AP English Language and Composition Flashcards

7474655681	Allegory	A device using a character/ story to represent an abstraction. The Allegorical meaning usually deals with moral truth or a generalization about human existence.	0
7474675555	Allusion	A direct/ indirect reference that is commonly known such as a book, myth, place or work of art.	1
7474693971	Antecedent	The word, phrase or clause referred by a pronoun.	2
7474706982	Aphorism	A statement of know authorship which expresses general truth or a moral principle.	3
7474722725	Apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.	4
7474766842	Clause	A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb... a complete thought that can stand alone as a sentence.	5
7474781391	Diction	Refers to the writers word choices, especially with regard to their correctness, clearness or effectiveness.	6
7474833224	Euphemism	it is a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept.	7
7474949072	Hyperbole	A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement. Hyperboles are often have a comic effect ; however, a serious effect is also possible.	8
7474983740	Inference/infer	To draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented.	9
7474994254	Metaphor	A figure of speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things or the substitution of one for the other, suggesting some similarity.	10
7475018831	Metonymy	A figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it.	11
7475042669	Parody	A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule.	12
7475057417	Personification	A figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human emotions/ characteristics.	13
7475072996	Point of View	a type of perspective of how a story is told.	14
7475078619	Prose	one of the divisions of genre, prose refers to fiction and nonfiction, including all its forms. In prose the printer determines the length of the line, in poetry, the poet determines the length of the line.	15
7475099854	Rhetoric	Describes the principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively.	16
7475118542	Satire	A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule.	17
7475130836	Simile	An explicit comparison usually using "Like," "as" or "if".	18
7475143109	Syllogism	a deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion	19
7475219677	Symbol/Symbolism	Anything that represents itself and stands for something else.	20
7475228263	Syntax	The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses and sentences... very similar to dictation	21
7475240373	Theme	The central idea or message.	22
7475245328	Understatement	The ironic minimizing of fact, understatement presents something as less significant.	23