WHS Lonker AP Language vocab fall cumulative Flashcards

5540733782	archetype	an old imaginative pattern that appears in literature across cultures and is repeated through ages. Example...prince saves princess; underdog rises	0
5540780341	assertion	the thesis or position a writer puts forward in an argument	1
5540784953	claim	the thesis or position a writer puts forward in an argument	2
5540789874	connotation	personal meaning and relationship with the word; emotional undertones	3
5540793845	denotation	specific, exact, meaning of a word; dictionary definition	4
5540798199	diction	use of words written in discourse; accurate careful use of words	5
5540833124	ethical appeal	(ethos) authors credibility and background; made to appeal to readers sense of right and wrong	6
5540839347	emotional appeal	(pathos) statements used to appeal to emotions	7
5547451549	exigence	the need or demand, intrinsic motivation to write	8
5547455235	existentialism	a philosophy that emphasizes the uniqueness and isolation of an individual experience in a hostile or indifferent universe	9
5547460912	irony	the use of words to suggest something different from their literal meaning	10
5547463254	logical appeal	(logos) principles of reasoning; valid reasoning	11
5547479352	mood	emotional, intellectual attitude of the author toward the subject	12
5547482691	point of view	the manner in which the literary materials are presented to the reader; vantage point of the author	13
5547489431	realism	truthful treatment of materials from the common, the average, and the everyday	14
5547492631	rhetoric	the art of persuasion	15
5547495230	structure	construction of sentences and arrangement of ideas	16
5547497832	theme	main dominating idea	17
5547499514	tone	attitude of the writer toward the subject; used to designate mood	18
5547502557	apostrophe	figure of speech in which the writer speaks directly to an abstract person or idea	19
5547506428	synecdoche	figure of speech uses a part to represent the whole; got a new set of wheels	20
5547511529	metonymy	substitutes a term naming an object closely associated with the word for the word itself "counting heads" "the bottle"	21
5547517003	litotes	understatement used for emphasis or affirmation; asserts a point by denying the opposite; not just sarcasm	22
5547521298	alliteration	repeating consonant sound	23
5547523572	allusion	indirect reference to famous idea, person, or book	24
5547526352	analogy	literal comparison	25
5547527785	anaphora	repetition for emphasis	26
5547529320	antithesis	figure of speech characterized by contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas; give me liberty or give me death	27
5547533788	conceit	elaborate surprising figure of speech comparing two very dissimilar things; higher level thinking	28
5547539351	epithet	an adjective before a character's name; oh great thunder Zeus	29
5547543209	false analogy	wrongful comparison of dissimilar situations	30
5547545926	flashback	device where writer presents scenes or incidents that occur prior to opening scenes	31
5547549918	foreshadowing	arrangement of events and information that prepares reader for later events	32
5547552593	hyperbole	obvious intentional exaggeration not to be taken literally; I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse	33
5547558573	imagery	qualities of work that show concreteness to appeal to memory	34
5547561726	metaphor	direct comparison	35
5547563430	onomatopoeia	sound word; bang!	36
5547564794	oxymoron	two contradictory terms used together; wise fool or jumbo shrimp	37
5547568305	paradox	statement which seems contradictory but is true; takes money to make money	38
5547581073	parallelism	structural arrangement of parts of a sentence, sentences and larger units in writing showing one element is of equal importance to another	39
5547588238	personification	giving human qualities to a non human things	40
5547590715	rhetorical question	writer poses a question to an audience but does not expect an answer	41
5547594592	simile	like or as indirect comparison	42
5547595891	understatement	minimizes the obvious importance of seriousness; assumes audience knows the significance	43
5547600638	ambiguity	doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention	44
5547603426	assumption	a belief, state or implied, that is taken for granted (not understatement)	45
5547607340	cliché	an expression that has become ineffective through over use	46
5547609434	coherence	good quality of good writing that results when al sentences, paragraphs, and longer divisions of an essay are connected naturally	47
5547615465	colloquial expression	informal language that is acceptable in formal writing only if used purposefully	48
5547618856	deduction	process of reasoning from a stated premise to a conclusion; moves from general to specific	49
5548520834	ellipsis	...	50
5548520835	generalization	to deal in generalities; to speak or write vaguely	51
5548525204	humor	writing whose purpose is invoking laughter	52
5548532134	idiom	word or phrase that is used habitually with particular meaning in a language; meaning of an idiom is not readily apparent to non native speakers	53
5548539187	induction	process of reasoning to a conclusion; moves from specific to general	54
5548542636	inversion	the placing of a sentence element out of its normal position to gain emphasis	55
5548546468	oversimplification	simplification to the point of causing misrepresentation, misconception	56
5548551184	paraphrase	restatement of an idea to retain meaning while changing the diction and form	57
5548554633	refutation	prove false or erroneous; overthrown by argument or proof	58
5548558545	sarcasm	verbal irony in which, under the guise of praise, a caustic and bitter expression of strong and personal disapproval is given; intended as a sneering taunt	59
5548568546	satire	literary manner which blends a critical attitude with humor and for the purpose of improving human institutions or conditions of; attempt to ridicule institutions for the purpose of inspiring remodeling	60
5548583352	slanting	use of certain words put together to form phrases and sentences	61
5548591579	syntax	way words are put together to form phrases	62
5548593649	unity	how words/sentences/paragraphs contribute to its thesis, all elements support single idea/purpose	63
5548648678	abstract language	thoughts or statements which refer to general qualities conditions, ideas, actions, or relationships that cannot be directly perceived by the senses; love or freedom	64
5548656491	assonance	repetition of vowel sounds	65
5548659795	asyndeton	condensed form of expression in which words, phrases, or clauses are not joined by conjunction	66
5548664173	balanced sentenced	no definition	67
5548667048	chiasmus	a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases	68
5548670858	concrete language	names specific objects, people, places, or actions that can be directly perceived by the senses	69
5548682952	consonance	repetition of consonant sounds	70
5548684625	equivocation	statement that is not literally false but clearly avoids truth; intentionally vague but not dishonest	71
5548694245	figurative language	writing that departs from literal meaning	72
5548696255	inference	drawing a reasonable conclusion from the material presented	73
5548698477	jargon	vocabulary specific to a trade or profession	74
5548701879	juxtaposition	literary technique in which two or more characters, ideas, actions, etc...are placed side by side with each other for compare and contrast	75
5548709819	loose sentence	sentence that does not end with a completion of its main clause but continues with subordinate clauses	76
5548716440	non sequitur	fallacy; conclusion does not follow the premise or evidence upon which it is based; error due to lack of logic	77
5548722553	periodic sentence	sentence where the main clause is toward the end to sentence	78
5548727046	polysyndeton	repetition of conjunctions close to succession for rhetorical effect	79
5548731950	post hoc; ergo	fallacy; post hoc: in which one event is said to have caused a later event simply because it happened earlier; ego:consequently	80
5548741674	slang	very informal language only acceptable if used purposefully	81