Key AP Language Terms Flashcards

8585777649	rhetorical question	a question asked solely to produce an effect and not to elicit a reply	0
8585852332	refutation	when a writer delivers relevant opposing arguments	1
8585858984	allegory	a narrative in which character, action, and setting represent abstract concepts apart from the literal meaning of a story - the underlying meaning usually has a moral, social, religious, or political significance	2
8585877844	metonymy	the substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself	3
8585886961	qualifier	a statement that indicates the force of the arguement	4
8585889359	declarative sentence	makes a statement (sentence type)	5
8585893145	interrogative sentence	asks a question (sentence type)	6
8585895525	imperative sentence	gives a command (sentence type)	7
8585899802	exclamatory sentence	makes an interjection (sentence type)	8
8585903056	thesis	the central claim and overall purpose of a work	9
8585906749	bias	a predisposition or subjective opinion	10
8585909410	anecdote	a short account of an interesting or humorous incident, intended to illustrate or support a point	11
8585916111	analogy	a comparison to a directly parallel case; the process of drawing a comparison between two things based on a partial similarity of like features	12
8585925373	idiom	an expression that means something other than the literal meanings of its individual words	13
8585930539	tone	the voice and attitude the writer has chosen to project	14
8585935890	mood	the overall atmosphere of a work and the mood is how that atmosphere makes a reader feel	15
8585940660	antithesis	a contrast in language to bring out a contrast in ideas	16
8585947968	allusion	a brief reference to a person, event, or place - real or fictitious - or a work of art	17
8585953404	juxtaposition	placing two ideas side by side or close together	18
8586133756	anticipating audience response	the rhetorical technique of anticipating counterarguments and offering a refutation	19
8586139836	euphemism	substitutions of an inoffensive, indirect, or agreeable expression for a word or phrase perceived as socially unacceptable or harsh	20
8586148432	paradox	a phrase or statement that while seeming contradictory or absurd may actually be well founded or true. Used to attract attention or to secure emphasis	21
8586160691	cliche	a timeworn expression that through overuse has lost its power to evoke concrete images	22
8586164777	irony	the discrepancy between appearance and reality: verbal, situational, dramatic, and socratic	23
8586170248	oxymoron	a self-contradictory combination of words	24
8586173731	logos	appealing to logical reasoning and sound evidence	25
8586200843	ethos	appealing to the audience's shared values	26
8586176896	pathos	evoking and manipulating emotions	27
8586179059	aphorism	a concise or tersely phrased statement in principle, truth, or opinion. Often found in fields like law, politics, and art	28
8586209072	deductive reasoning	method of reasoning that moves from a general premise to a specific conclusion	29
8586214614	inductive reasoning	method of reasoning that moves from specific evidence to a general conclusion based on this evidence	30
8586222237	diction	choice of words in a work and an important element of style	31
8586227371	abstract language	language describing ideas and qualities	32
8586234302	concrete language	language describing observable, specific things	33
8586240094	colloquialism	words characteristic to familiar conversation	34
8586247884	denotation	specific, exact meaning of a word as defined	35
8586254339	connotation	the emotional implications that a word may carry	36
8586257473	polysyndeton	repetition of conjunctions in close succession	37
8586298810	synecdoche	part is used for a whole or the whole for a part	38
8586300705	satire	genre of writing used to critique or ridicule through humor or sarcasm	39
8586305200	syntax	how a sentence is constructed	40
8586313039	simple sentence	a complete sentence that is neither compound, nor complex ( 1 subject, 1 predicate)	41
8586317869	compound sentence	a sentence that contains 2 independent clauses joined by one or more dependent clauses	42
8586331649	complex sentence	an independent clause joined by one or more dependent clauses	43
8586322924	antecedent	the word to which a pronoun refers	44
8586336821	parallelism	when the arrangement of parts of a sentence is similarly phrased or constructed	45
8586342643	loose sentence	when a sentence is grammatically complete before its end	46
8586345842	periodic sentence	when a sentence is not grammatically complete before its end	47
8586348625	anaphora	the same expression is repeated at the beginning of 2 or more consecutive lines	48
8586351778	chiasmus	second half of an expression is balanced against the first, but with the parts reversed	49