AP English Language Summer Literary Terms Flashcards
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| 4771353182 | Figurative language | language which connotes an idea different from its literal meaning | 0 | |
| 4771353183 | Contractions | a word created by conjoining other words and omitting letters | 1 | |
| 4771353184 | Jargon | specialized words or expressions used in certain fields or professions, and those outside that particular profession often have trouble understanding them | 2 | |
| 4771353185 | Sentences | a set of words that is complete and makes sense on its own | 3 | |
| 4771353186 | Words | a set of letters formed in an order which denotes an object or idea | 4 | |
| 4771353187 | Figures | literary devices used to add depth and create better understanding of a piece of work | 5 | |
| 4771353188 | Simple sentence | has a single independent clause | 6 | |
| 4771353189 | Compound sentence | sentence consisting of two independent clauses: that is, each of them would make sense on their own after having removed the conjunction connecting them | 7 | |
| 4771353190 | Complex sentence | a sentence with two or more clauses, one independent, and the others dependent | 8 | |
| 4771353191 | Compound-complex (sentence) | a sentence with the characteristics of a compound and a complex sentence | 9 | |
| 4771353192 | Loose sentence | a sentence in which the main clause is modified by additional phrases/clauses after the main clause | 10 | |
| 4771353193 | Periodic sentence | a sentence in which a basic sentence is modified by adding details before or in the middle of it | 11 | |
| 4771353194 | Ethos | an appeal of ethics in order to convince the audience of the credibility of a speaker/writer | 12 | |
| 4771353195 | Parallelism | The use of similar grammatical structures or phrases in conjunction for emphasis | 13 | |
| 4771353196 | Diction | choice of words | 14 | |
| 4771353197 | Romance languages | languages that have evolved from Latin | 15 | |
| 4771353198 | Latinate diction | Using words with Latin roots | 16 | |
| 4771353199 | Anglo-Saxon diction | using words with Germanic roots | 17 | |
| 4771353200 | Slang | language consisting of words and phrases which are regarded as informal | 18 | |
| 4771353201 | Dialect | a style of speech specific to a region or group | 19 | |
| 4771353202 | Denotation | literal meaning of a word | 20 | |
| 4771353203 | Connotation | what a words implies via association | 21 | |
| 4771353204 | Figures of Rhetoric | structures employed by a writer/speaker to create depth and emphasis upon ideas | 22 | |
| 4771353205 | Scheme | any artful variation from the typical arrangement if words in a sentence | 23 | |
| 4771353206 | Trope | any artful variation from the typical or expected way a word or idea is expressed | 24 | |
| 4771353207 | Parallelism of words | parallelism applied to words in forms such as reused tenses | 25 | |
| 4771353208 | Parallelism of phrases | parallelism applied to groups of words/phrases | 26 | |
| 4771353209 | Parallelism of clauses | parallelism applied to clauses | 27 | |
| 4771353210 | Zeugma | a figure in which more than one item in a sentence is governed by a single word (To laugh, love, and cry is to live) | 28 | |
| 4771353211 | Antithesis | when parallelism is used to juxtapose words, phrases, or clauses which contrast | 29 | |
| 4771353212 | Antithesis of words | when antithesis is applied to words (The profession of teaching is taxing yet rewarding) | 30 | |
| 4771353213 | Antithesis of clauses | antithesis applied to clauses (The profession of teaching taxes individuals with heavy workloads, yet rewards them with the successful endeavors of their pupils) | 31 | |
| 4771353214 | Antimetabole | a scheme in which words are repeated in different grammatical forms (When the going gets tough, the tough get going) | 32 | |
| 4771353215 | Parenthesis | a scheme interrupting the flow of the passage to provide necessary, on-the-spot information to readers | 33 | |
| 4771353216 | Appositive | a scheme used for setting off additional material, where both words or phrases have the same referent (My best friend, Bob) | 34 | |
| 4771353217 | Ellipsis | a scheme used to omit words, the meaning of which is provided by the overall context of the passage | 35 | |
| 4771353218 | Asyndeton | an omission of conjunctions between related clauses ('I came, I saw, I conquered' as opposed to 'I came and I saw and I conquered') | 36 | |
| 4771353219 | Alliteration | repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning or middle of two or more adjacent words | 37 | |
| 4771353220 | Assonance | repetition of vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of two or more adjacent words (slightly fiery) | 38 | |
| 4771353221 | Anaphora | repetition of a group of words at the beginning of successive clauses | 39 | |
| 4771353222 | Epistrophe | repetition of the same group of words at the end of successive clauses | 40 | |
| 4771353223 | Anadiplosis | repetition of the last words of the clause at the beginning of the following clause (Knowledge is power, power is money, and money is greed) | 41 | |
| 4771353224 | Climax | repetition of words, phrases or clauses in order of increasing number or importance | 42 | |
| 4771353225 | Climbing the ladder | referring to the schemes of anadiplosis and climax together | 43 | |
| 4771353226 | Simile | a comparison between two things using like or as | 44 | |
| 4771353227 | Implied metaphor | a type of metaphor that compares two unlike things without mentioning one of them (Bob barked out commands to his workers) | 45 | |
| 4771353228 | Synecdoche | A part of something used to refer to the whole (I looked out into the buzzing crowd of heads) | 46 | |
| 4771353229 | Metonymy | an entity is referred to by one of its qualities ('The law firm filed a complaint' - The law firm is a 'filer of complaints') | 47 | |
| 4771353230 | Personification | inanimate objects given human characteristics | 48 | |
| 4771353231 | Periphrasis | a descriptive word or phrases used to refer to a proper name (The city of love - also known as Paris) | 49 | |
| 4771353232 | Pun | a word that suggests two of its meanings or the meaning of a homonym | 50 | |
| 4771353233 | Anthimeria | one part of speech, usually a verb, substitutes for another, usually a noun (I could use a laugh right now) | 51 | |
| 4771353234 | Onomatopoeia | Sounds of the words used are related to their meaning | 52 | |
| 4771353235 | Overstatement | the action of expressing or stating something too strongly | 53 | |
| 4771353236 | Hyperbole | the trope of overstatement, not to be taken seriously | 54 | |
| 4771353237 | Understatement | the action of expressing or stating something too weakly | 55 | |
| 4771353238 | Litotes | the trope of understatement, affirming the negative of the truth ("I'm not too fast" said the Flash) | 56 | |
| 4771353239 | Irony | a trope meant to convey the opposite of its literal meaning | 57 | |
| 4771353240 | Sarcasm | when irony has a particularly biting or bitter tone | 58 | |
| 4771353241 | Oxymoron | words that have apparently contradictory meaning are placed near each other (Burning cold, loving hate) | 59 | |
| 4771353242 | Rhetorical question | a question designed not to secure an answer but to move the development of an idea forward and suggest a point | 60 |