AP Vocabulary Flashcards

9771907256	Allegory	Narrative with multiple levels of meaning	0
9771913354	Allusion	A literary, historical, religious, or mythological reference	1
9771944314	Anaphora	Repetition of words at start of successive clauses	2
9771970594	Antithesis	Juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced/parallel words	3
9772003437	Aphorism	Concise statement designed to make a point/illustrate commonly held belief	4
9772081593	Apostrophe	Concise statement designed to make a point/ illustrate commonly held belief	5
9772128783	Assonance	Repetition of identical/similar vowel sounds	6
9772150371	Asyndeton	Style where conjunctions are omitted	7
9772176524	Attitude	Tones, voice/mood of writing	8
9772211007	Begging the question	Ploy where the arguer sides steps question/conflict, evading/ignoring question	9
9772259667	Canon	That which has been accepted as authentic	10
9772268808	Claim	An assertion of something as a fact	11
9772277376	Colloquial	Ordinary language	12
9772290167	Conceit	Prolonged comparison of two unlikely things	13
9772303913	Connotation	Meaning suggested by by a word apart from its denotation, or explicit definition	14
9788830339	Consonance	Repetition of two or more consonants	15
9788843418	Convention	Accepted manner, model, or tradition	16
9788859221	Deductive reasoning	Argument in which specific statements are drawn from general principles	17
9788883145	Dialect	Language or speech from a specific area	18
9788891026	Diction	Specific word choice to persuade	19
9788901878	Didactic	Containing instructive purpose or a lesson	20
9788919119	Elegy	Poetic lament on death of a person	21
9788928308	Epistrophe	Repetition of a phrase at the end of sentences	22
9788939920	Epitaph	Praise for a dead person	23
9788963961	Ethos	Appeal of text to credibility	24
9788975690	Eulogy	Speech in praise of a deceased person	25
9788985492	Euphemism	Kinder way to give unpleasant information	26
9788996482	Expository	Explains its Meaning or purpose	27
9789009629	Extended metaphor	Series of comparisons in a writing	28
9789020194	Genre	Type or class of literature	29
9789028215	Homily	Talk on moral or spiritual life	30
9789407809	Inductive reasoning	Argument in which general convulsion are drawn from specific facts	31
9789442147	Inference	Conclusion or proposition arrived at by considering facts/observation/data	32
9789457507	Irony	Contrast between what is stated and what is meant	33
9789467318	Jargon	Specialized/technical language of a trade, professional, or similar group	34
9789487136	Juxtapostion	Location of one thing adjacent to another	35
9789495315	Litote	Figure of speech that emphasizes its subject by conscious understatemeant	36
9789521242	Metonymy	Figure of speech in which an attribite/ feature is used to name/ designate something	37
9789539049	Oxymoron	Figure of speech combing two apparently contradictory elements, often humours	38
9789573036	Paradox	Seemingly contradictory statement	39
9789577793	Pathos	Element in literature that stimulates pity or sorrow	40
9789592221	Point of view	Relation of narrator/ author to subject	41
9789611103	Prose	Ordinary form of written language, not poetry	42
9789622595	Realism	Describing nature/life without idealization	43
9789644025	Rebuttal/refutation	Countering of anticipated argument	44
9789656615	Rhetorical question	Question asked for stylistic effect, answer not expected	45
9789669445	Rhetoric	The art of using words to persuade	46
9789676459	Sarcasm	Verbal irony in which "praise" is actually critical	47
9789693234	Satire	Literary work that ridicules human failings	48
9789702921	Style	Distinctive manner of expressiin	49
9789709737	Symbolism	Element of literary work that figuratively stands for something else	50
9789732323	Synecdoche	When a part is used to signify a whole	51
9789740548	Syntax	Sentence structure	52