AP Language - List 5 Flashcards
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| 7812547017 | Pedantic | Narrowly academic instead of broad and humane; excessively petty and meticulous. | 0 | |
| 7812547018 | Periodic Sentence | A sentence that expresses its main thought only at the end. | 1 | |
| 7812550106 | Persona | The role of facade that a character assumes or depicts to a reader or other audience. | 2 | |
| 7812550107 | Personification | A figure of speech in which inanimate objects are given human characteristics. | 3 | |
| 7812550108 | Plot | The interrelationship among the events in a story, the pattern of events including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. | 4 | |
| 7812552399 | Point of View | The relation in which a narrator or speaker stands to a subject of discourse. | 5 | |
| 7812552400 | Predicate | The part of the sentence that is not the grammatical subject. | 6 | |
| 7812552401 | Prose | Any discourse that is not poetry. | 7 | |
| 7812552402 | Proverb | A short pithy statement of a general truth, one that condenses common experience into memorable form (adage, aphorism, maxim). | 8 | |
| 7812556116 | Pseudonym | A false name or alias used by writers. | 9 | |
| 7812556117 | Pulp Fiction | Novels written fir mass consumption, often emphasizing exciting and titillating plots. | 10 | |
| 7812556118 | Pun | A humorous play on words, using similar-sounding or identical words to suggest different meanings. | 11 | |
| 7812556119 | Realism | The depiction of people, things, and events as they really are without idealization or exaggeration for effect (naturalism). | 12 | |
| 7812559100 | Rebuttal or Refutation | The part of discourse wherein opposing arguments are anticipated and answered. | 13 | |
| 7812559101 | Reiteration | Repetition of an idea using different words, often for emphasis or other effect. | 14 | |
| 7812559102 | Repetition | Reuse of the same words, phrases, or ideas for rhetorical effect, usually to emphasize a point. | 15 | |
| 7812564768 | Retraction | The withdrawal of a previously stated idea or opinion. | 16 | |
| 7812564769 | Rhetoric | The language of a work and its style, words, often highly emotional , used to convince or sway an audience. | 17 | |
| 7812564770 | Rhetorical Mode | A general term that identifies discourse according to its chief purpose (exposition, argumentation, description, narration). | 18 | |
| 7812568528 | Rhetorical Question | A question to which an audience already knows the answer; asked for effect - no answer expected. | 19 | |
| 7812571058 | Rhetorical Stance | Language that conveys a speaker's attitude or opinion with regard to a particular subject. | 20 | |
| 7812571059 | Rhyme | The repetition of similar sounds at regular intervals. | 21 | |
| 7812571060 | Rhythm | The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up speech and writing. | 22 | |
| 7812573584 | Romance | An extended narrative about improbable events and extraordinary people in exotic places. | 23 | |
| 7812573585 | Sarcasm | A sharp, caustic, attitude conveyed in words through jibes, taunts, or other remarks. | 24 | |
| 7812573586 | Satire | A literary style used to poke fun at, attack, or ridicule an idea, vice, or foible, often for the purpose of inducing change. | 25 | |
| 7812576235 | Sentence Structure | The arrangement of the parts of a sentence. | 26 | |
| 7812576236 | Sentiment | A synonym for view or feeling; also a refined and tender emotion. | 27 | |
| 7812576237 | Sentimental | A term that describes characters' excessive emotional response to experience; also nauseatingly nostalgic and mawkish. | 28 | |
| 7812579286 | Setting | Time, place, historical milieu, and social, political, and spiritual circumstances of a narrative. | 29 | |
| 7812579287 | Simile | A figurative comparison between two unlike things using like or as. | 30 | |
| 7812584332 | Stream of Consciousness | A style of writing in which the author tries to reproduce the random flow of thoughts in the human mind. | 31 |