AP English Language - ETAI Flashcards

4774937043	Allegory	a work that functions on a symbolic level	0
4774937044	Alliteration	use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse	1
4774937045	Allusion	a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art	2
4774937046	Analogy	drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect	3
4774937047	Anaphora	the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences	4
4774937048	Anecdote	short story of an amusing or interesting event	5
4774937049	Antecedent	a preceding occurrence or cause or event	6
4774937050	Antithesis	an opposition or contrast of ideas that is often expressed in balanced phrases or clauses	7
4774937051	Aphorism	a brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life	8
4774937054	Assonance	the repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words	9
4774937056	Attitude	the relationship an author has toward his or her subject, and/or his or her audience	10
4774937057	Character	person or animal that takes part in the action of a literary work	11
4774937058	Chiasmus	Arrangement of repeated thoughts in the pattern of X Y Y X. It is often short and summarizes a main idea.	12
4774937059	Cliche	an overused saying or idea	13
4774937060	Colloquialism	characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech	14
4774937061	Connotation	a meaning or association suggested by a word beyond its definition	15
4774937063	Deduction	reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)	16
4774937064	Denotation	the literal meaning of a word	17
4774937065	Dependent Clause	a clause in a complex sentence that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence and that functions within the sentence as a noun or adjective or adverb	18
4774937067	Diction	the author's choice of words	19
4774937068	Direct Object	the object that receives the direct action of the verb	20
4774937069	Dramatic Irony	occurs when another character(s) and/or the audience know more than one or more characters on stage about what is happening	21
4774937070	Ethos	the appeal of a text to the credibility and character of the speaker, writer, or narrator	22
4774937071	Euphemism	an indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant	23
4774937072	Extended Metaphor	the comparison between two things is continued beyond the first point of comparison; this extends and deepens a description.	24
4774937073	Genre	type or category of literary work (e.g., poetry, essay, short story, novel, drama)	25
4774937074	Homily	a sermon, or a moralistic lecture	26
4774937075	Cacophony	harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance	27
4774937076	Hyperbole	a figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion, make a point, or evoke humor	28
4774937077	Independent Clause	a clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence	29
4774937078	Indirect Object	the object that is the recipient or beneficiary of the action of the verb	30
4774937079	Invective	An intensely vehement, highly emotional verbal attack	31
4774937080	Logos	an appeal based on logic or reason	32
4774937081	Metaphor	a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity	33
4774937082	Metonymy	symbolism; one thing is used as a substitute for another with which it is closely identified (the White House)	34
4774937083	Mood	a prevailing emotional tone or general attitude	35
4774937084	Narration	the act of recounting the particulars of an event in the order of time or occurrence	36
4774937085	Narrative	consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story	37
4774937087	Oxymoron	a figure of speech consisting of two apparently contradictory terms	38
4774937088	Paradox	a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.	39
4774937089	Parallelism	refers to the grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity.	40
4774937090	Parody	a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way	41
4774937091	Pathos	quality in drama, speech, literature, music, or events that arouses a feeling of pity or sadness	42
4774937092	Personification	a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	43
4774937093	Point of View	the perspective from which the writer tells the story (1st, 2nd, 3rd person; omniscient, limited omniscient)	44
4774937094	Predicate	tells what the subject is or does	45
4774937095	Predicate Adjective	follows a linking verb and describes the subject	46
4774937096	Predicate Noun	follows a linking verb and defines or renames the subject	47
4774937097	Prounoun/Antecedent	the antecedent is the word the pronoun replaces	48
4774937098	Prose	ordinary speech or writing without rhyme or meter; referring to speech or writing other than verse	49
4774937099	Repetition	sounds, words, phrases, lines or stanzaz are repeated for emphasis	50
4774937100	Rhetoric	the art or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion	51
4774937101	Sarcasm	from the Greek meaning "to tear flesh," ___ involves bitter, caustic language that is meant to hurt or ridicule someone or something; it may use irony as a device	52
4774937102	Satire	language or writing that exposes follies or abuses by holding them up to ridicule	53
4774937103	Situational Irony	an outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected, the difference between what is expected to happen and what actually does	54
4774937104	Stream-of-consciousness	a narrative technique that places the reader in the mind and thought process of the narrator, no matter how random or spontaneous that may be	55
4774937105	Subject	tells whom or what the sentence is about	56
4774937106	Syllogism	deductive reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises	57
4774937107	Symbol	anything that stands for or represents something else	58
4774937108	Synecdoche	using a part of something to represent the whole thing	59
4774937109	Syntax	the rules for combining words into grammatically sensible sentences in a given language.	60
4774937110	Theme	central idea of a work of literature	61
4774937111	Thesis	an unproved statement put forward as a premise in an argument	62
4774937112	Third Person Limited	point of view which represents the feelings of only one character, presenting only the actions of all remaining characters	63
4774937113	Tone	the author's attitude toward the subject or audience, either stated or implied	64
4774937114	Understatement	the opposite of exaggeration; it is a technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended	65
4774937115	Verbal Irony	in this type of irony, the words literally state the opposite of the writer's true meaning	66