AP language Terms Flashcards

9870763960	antithesis	often found in parallel constructions, 2 opposite or contrasting words, phrases and clauses ex: it was the best of times; it was the worst of times	0
9703465110	Lexicon	specialized Vocabulary	1
9703469131	Prose	Written in ordinary language that resembles everyday speech; not poetry	2
9703476480	Rhetoric	The principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuavely	3
9703497037	Rhetorical Features, Devices, Resources of Language, Rhetorical Strategies	Figures of speech, syntax, sentence structure, diction, and other stylistic elements that are used to produce a particular artistic effect	4
9703527841	Genre	The major category in which a work of literature is catorigorized.	5
9703538796	Generic Conventions	The typical characteristics that define a genre	6
9703549443	Logos	Logical, (Facts, Reasoning)	7
9703553912	Pathos	Emotional, (Feelings)	8
9703561050	Ethos	Ethical, (Credibility, Trustworthiness)	9
9703609143	Made of Discourse	What type/ Way that the the imformation is presented or written	10
9703622641	Rheotrical Modes/ Expository Paterns	How the writting is organized exposition, argumetation, description, narrative, comparison/ contrast, divison and classifacation	11
9703640339	Thesis/Purpose	Sentences that directly explain the authors opinion, purpose, meaning or proposition or emotion regarding the subject; short and clear	12
9703684919	Topic/ attitude	A writers intellectual position or emotion regarding the subject; explain the language of attitude	13
9703704528	Objective	Non-biased, non-opinonated, factual	14
9703710760	Subjective	Reflecting a bias or opinion	15
9703718767	Infer/inference	to draw a conclusion from information presented to us	16
9703721501	Concrete detail	refer to specific types of details	17
9703748569	Noun	a word that names	18
9703750931	Concrete Noun	things that you can not actually touch or experense	19
9703756946	Abstract Noun	Ideas, feelings, concepts, qualities, states of being	20
9703765570	Proper noun	John, Mary, Woodmont	21
9703772492	Common Noun	boy, girl, school	22
9703774746	Verb	word that expresses action or helps make a statement	23
9703781788	Action Verb	expresses mental or physical action	24
9703789056	Linking Verb	makes a statement by connecting the subject with a word that describes	25
9703793049	Pronoun	a word used in place of one or more nouns. It may stand for a person , place or thing	26
9703824000	Adjective	modify or describes a noun or pronoun	27
9703827947	Adverb	Modify or describe a verb, an adjective, or another adverb	28
9703833715	Preposition	A word that relates a noun or pronoun to another word in a sentence	29
9703839292	Conjunction	a word that joins words or groups of words	30
9703846338	What does Fan Boy stand for?	For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So	31
9703855541	Interjections	an exclamartory word that expresses action	32
9703868321	Narative	the telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events	33
9703884904	Narrative Devices	The tools of a story teller	34
9703887580	Narrative Techniques	The writers style of telling the story	35
9703896242	Anecdote	A brief recounting of a relevant episode, inserted to develop a point or add hummor	36
9703907310	Setting	the time and place in which a story occurs	37
9703913674	Atmosphere	The emotional mood that is created by a literary work	38
9703923273	Narrative Options	Flashback, In media res, chronological, foreshadowing, stream of consciousness	39
9703938235	Flashback	Telling a story from along time ago	40
9869836080	In media res	you start the stoary in the middle of the action	41
9869838885	chronological order	story is told in the order it hapened	42
9869846192	Forshadowing	hints about what will happen later	43
9869855813	Stream of consciounsness	the writter trys to replicate their thoughts	44
9869863044	frame narration	when you have a story within a story	45
9869870805	Imagery	describing in descriptive details	46
9869874708	Pacing	the speed of a authors writting	47
9869884487	Pronoun/antecedent	the word, phrase, or clause refered to by a pronouon	48
9869884488	dialouge	conversations between characters which their actuall words are quoted	49
9869910450	verbs	express an action	50
9869914177	being verbs	can serve as either helping or linking verbs ex: be, have, may, can	51
9869922034	Helping verbs	combine with other verb forms to indicate time, possibility, necessity, and other kind of meanings Ex: Chris can run after his surgery	52
9869951622	Linking verbs	a verb which connects a subject to its predict without expressing an action, used to describe its subject ex: be,seem,appear,become, grow, stay	53
