AP Language Quiz 1 Terms Flashcards

4971474243	Allegory	the device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning - for example, an author may intend the characters to personify an abstraction lie hope or freedom	0
4971511229	Alliteration	the repetition of sounds, especially initial consonants in tow or more neighboring words - can reinforce meaning, unify ideas, supply a musical sound, and/or echo the sense of the passage	1
4971526778	Allusion	a direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known such as an event, book, myth, place or work place - can be historically, literacy, religious, topical or mythical	2
4971570836	Ambiguity	the multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional of a word, phrase, sentence or passage	3
4971594509	Analogy	a similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them - it can explain something unfamiliar by associating it with or pointing out its similarity to something more familiar	4
4971621055	Anaphora	one of the devices of repetition in which the same expression (word or words) is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses	5
4971629213	Anecdote	a short narrative detailing particulars of an interesting episode of event - the term refers to an incident in the life of a person	6
4971636063	Antecedent	the word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun -	7
4971667622	Antithesis	figure of balance in which tow contrasting ideas are intentionally juxtaposed - a contrasting of opposing ideas in adjacent phrases, clauses or sentence - it creates a definite and systematic relationship between idea	8
4971786627	Aphorism	a terse statement of know authorship which expresses a general truth or moral principle - a memorable summation of the author's point	9
4971794653	Apostrophe	a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction such a liberty or love - it's addresses to someone or something that cannot answer	10
4971841011	Asyndeton	consists of omitting conjugations between words, phrases, or clauses - this can give the effect of unpremeditated multiplicity, of an extemporaneous rather than a labored account - if more empathetic that if a final conjunction were used	11
4971886631	Atmosphere	the emotional mood created by the entirety of a literacy work, established partly by the author's choice of objects that are described - TONE CREATES MOOD	12
4971936555	Chiasmus	is a figure speech in which two speech in which two successive phrases or clauses are parallel in syntax but reverse the order of the analogous words	13
4972067540	Clause	a grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb - an independent or main clause expresses a complete thought and can stand alone as a sentence	14
4972069570	Colloquial	the use of slang or informalities in speech or writing - includes local or regional dialects	15
4972099935	Coherence	a principle demanding that the parts of any composition be arranged so that the meaning of the whole may be immediately clear and intelligible - words or phrases within the sentence	16
4972114620	Conceit	a fanciful expression usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects - displays intellectual cleverness as a result of the unusual comparison being made	17
4972124761	Connotation	the nonliteral, associative meaning of the word, the implied and suggested meaning	18
4972130012	Anadiplosis	one term and then the same separated by a comma	19