AP Language Rhetorical Devices Flashcards

9855097152	Active Voice	The subject of the sentence performs the action	0
9855100295	Allusion	An indirect reference to something with which the reader is supposed to be familiar	1
9855105275	Anecdote	A brief recounting of a relevant episode	2
9855108045	Antecedent	The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun	3
9855112002	Classicism	Art or literature characterized by a realistic view of people and the world	4
9855117120	Comic Relief	When a humorous scene is inserted into a serious story, in order to lighten the mood	5
9855123080	Diction	Word choice, particularly as an element of style	6
9855127331	Colloquial Diction	Ordinary or familiar type of conversation	7
9855131048	Colloquialism	A common or familiar type of saying	8
9855133120	Connotation	The associations suggested by a word	9
9855138702	Denotation	The literal, explicit meaning of a word	10
9855142611	Jargon	The diction of a group which practices a similar profession or activity	11
9855146047	Vernacular	Language or dialect of a particular country/ regional group	12
9855151694	Didactic	A term used to describe fiction, etc. that teaches specific lesson or moral	13
9855155240	Adage	A folk saying with a lesson	14
9855159896	Allegory	A story in which characters, etc. represent qualities or concepts that are meant to reveal an abstraction or truth	15
9855169058	Aphorism	A terse statement which expresses a general truth or moral principle	16
9855172511	Ellipsis	The deliberate omission of a word or phrase from prose done for effect by the author	17
9855178501	Euphemism	A less offensive substitute for generally unpleasant words or concepts	18
9855183043	Figurative Language	Writing that is not meant to be taken literally	19
9855186082	Analogy	A comparison of one pair of variables to a parallel set of variables	20
9855189411	Hyperbole	Exaggeration	21
9855191376	Idiom	A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally	22
9855194966	Metaphor	Makes an implied comparison	23
9855198413	Extended Metaphor	When a metaphor is continued later in a written work	24
9855203119	Conceit	A particularly elaborate extended metaphor	25
9855207644	Metonymy	Replacing an actual word or idea with a related word or concept	26
9855329609	Synecdoche	A kind of metonymy when a whole is represented by naming one of its parts or vice versa	27
9855333391	Simile	Making a direct comparison between two very different things	28
9855339836	Synesthesia	A description involving a crossing of the senses	29
9855343592	Personification	Giving human-like qualities to something that is not human	30
9855349006	Foreshadowing	When an author gives hints about what will occur later in a story	31
9855354593	Genre	The major category into which a literary work fits	32
9855358267	Gothic	Writing characterized by gloom, mystery, fear and/or death	33
9855363726	Imagery	Word or words that create a picture in the reader's mind	34
9855371607	Invective	A long, emotionally violent attack using strong, abusive language	35
9855374460	Irony	When the opposite of what you expect to happen does	36
9855378929	Verbal Irony	When you say something and mean the opposite/ something different	37
9855382602	Sarcasm	Verbal irony with a bitter tone	38
9855386747	Dramatic Irony	When the audience of a work knows something that the character doesn't	39
9855389408	Situational Irony	Found in the plot of a work, it's funny how things turn out	40
9855397094	Juxtaposition	Placing things side by side for the purpose of comparison	41
9855400481	Mood	The atmosphere created by literature and accomplished through diction	42
9855405828	Motif	A recurring idea in a piece of literature	43
9855412446	Oxymoron	When apparently contradictory terms are grouped together and suggest a paradox	44
9855415217	Pacing	The speed or tempo of an author's writing	45
9855420745	Paradox	A seemingly contradictory situation which is actually true	46
9855426500	Parallelism	Sentence construction which places equal grammatical constructions near each other	47
9855438629	Anaphora	Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of multiple clauses/ sentences in a row	48
9855443133	Chiasmus	When the same words are used twice in succession, but the second time, the words are reversed	49
9855447446	Antithesis	Two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, etc. with parallel structure	50
9855454978	Zuegma/ Syllepsis	When a single word governs or modifies two or more other words, and the meaning of the first word must change for each of the other words it governs or modifies	51
9855462505	Parenthetical Idea	Parentheses are used to set off an idea from the rest of the sentence	52
9855469303	Parody	An exaggerated imitation of a serious work for humorous purposes	53
