AP Language Terms to Know Flashcards

7884738268	Persona	The character created or adopted by the writer	0
7884753012	Warrant	Unstated assumptions or underlying beliefs shared by the speaker and the audience. These beliefs may be explicitly stated or implied. The warrant establishes a common ground and helps to ensure reliability of the claims made by the speaker.	1
7884889111	Diction	Refers to the writer's word choice- contributes to style, tone, and meaning	2
7884893643	High Diction	Academic, formal, specific to a specialized area	3
7884897375	Middle Diction	Common language that still holds formalities	4
7884900694	Low Diction	includes colloquial language or dialects	5
7884933458	Didactic Language	Writing intended to teach or instruct- didactic works focus on moral or ethical principles	6
7884965164	Pentadic Language	Words or phrases or a general tone that is overly scholarly or bookish	7
7885013486	invective	emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong language, when one shouts invectives, they generally display a loss of logic.	8
7885049034	Conceit	A fanciful poetic expression or ingenious comparison that is usually elaborate or exaggerated. The difference between conceit and a metaphor is the conceit is intended to be poetic and fanciful.	9
7885074323	Homily	A sermon intended to edify an an audience on a practical manner. Does not have to be theological	10
7885116391	Metonymy	A figure of speech using substitution in which a word is used for a concept or associated object/idea suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing	11
7885138508	Paradox	A statement that appears to be self contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon further inspection contains some degree of truth or validity	12
7885156557	personification	The use of human qualities to characterize non human objects or concepts	13
7885186273	Aphorism	Brief witty saying exposing some sort of truth	14
7885188835	Apostrophe	A figure of speech often occurring in a play, directly addressing an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction. The audience connects with this abstraction.	15
7885212265	Oxymoron	A figure of speech combining two terms that would normally contradict each other- sometimes an oxymoron can also be a paradox ( the living dead)	16