AP Flashcards

7209816636	Allegory	The device of using character and or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning	0
7209816637	Antecedent	The Word, Phase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.	1
7209816638	Antithesis	The opposition or contrast of ideas: the direct opposite.	2
7209816639	Aphorism	A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle	3
7209816640	Apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction. Such as liberty or love	4
7209816641	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.	5
7209816642	Colloquial/Colloquialism	The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing.	6
7209816643	Conceit	A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects.	7
7209816644	Deductive	Reasoning from general to the specific	8
7209816645	Euphemism	a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept	9
7209816646	Inductive	Reasoning from the specific to the general	10
7209816647	Invective	An emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language.	11
7209816648	Litotes	A form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite	12
7209816649	Morality play	Deals with personified virtues and vices	13
7209816650	Motif	A simple device that serves as a basis for an expanded narrative: the motif is a recurring feature or symbol in the work	14
7209816651	Narrative device	The ordering of events, withholding information until a climatic moment, and all tools the storyteller uses the progress the story line	15
7209816652	Oxymoron	A figure of speech wherein the author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox	16
7209816653	Parallelism	similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	17
7209816654	Rhetoric	Describes the principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively	18
7209816655	Semantics	The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words, their historical and psychological development, their connotations, and their relations to one another	19
7209816656	Synecdoche	A figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent the whole or, occasionally, the whole is used to represent a part.	20
7209816657	Synesthesia	when one kind of sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another	21