AP Language and Composition Tone Flashcards
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5751922545 | Abstract | ideas or concepts (no physical reference) | 0 | |
5751925038 | attitude (emotion) | feeling toward a particular thing or person; state of mind | 1 | |
5751928145 | coherence | congruity; consistence; state of logical order, clarity or structure | 2 | |
5751929927 | concrete | identifies things perceive through the senses | 3 | |
5751931155 | detail | items or parts that make up a larger picture or story | 4 | |
5751932718 | diction | author's word choice | 5 | |
5751934014 | digression | straying from the main topic; to go aside often done intentionally in order to provide an example or reveal a related idea | 6 | |
5751936710 | imagery | the sensory details of a work; the figurative language of a work | 7 | |
5751938401 | irony | a figure of speech in which intent and actual meaning differ | 8 | |
5751940330 | phrasing | Flow of language, pauses junctures and stops; sense of movement | 9 | |
5751942124 | perspective | the angle or direction an author uses to write about a certain subject | 10 | |
5751943500 | purpose | the reason an author decides to write about a certain topic | 11 | |
5751944887 | Register | part of a range; level of diction | 12 | |
5751946085 | satire | Literary works in which irony and derision are used to expose wickedness of folly | 13 | |
5751947495 | style | the writer's voice as revealed through rhetorical strategies | 14 | |
5751950300 | syntax | the structure of sentences; the arrangement of words in a sentence | 15 | |
5751953159 | tone | the manner in which an author expresses his or her attitude. The intonation of the voice that expresses meaning | 16 | |
5751957435 | structure | the arrangement of material within a work; the relationship of the parts of the work to the whole; logical division of a work | 17 |