9869972545	Active verb	the subject of the sentece is taking action ex: Mrs.Whitmire threw the desk	54
9869983011	Passive Verb	the subject of the sentence is being acted on ex: the desk was thrown across the room	55
9869999046	Predict Adjectives	a type of subject complement follows a linking verb and modifies or describes the subject Ex: Ms. Whitmire is nice	56
9870022108	Predicit nominative	renames the subject ex: Mrs. Whitmire is a teacher	57
9870031550	Verbal	a form of verb that is used as non adjective or adverb	58
9870035243	Participle	a verb used as a adjective ex: strolling shoppers fill the mall	59
9870043411	Gerund	a -ing verb used as a noun ex: teaching is very rewarding	60
9870055957	Infinitives	the plain form of a verb plus to ex: to hide, to sleep, to eat	61
9870063098	Appositive	a noun (or pronoun) that renames another noun ex: john, my boyfriend, made me a sandwhich	62
9870089852	diction	word choice	63
9870089853	annotation	the strict litteral, dictionary definition of a word	64
9870098216	connotation	the feelings/ ideas associated with a word, the implied or suggested meaning	65
9870104546	semantics	the branch of linguistics that studies the meanings of words	66
9870109073	Jargon	the diction used by a small group which practices a similar profession or activity	67
9870117984	Zeugma	a figure os speech in which a word, usually a verb or adjective, applies to more than one noun blending grammar together ex:John and his license expired last week	68
9870140774	Colloquialism	use of slang or informalities in speech or writting Ex: yall, shook	69
9870151945	Malapropism	a use of incorrect word in place of a similar sounding word that results in a nonsensical anf humrous expression ex:Our watch, sir, have indeed comprehended two auspicious persons" - supposed to be aprehended	70
9870185940	invective	a long, emotionally violent attack using strong abusive language ex: you're a jerk	71
9870206203	ambiguity	multiple meanings of a word ex: did you see her dress	72
9870212023	Euphemism	less offensive substitue ex: deceased instead of died	73
9870235385	imperative sentence	comand	74
9870240636	declarative sentence	statement	75
9870243543	interrogative sentence	question	76
9870245833	main clause	has a subject and a predicate and can stand alone as a sentence ex: bob may buy a car today	77
9870264609	subordinating clause	has a subject and a predicates and can not and alone as a sentence ex: if he finds one	78
9870283020	simple sentence	may have a compound subject, a compound predicate or both ex: bob may buy a car today	79
9870292286	compound sentence	has 2 or more main clauses ex: bob may buy a car today, but he will have to pay the ticket price	80
9870335225	complex sentences	has one subordinate clause an done main clause ex: if they find one they like, bob and mary will buy a car today	81
9870346001	compound complex senteces	has more than one main clause and at least one subordinate clause ex: if they find one they like, bob and mary may buy a car today, and bob will get their old one	82
9870372423	coordination	using sentence structure to show equal importance between ideas ex:John has been teaching for 20 years and he has been named teacher of the year twice	83
9870389540	subordination	using sentence structure to make one idea less important than another Ex:Although John has been teaching for 20 years, he has been named teacher of the year twice	84
9870412769	loose sentence	a type of sentence in whih the main clause comes first, followed by dependent gramatical phrases and clauses ex: the boy chased the ball as it bounced across the street, rolled into the neighbors yard and bounced infront if spices dog house	85
9870446010	periodic sentence	a sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end ex: sad and silent, driving for miles, settling into a worn and cramped motel room, he realizes that he no longer has a home	86
9870478782	figures of speech/ tropes	a device used to produce figurative language	87
9870486367	metaphor	a word or phrase comparing 2 things not using like or as	88
9870493719	similie	comparing 2 things using like, as, or, if or than	89
9870498307	personafacation	giving a non living things living characteristics	90
9870502693	hyperbole	exaggerated statement not ment to be taken litteraly	91
9870509119	conceit	an extended metaphor that compares 2 very disimilar things ex: spill the beans	92
9870517358	allegory	a story, poem or picture that can be interpreted to reveal hidden meaning ex: the tortoise and the frog	93
