Ap English Language Terms Flashcards

4829919298	Active Voice	when the subject performs the action	0
4829935936	Allusion	With all the lies he says, i'm surprised his nose doesn't grow like Pinocchio's	1
4829945287	Anecdote	short story, usually serving to make the listeners laugh or ponder over a topic.	2
4840039665	Antecedent	what precedes the pronoun	3
4840041973	comic relief	humorous scene inserted in a serious story	4
4840044130	Diction		5
4840045149	colloquial	ordinary type of conversation	6
4840048427	connotation	the additional sense or meaning of a word	7
4840048428	denotation	literal meaning of the word	8
4840048787	jargon	words used in specific fields	9
4840049315	vernacular	dialect spoken by a person from the same culture	10
4840049316	didactic	intended to teach	11
4840049317	adage	statement expressing general truth	12
4840049685	allegory	story or poem with a hidden meaning	13
4840049686	aphorism		14
5103658279	ellipsis	omission from speech or writing of a word	15
4840051257	euphemism	using words to convey something without saying it	16
4840051258	figurative language	language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation	17
4840052125	analogy	comparison between two things, usually in the form of a story	18
4840052126	hyperbole	ehageration	19
4840052951	idiom		20
4840052952	metaphor	comparison made without the use of like or as	21
4840053553	metonymy		22
4840053554	synecdoche	figure of speech in which the whole, or the opposite, is represented	23
4840054375	simile	comparison using like or as	24
4840054376	synesthesia	impression of a sense by a body part used to represent another scent	25
4840054619	personification	giving an object or idea the ability to perform human acts	26
4840055745	foreshadowing	prediction based on the usage or presence of certain words or phrases	27
4840055746	genre	category of a work of art or literature	28
4840056198	gothic	type of writing that involves dark scenery and ideas	29
4840056199	imagery	description of an object or person using the five senses	30
4840056598	invective	speech or writing that attacks	31
4840056599	irony	words used in a way that makes their intended meaning different from the actual meaning of the words.	32
4840056600	verbal irony	when a person says or writes one thing and means another	33
4840057594	dramatic irony	In a literary work, creating situations where audience knows more about the situations, the causes of conflicts and their resolutions before characters or actors.	34
4840057595	situational irony	when a juxtaposition appears between expectations of something to happen, and what actually happens instead.	35
4840058175	juxtaposition	two words or phrases being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.	36
4840058472	mood		37
4840058473	motive	reason behind an action	38
4840058474	oxymoron	a contradiction	39
4840059139	pacing	controlling the speed of the work	40
4840059140	paradox	self-contradictory, but sometimes true	41
4840059659	parallelism	same structure between two parts of a phrase or multiple phrases	42
4840059660	anaphora	repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an effect	43
4840060500	chiasmus	rhetorical device in which two or more phrases or words are put against each other by their opposite structures to produce a certain effect	44
4840060501	antithesis	when the literal is put with the oppsite	45
4840061173	zeugma	using one word to modify two other words	46
4840061174	parenthetical idea	qualifying or explanatory sentence, clause or word that writers insert into a paragraph or passage.	47
4840062347	persona	a figurative mask, or an identity adopted by a character	48
4840063762	polysendeton	which several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an effect.	49
4840064175	pun	a joke showing the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.	50
4840064176	rhetoric	the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.	51
4840064656	aristotle's rhetorical triangle	triangle that shows the most effective ways to persuade	52
4840069478	hypophora	answers question after asking it	53
4840067183	satire	the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.	54
4840066590	sarcasm	the use of irony to mock.	55
4840070108	rhetorical question	A question asked for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer	56
4840070545	appositive clause	A noun or pronoun that usually follows another noun or pronoun to describe or clearly identify the 1st one in some manner	57
4840070913	balanced sentence	A sentence where words, phrases, or clauses are put against each other to emphasize a contrast	58
4840070917	compound sentence	A sentence with two or more coordinate independent clauses, often joined by one or more conjunctions.	59
4840071824	complex sentence	A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause	60
4840072119	comulative sentence	-an independent clause followed by a series of dependent clauses (contrast with periodic sentence)	61
4840072842	periodic	A chart of the elements showing the repeating pattern of their properties	62
4840072843	simple sentence	A sentence consisting of one independent clause and no dependent clause	63
4840075362	declarative	Makes a statement	64
4840075363	imperative	makes a demand	65
4840076591	interrogative	Asks a question	66
4840077136	style	The author's choices regarding language, sentence structure, voice, and tone in order to communicate with the reader.	67
4840077137	symbol	An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself.	68
4840077693	syntax sentence variety	different types of sentences, length, and complexity	69
4840077694	theme	Central idea of a work of literature	70
4840077696	thesis	Focus statement of an essay; premise statement upon which the point of view or discussion in the essay is based.	71
4840078051	tone	A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels.	72
4840078418	understatement	not expressing the full gravity of a situation	73
4840078419	litotes	A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.	74
4840079148	argument	A single assertion presented and defended by the writer	75
4840079483	Aristotle's appeals	logos, ethos, pathos	76
4840080033	concession	A reluctant acknowledgment or yielding.	77
4840080034	conditional statement	A statement that can be written in if-then form.	78
4840082636	contradiction	a statement that is the opposite of another statement	79
4840082637	counterexample	an exception to a rule or claim	80
4840083621	deductive argument	an argument made from the conclusion of something known or assumed	81
4840083622	fallacy	A false or mistaken idea	82
4840084839	ad hominem	focusing on ones physical flaws instead of the flaws in their argument	83
4840084840	appeal to authority	A fallacy in which a speaker or writer seeks to persuade not by giving evidence but by appealing to the respect people have for a famous person or institution.	84
4840085496	appeal to emotion	Pathos	85
4840085975	false analogy	an argument using an inacurate metaphor	86
4840086386	false cause	a fallacy in which a speaker assumes that because one event follows another, the first event is the cause of the second	87
4840086933	hasty generalization	a fallacy in which a speaker jumps to a general conclusion on the basis of insufficient evidence	88
4840088441	non sequitur	something that does not logically follow	89
4840089152	slippery slope	A fallacy that assumes that taking a first step will lead to subsequent steps that cannot be prevented	90
4840089153	inductive argument	Creating a case by providing specific examples and drawing a conclusion based on the evidence they provide	91
4840090547	sound argument	an argument that is valid and has all true premises	92
4840091313	valid argument	an argument whose structure connects its reasons to its conclusions in a reliable manner	93
4840091314	warrant	to justify	94
4840091529	qualifier	words like usually, probably, maybe, in most cases, and most likely that are used to temper claims a bit, making them less absolute	95