AP Terms Flashcards

8575982932	rhetorical question	a question asked solely to produce an effect and not elicit a reply	0
8575982933	refutation	when a writer delivers relevant opposing arguments	1
8575982934	allegory	a narrative in which character, action, and setting represent abstracts concepts apart from the literal meaning of a story- the underlying meaning usually has a moral, social, religious, or political significance	2
8576018792	metonymy	the substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself	3
8576031022	qualifier	a statement that indicates the force of the argument	4
8576033072	declarative sentence	makes a statement (sentence type)	5
8576040532	interrogative sentence	asks a question (sentence type)	6
8576047543	imperative sentence	gives a command (sentence type)	7
8576052270	exclamatory sentence	makes and interjection (sentence type)	8
8576054512	thesis	the central claim and overall purpose of a work	9
8576057156	bias	a predisposition or subjection opinion	10
8576059715	anecdote	a short account of an interesting or humorous incident, intended to illustrate or support a point	11
8576068263	analogy	a comparison to a directly parallel case, the process of drawing a comparison between two things based on partial simulator of like features	12
8576110993	idiom	an expression that means something other than the literal meanings of its individual words	13
8576113954	tone	the voice and attitude the writer has chosen to project	14
8576116112	mood	the overall atmosphere of a work, how the atmosphere makes a reader feel	15
8576122300	antithesis	a contrast in language to bring out a contrast in ideas	16
8576125833	allusion	a brief reference to a person, event, or place- real or fictitious- or to a work of art	17
8576133212	juxtaposition	placing two ideas side by side or close together	18
8576140689	anticipation audience response	the rhetorical technique of anticipating counterarguments and offering a refutationthe rhetorical technique of anticipating counterarguments and offering a refutation	19
8576142481	euphemism	substitutions of an unoffensive, indirect, or agreeable expression for a word perceived as socially unacceptable or harsh	20
8576158370	paradox	a phrase of statement that while seeming contradictory or absurd may actually be well founded or true. Used to attract attention or to secure emphasis	21
8576171384	cliche	a timework expression that through overuse has lost its power to evoke concrete images	22
8576173661	irony	the discrepancy between appearance and reality: verbal, situational, dramatic, and Socratic	23
8576182970	oxymoron	a self contradictory combination of words	24
8578361277	logos	appealing to logical reasoning and sound evidence	25
8578363623	ethos	appealing to the audiences shared values	26
8578366856	pathos	evoking and manipulating emotions	27
8578368898	aphorism	a concise or tersely phrased statement in principal, truth, or opinion. Often found in fields like law, politics, and art	28
8578374083	deductive reasoning	method of reasoning that moves from a general premise to a specific conclusion	29
8578377380	inductive reasoning	method of reasoning that moves from specific evidence to a general conclusion based on this evidence	30
8578393627	diction	choice of words in a work and an important element of style	31
8578395820	abstract language	language describing ideas and qualities	32
8578398274	concrete language	language describing observable, specific things	33
8578401431	colloquialism	words characteristic to familiar conversation	34
8578406748	denotation	specific, exact meaning of a word as defined	35
8578408936	connotation	the emotional implications that a word may carry	36
8578410672	polysyndeton	repetition of conjunctions in close succession	37
8578416811	synecdoche	part is used for a whole of the whole for a part	38
8578425012	satire	genre of writing used to critique or ridicule through humor or sarcasm	39
8578428710	syntax	how a sentence is constucted	40
8578430175	simple sentence	a complete sentence that is neither compound , nor complex (1 subject, 1 predicate)	41
8578434574	compound sentence	a sentence that contains 2 independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction	42
8578440904	complex sentence	an independent clause joined by one or more dependent clauses	43
8578453868	antecedent	the word to which a pronoun refers	44
8578455651	parallelism	when the arrangement of parts of a sentence is similarly phrased or constructed	45
8578459856	loose sentence	when a sentence is grammatical complete before its end	46
8578464047	periodic sentence	when a sentence is NOT grammatically complete before its end	47
8578467749	anaphora	the same expression is repeated at the beginning of 2 of more consecutive lines	48
8578473108	chiasmus	second half of an expression is balanced against the first, but with the parts reversed	49