AP Language Terms Quiz 1 Flashcards

9726068052	Ad Hominem	In an argument, an attack on the person rather than on the opponent's ideas. The latin meaning of "against a man"	0
9726068053	Antithesis	the presentation of two contrasting images. The ideas are balanced by word, phrase, clause, or paragraph. "to be or not to be..." Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do you your country..."	1
9726071453	Connotation/ Denotation	The interpretive level of a word based on its associated images rather than its literal meaning, literal or dictionary meaning of a word	2
9726071454	Ellipsis	An indication by a series of three periods that some material has been omitted from a given text. It could be a word, a phrase, a sentence, a paragraph, or a whole section, it could obscure the real meaning of the piece of writing	3
9726073708	Hyperbole	extreme exaggeration, often humorous, it can also be ironic; the opposite of understatement	4
9726075008	Metonymy	A figure of speech in which a representative term is used for a larger idea	5
9726075009	Oxymoron	An image of a contradictory term (bitter-sweet, pretty ugly, jumbo shrimp)	6
9726076955	Personification	the assigning of human qualities to inanimate objects or concepts Wordsworth- "the sea that bares her bosom to the moon"	7
9726076956	Syllogism	the format of a formal argument that consists of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion	8
9726080482	Synecdoche	A figure of speech that utilizes a part as representative of the whole (all hands on deck)	9