
10305697813	Anecedote	A short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person	31
10305697836	Metonymy	the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant	32
10305698590	Synecdoche	a part is made to represent a whole or vice versa	33
10305698608	Rhetorical Modes/Modes of Discourse	describe the variety, conventions and purposes of the major kinds of language-based communication	34
10305701378	Exemplification	Providing examples in service of a point.	35
10305702236	Cause/effect	An action and its results are explained	36
10305702470	Description	a spoken or written representation or account of a person, object, or event	37
10305703029	Process Analysis	writer explains step by step how something is done or how to do something	38
10305703030	Narration	the telling of a story in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama; one of the four modes of discourse	39
10305704002	Comparison/Contrast	compare- to find/tell similarities contrast-to find/tell differences	40
10305704003	Exposistion	a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory.	41
10305704442	Argumentation	the action or process of reasoning systematically in support of an idea, action, or theory	42
10305705032	Repetition	the action of repeating something that has already been said or written.	43
10305705033	Point of view	a particular attitude or way of considering a matter.	44
10305705477	First Person	"I" and "Me" standpoint. Personal perspective.	45
10305734904	Second Person	Told from the reader's point of view, using "you"	46
10305734905	Third Person	Narrator is not a character, but sees the world through only one character's eyes and thoughts Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer	47
10305735577	Subjective	based on or influenced by personal feelings or tastes, or opinions	48
10305735578	Objective	not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts	49
10305736332	Syntax	The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.	50
10305736333	Anaphora	the use of a word referring to or replacing a word used earlier in a sentence, to avoid repetition	51
10305736962	Antithesis	a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else	52
10305736974	Asyndeton	the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence.	53
10305737480	Polysyndenton	the deliberate use of multiple conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words	54
10305738970	Parallel Sentence	repetition of a chosen grammatical form within a sentence	55
10305739544	Periodic Sentence	A sentence that builds toward and ends with the main clause	56
10305739545	Rhetorical Question	a statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered	57
10305740408	Inverted Syntax	where explanations are formed	58