AP Language Flashcards

8832639929	Adage	A familiar proverb or wise saying	0
8832645282	Aphorism	A concise statement that usually gives advice on how to live (ex. when life gives you lemons make lemonade)	1
8832650432	Antecedent	The word to which a pronoun refers (Taehyung made a cake. He decorated it beautifully) he referring to Taehyung	2
8832658978	Ad Hominen	"Attack the man" Fallacy in which the debater is attacking the person not their argument.	3
8832662415	Ad Populum	Bandwagon. A fallacy in which one agrees with an argument because everyone is doing it.	4
8832671407	Apostrophe	Talking to something non-human	5
8832677059	Allegory	A story that has a symbolic level of meaning outside the tale itself.	6
8832680174	Anecdote	A short narrative that tells about an incident or event.	7
8832683208	Anastrophe	Unusual word order on the structure of a sentence.	8
8832688543	Antimetabole	A reversal of word order. Chiasmus	9
8832690422	Assertion	A claim; a confident statement of fact.	10
8832694417	Assumption	A warrant; something taken for granted or accepted as true without true; a valid assumption	11
8832698595	Abstract	Intangible for example good and evil, uses example to support its point	12
8832701815	Absolute	Not qualified or diminished in any way no exception	13
8832704642	Anadiplosis	Repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next; example when i give ,i give myself	14
8832709327	Allusion	A reference to another (well-known) word on person	15
8832713088	Archaism	The use of old fashioned language; example shakesphere	16
8832713089	Academic	Dry and Rhetoric writing; writing that sucks all the life out of its subject with analysis; like textbooks they are not meant to entertain	17
8832721429	Anaphora	Repeats at the beginning of each sentence.	18
8832725805	Assonance	Same, vowel sound repeating; ex. poems when the try to sound the same	19
8832728334	Alliteration	Ex, The barbarians broke through the barricade	20
8832731286	Antithesis	Ex, promised freedom, provided slavery( opposite ideas)	21
8832735862	Asyneton	Ex. You can barbecue it, boil,bake it, sautee it	22
8832739001	Analogy	comparison of two things for explanation	23
8832740982	Archetype	Original that has been imitated	24
8884593381	Bathos	insincere pathos, writing that tries too hard to be emotional. overdoing it.	25
8884615496	Backing	In argument, the support or for the warrant often characterized by the word because	26
8884627711	Chiasmus	Clauses that are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structure. ex. Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.	27
8884643312	Context	the circumstances that form the setting of an event; the parts surrounding something.	28
8884655401	Climax	the most intense part or culmination (peak) of a story	29
8884661488	Conflict	man vs. man, man vs. self, man vs. society	30
8884672894	Conceit (Controlling image)	Two things are being compared in several lines. A comparison that is highly unlikely	31
8884681968	Comic relief	Comic episodes in a dramatic on literacy work that offset more serious sections.	32
8884720584	Claim	state or assert that something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof	33
8884727952	Claim of policy	is an essay consisting of an argument that certain conditions should exist. These essays advocate adoption of policies or courses of action because problems have arisen that call for a solution.	34
8884755053	Claim of fact	answers. Did it happen? Is it true? Is it a fact?	35
8884767692	Claim of value	Attempt to prove that some things are more or less desirable than others.	36
8884782129	Closed thesis	gives reasons in your statement	37
8884792087	Credibility	the quality of being trusted and believed in	38
8884806732	Ceremonial argument	speech given at an event ex. maid of honors speech	39
8884822315	Causal Argument	inductive arguments that aim at one kind of conclusion about regularity, namely the regularity of a cause-and-effect relationship	40
8923723553	concrete	concrete imagery describes qualities that can be perceived with the five sensed	41
8923735168	cacophony	harsh,awkward sound	42
8923737585	colloquialism	speak but aren't real words like (wanna, sock you first)not what you use in a essay	43
8923758244	connotation	everything other than the literal meaning that a word suggests or implies.	44
8923764967	classical oration	five part argument structure introduction (exordium, narration, confirmation, refutation, conclusion)	45
8923791035	conclusion	part of the classical oration the major part of an argument comes between the narration of the reputation.	46
8923800723	concession	an acknowledgment that an opposing argument may be true and resonable	47
8923806313	counter argument	opposing argument strong writer will address the counterargument through	48
8923839119	cliche	unoriginal, boring, everyone says it, overused	49
8923846652	cumulative sentence	independent clause followed by a sense of subordinate clauses of phrases	50
8923916417	compound sentences	can stand alone if separated	51
8923918308	complex sentences	includes one independent and at least one dependent clause	52
8923925408	character	a person in a novel or a play, mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual	53
8923988618	dogmatism	my way or the highway	54
8923996475	argument of definition	using a definition that using it to prove yourself correct ex. is cheerleading a sport get the definition of sport and see if cheerleading meets the standards	55
8924008119	denotation	literal meaning of a word	56
8924011231	dialect	variety of a language that is distinguished from other varieties of the same language by features such as grammer	57
8924024441	discourse	art of speaking	58
8924027232	didactic	intended to teach	59
8924030106	dissonance	tension or clash, don't fit together, and cause tension	60
8924037869	diction	word choice and gives element to style	61
8924051685	deductive reasoning	moves from general principles to specific conclusion (clue, clue, draw conclusion )	62
8988073517	epitaph	an inscription on a tombstone	63
8988084457	epigraph	engraved inscription	64
8988087313	eulogy	a formal speech praising a person who has died	65
8988091497	elegy	a type of poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious, thoughtful manner	66
8988100760	expletive	profane or vulgar exclamation( bad words, curse words)	67
8988107957	(conceit) extended metaphor	compare two unlikely subjects on a couple lines	68
8988114214	gradatio	extended anadiplosis: continues the pattern of repetition from clause to clause ex. "the general who became a slave, the slave who became a gladiator , the gladiator who defied an emperor.	69
8988132630	genre	a sub-category of; a category of writing characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter	70
8988140316	hubris	excessive pride or ambition that leads to the main characters downfall	71
8988145730	homily	a short sermon or a moralistic lecture.	72
8988152786	hyperbole	a figure of speech in which exaggerated is used for emphasis or effect	73
8988159222	hortative sentence	calls people into action	74
8988162560	hypothetical question	fallacy in which a conclusion is not logically justified by sufficient evidence	75