AP Language Vocabulary Test 3 Flashcards

4802339170	Infer	To draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented.	0
4802339171	Invective	An emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attach using strong, abusive language.	1
4802339172	Irony	The contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant. The difference between what appears to be and what actually is true.	2
4802339173	Juxtaposition	When two words, phrases, images, ideas are placed close together or side by side for comparison or contrast.	3
4802339174	Litotes	An understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite. She's not the healthiest person. (About a morbidly obese woman)	4
4802339175	Loose sentence	a type of sentence in which the main idea (independent clause) comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses. I went to the store to buy milk when I needed calcium.	5
4802339176	Metaphor	A figure of speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things or the substitution of one for the other, suggesting some similarity.	6
4802339177	Metonymy	figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it. The crown was responsible for the poverty throughout the kingdom.	7
4802339178	Mood	The second meaning of mood is literary, meaning the prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a work.	8
4802339179	Narrative	The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.	9
4802339180	Onomatopoeia	A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words. KAPOW!	10
4802339181	Oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	11
4802339182	Paradox	A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity.	12
4802339183	Parallelism	grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity	13