AP Language Literary Terms Test #1 Flashcards

7250408817	Allegory	A narrative in which the characters, behavior, and even the setting demonstrates multiple levels of meaning and significance. Often a universal symbol or a personified abstraction	0
7250410331	Alliteration	A literary, historical, religious, or mythological reference in a literary work	1
7250412351	Anaphora	The regular repetition of the same words or phrases at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses	2
7250413303	Antithesis	The juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, grammatical structure, or ideas	3
7250415306	Aphorism	A concise statement designed to make a point or illustrate a commonly held belief	4
7250419019	Appeals to authority	Rhetorical arguments in which the speaker claims to be an authority or expert in a field	5
7250423013	Appeals to emotion	Rhetorical arguments in which the speaker attempts to play upon the emotions	6
7250423982	Appeals to reason	Rhetorical arguments in which the speaker appeals to the use of reason	7
7250425558	Apostrophe	An address or invocation to something inanimate	8
7274059719	Assonance:	The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually in successive or proximate words	9
7274061874	Asyndeton	A syntactical structure in which conjunctions are omitted in a series, usually producing more rapid prose	10
7274063334	Attitude:	The sense expressed by the tone of voice or the mood of a piece of writing; the author's feelings toward his or her subject, characters, events, or theme. It might even be his or her feelings for the reader	11
7274065179	Begging the question	An argumentative ploy where the arguer sidesteps the question or the conflict, evades or ignores the real question	12
7274067681	Canon	That which has been accepted as authentic	13
7274069018	Chiasmus	A figure of speech and generally a syntactical structure wherein the order of the terms in the first half of a parallel clause is reversed in the second	14