AP Language Term Flashcards

9724314309	ad hominem		0
9724314310	allegory		1
9724314311	alliteration		2
9724314672	allusion		3
9724315674	ambiguity	intentional or unintentional multiple meanings of a word	4
9724323588	anachronism	a thing belonging to different time period	5
9724326444	analepsis	flashing back earlier point in the story	6
9724327439	prolepsis	"flashing forward" to a later moment in the chronological sequence of events	7
9724332283	anadiplosis	repetition of the last word of the previous clause (Yoda's quote)	8
9724335001	analogy	comparing similarities	9
9724338974	anaphora	structure starting with same words	10
9724344432	antecedent	a word/phrase which another word refers to	11
9724345378	aphorism	A brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life.	12
9724346729	aporia	An expression of doubt of perplexity (by developing arguments for both sides)	13
9724350675	aposiopesis	broken sentence	14
9724351171	appositive	also called a noun phrase, this modifies the noun next to it	15
9724354328	apostrophe	quotation mark	16
9724357135	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	17
9724360683	asyndeton	a writing style that has conjunction between words	18
9724362176	atmosphere	emotion created by the entire work	19
9724363438	mood	emotion that the reader felt as the result of reading the text	20
9724364481	attitude	author's approach, stance	21
9724366009	audience	readers	22
9724367941	autotelic	to have within itself a purpose of existence	23
9724371114	bathos	bath of pathos - going from serious to ridiculous	24
9724375868	begging the question	circular arguments - avoiding the important questions	25
9724391967	caesura	//	26
9724391968	canon	collection of books	27
9724410964	catharsis	process of releasing and relief from a repressed strong emotion	28
9724392935	chiasmus	grammatical construction X - switch the word cross X	29
9724397095	clause	subject + predicate	30
9724397581	cliché	over familiar	31
9724398317	colloquial	used in familiar conversation	32
9724400100	comparison & contrast	bring together two things in order to emphasize on the similarities and differences	33
9724402076	conceit	far-fetched simile or metaphor	34
9724404239	connotation	invoke of additional feeling to a word beside its literal meaning	35
9724405364	denotation	literal meaning	36
9724406837	deductive reasoning	general -> specific	37
9724408112	inductive reasoning	specific -> generalization	38
9724420541	diction	the choice and use of words	39
9724448444	didactic	moral lesson	40
9724449570	pedantic	shallow	41
9724450945	either/or fallacy	two alteration POV are presented as the ONLY option	42
9724456351	ellipses	omission from speech or writing of a word that to be understood from contextual clues	43
9724465235	epic	a long poem of heroic figures or history of a nation	44
9724469302	epigram	brief or pithy statement/poem	45
9724475924	epigraph	short quotation/saying at beginning - intended to suggest its theme	46
9724479922	epiphany	moment of realization of insight	47
9724492012	epistolary novel	novel compromised of journal and letters	48
9724492845	epithet	a characterizing word/phrase referring to a specific person or thing, for literal purpose. (Raider of Cities, wine-dark sea,...)	49