9870534440	understatment	when writers intentionally make a situation seen less important than it really is	94
9870540639	litotes	uses negative terms to express a positive statement	95
9870547946	metonymy	replases the name of a thing with the name of something its closley related to ex: coke-all soda	96
9870558198	synecdoche	refers to a thing by the name of one of ots parts ex: wheels instead of car	97
9870568672	oxymoron	when 2 opposite words appear in a conjunction ex: Jumbo shrimp	98
9870579135	Analogy	a comparison between 2 things typically for the purpose of explanation	99
9870595110	Apostrophe	a figure of speech in which an absent person or personified object is adressed by speaker ex: twinkle twinkle little star	100
9870613448	Allusion	a direct or indirect reference to something which is comminly known ex: don't go all stalin on me	101
9870623028	homily	means sermon it can include any serious, talk, speech, ot lecture involving moral or spiritual advice	102
9870634148	synesthia	the practice of associating 2 or more different senses in one image ex:taste of pain	103
9870644617	Wit	intellectually amusing language that suprises and delights	104
9870657693	Aphorism	a statement of known authorship that expresses a general truth or moral principle ex: better safe than sorry	105
9870669901	rhetorical question	question not ment to be answered but make you think	106
9870678821	consonance	formed by repeatinf the same sound in the middle or end of a word	107
9870683014	assonance	the repetation of vowel sounds in the middle of neighboring words	108
9870688843	irony	the contrast between what is stated and what is ment	109
9870693229	dramatic iorny	when the audience knows something the character does'nt	110
9870701013	verbal iorny	when a person says the opposite of what they mean	111
9870705259	situational iorny	when the event of the plot turn out differently than expected	112
9870718872	Paradox	a staement that appears to be self contradictory or oppsed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth	113
9870732584	Anecdate	a breif recounting of a relevant episode of experience	114
9870743747	syntax	the way the authour chooses to join words into phrases, clauses and sentences	115
9870749987	parallesim	sentece construction which places equal gramatical constructions near each other or repeats identical gramatical patterns	116
9870779521	asyndeton	the elimination of conjunctions between phrases and clauses ex: without looking, without making a sound, without talking	117
9870791499	polysendeton	using conjunction to seperate all of the items in a series ex: I walked the dog, and fed the cat, and washed the goat, and fed the cows	118
9870801193	anaphora	repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of 2 or more sentences or clause in a row	119
9870822613	Chaismus	the same words are used twice in succession, but the second time, the order is reversed ex:fair is foul and foul is fair	120
9870830425	Epiphora	a word or phrase is repeated at the end of successive clauses ex: i am an american, he is an american, and everybody here is an american	121
9870858167	logical fallacy	an error in reasoning often at frst to make sense but upon futhur examination are recognized as deceptive and illogical	122
9870875277	appealing to pitty	often unrelated to the issue in question, designed to distract attention from other factors which should be considered	123
9870893266	Appealing to prejudice	appealing to the audience values often a distraction from the real issue	124
9870902991	Appealing to tradition	appeals to maintain history and not change the accepted ways	125
9870910225	Argument from analogy	uses an analogy to discus 2 different situations usually ignors important differences between 2 things being compared sometimes include	126
9870932504	Ad hominem	making a personal attack on the opponet	127
9870942097	appeal to doubtful authority	uses references to famous people who have no expertise	128
9870948329	post hoc reasoning	also false causation, assuming that one event caused another just because it happened before it	129
9870964893	begging the question	also circular reasoning restating the premise you are trying to prove	130
9870970943	equivocating	using vauge or ambiguos langauge to mislead audience	131
9870984438	Ignoring the question	talking about something else instead of real issues	132
9870987758	false dilema	suggesting that only 2 alternatives exist when there are actually more	133
9870996012	non sequitor	a "does" not follow conclusion	134
9871003305	slippery slope	one step will ineviably lead to an extremly undesirable end	135
9871010328	bandwagon	everyone else is doing it, you should to	136