9855474922	Persona	The fictional mask or narrator that tells a story	54
9855479982	Poetic Device	A device used in poetry to manipulate the sound of words, etc.	55
9855485068	Alliteration	The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words	56
9855488441	Assonance	The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds	57
9855491337	Consonance	The repetition of the same consonant sound at the end of words or within words	58
9855495608	Onomatopoeia	The use of a word which imitates or suggests the sound that the thing makes	59
9855499317	Internal Rhyme	When a line of poetry contains a rhyme within a single line	60
9855515178	Slant Rhyme	When a poet creates a "rhyme" of similar words	61
9855518547	End Rhyme	When the last word of two different lines of poetry rhyme	62
9855521961	Rhyme Scheme	The pattern of a poem's end rhymes	63
9855525542	Polysyndeton	When a writer creates a list of items which are all separated by conjunctions	64
9855538224	Pun	When a word that has two or more meanings is used in a humorous way	65
9855674455	Rhetorical Question	Question not asked for information but for effect	66
9855679689	Romanticism	Art or literature characterized by an idealistic view of people and the world	67
9855687678	Sarcasm	A generally bitter comment that is ironically or satirically worded	68
9855690929	Satire	A work that reveals a critical attitude toward some element of life to a humorous effect	69
9855695139	Appositive	A word or group of words placed beside a noun to supplement its meaning	70
9855703152	Balanced Sentence	A sentence in which two parallel elements are set off against each other like equal weights on a scale	71
9855706699	Compound Sentence	Contains at least two independent clauses but no dependent clauses	72
9855711109	Complex Sentence	Contains only one independent clause and at least one dependent clause	73
9855717985	Loose Sentence	When the writer begins with an independent clause, then adds subordinate elements	74
9855725494	Periodic Sentence	When the main idea isn't completed until the end of the sentence	75
9855729333	Simple Sentence	Contains only one independent clause	76
9855732654	Style	The choices in diction, tone, and syntax that a writer makes	77
9855736671	Symbol	Anything that represents or stands for something else	78
9855740767	Syntax	Grammatical arrangement of words	79
9855743769	Theme	The central idea or message of a work	80
9855749646	Tone	A writer's attitude towards the subject matter	81
9855753111	Litotes	A particular form of understatement, generated by denying the opposite of the statement, which would otherwise be used	82
9855768795	Concession	Accepting at least part or all of an opposing viewpoint	83
9855773963	Conditional Statement	An if-then statement that consists of two parts	84
9855785058	Ad Hominem	Fallacy of attacking opponents instead of their arguements	85
9855787570	Appeal to Authority	The claim that because someone famous supports an idea, this must be right	86
9855794977	Bandwagon	Urging the audience to accept a position because a majority of people already do	87
9855804827	Begging the Question	Fallacy that assumes the idea you are trying to prove as being true	88
9855807534	Cause/ Effect	Fallacy that assumes that the effect is related to a cause because the events occur together	89
9855815287	Either/ or Thinking	Fallacy that implies that one of two negative outcomes is inevitable	90
9855823837	Equivocation	Fallacy that allows a key word or term in an argument to have different meanings throughout the argument	91
9855830437	Generalization	Fallacy that bases an inference on too small a sample as the basis for a broader generalization	92
9855838795	Non Sequitur	Fallacy in which irrelevant reasons are offered to support a claim	93
9855846909	Red Herring	Fallacy that introduces a topic unrelated to the claim	94
9855853119	Slippery Slope	Fallacy that assumes a chain reaction of events which result in a terrible outcome	95
9855858068	Straw Man	States an opponent's argument in an exaggerated form, or attacking a weaker, irrelevant portion of an opponent's argument	96
9855870587	Altruism	Appeals to an audience's sense of goodness or morality	97
9855874650	Patriotism	Appeals to an audience's love of their country	98
9855882264	Intelligence	Appeals to an audience's reasoning or wisdom	99
9855886004	Plain Folk	Appeals to the experiences of the common man	100
9855889320	Snob	Appeals to an audience's taste for the finer things in life	101
9855903017	Asyndeton	The omission of conjunctions between a series of related clauses	102
9855910277	Climax	When a writer arranges ideas in order of importance	103
9855915758	Inversion	When a verb comes before the subject in a sentence	104