AP Language and Composition Flashcards

7271620139	Allegory	A narrative in which the characters, behavior, and even the setting demonstrates multiple levels of meaning and significance. often a universal symbol or personified abstraction.	0
7271628066	Alliteration	The sequential repetition of a similar initial sound usually applied to consonants usually in closely proximate stressed syllables	1
7271631119	Allusion	A literary, historical, religious, or mythology reference in a literary work	2
7271641630	Anaphora	The regular repetition of the same words or phrases at the beginning of a successive phrases or clauses	3
7271649406	Antithesis	The juxtaposition of a sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words; phrases, grammatical structure, or ideas	4
7271658928	aphorism	A concise statement design to make a point or illustrate commonly held belief	5
7271668315	Appeals to... authority, emotion, logic:	rhetorical argument in which the speaker claims to be an authority or expert in the field or attempts to play upon the emotions or appeals to the use of reason	6
7271675180	Apostrophe	an address or invocation to something inanimate	7
7271681165	assonance	The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds usually in successive proximate words	8
7271686461	Asyndeton	A syntactical structure in which conjunctions are omitted in a series usually producing more rapid prose	9
7271816912	attitude	The sense express by the tone of voice or the mood of a piece of writing the authors feelings toward his or her subject, characters, events, or theme it might even be his or her feelings for the reader	10
7271827712	Begging the question	argumentative play where the arguer sidesteps the question for the conflict evades or ignores the real question	11
7271834039	Canon	that which has been excepted as authentic	12
7271836548	Chiasmus	A figure of speech and generally a syntactical structure where in the order of the terms in the first half of a parallel clause is reversed in the second	13
7271844552	Colloquial	A term identifying the diction of the common ordinary folks especially in a specific region or area	14
7271847312	Conceit	A comparison of two unlikely things that is drawn out within a piece of literature in particular and extended metaphor within a poem	15
7271858137	connotation	The implied, suggested, or underlying meaning of a word or phrase	16
7271866915	consonance	The repetition of two or more Consonants with a change in intervening vowels	17
7271878133	Critique	an assessment or analysis of something such as a passage of writing for determining what it is, what its limitations are and how it conforms the standard of the genre	18
7271886680	deductive reasoning	The method of argument in which specific statements and conclusions are drawn from general principles movement from the general to the specific	19
7271889223	Dialect	The language and speech indiosyncrasies of a specific area, region, or group	20
7271897923	Diction	The specific word choice an author uses to persuade or convey tone purpose or effect	21
7271901016	didactic	writing or speech that has an instructive purpose or a lesson; often associated with a dry, pompous presentation	22
7271917743	Elegy	A poem or prose that laments or meditates upon the death of a person	23
7271922932	Epistrophe	in rhetoric, the repetition of the phrase at the end of a successive sentence	24
7271925991	Epitaph	writing in praise of a dead person most often inscribed upon a headstone	25
7271927898	Ethos	in rhetoric, the appeal of a textbook to the credibility and character of the speaker, writer, or narrator	26