Semester 2 AP Language Final Flashcards

6889985513	Ad hominem	attack the person not the argument	0
6889986431	Allegory	story with a hidden meaning	1
6889987675	Allusion	reference to a famous person or work	2
6889988722	Analogy	extended simile	3
6889988723	Anaphora	same expression is used at the beginning of a sentence	4
6889994453	Anecdote	short narrative to provide an illustration	5
6889995581	Antithesis	a direct contrast of structurally parallel work groupings	6
6890000653	Aphorism	a statement with general principle (a few words)	7
6890001811	Apostrophe	figure of speech when a speaker directly addresses an inanimate object	8
6890011238	Bathos	overdone pathos	9
6890011239	Chiasmus	sentence structure (ABBA)	10
6890012726	Loose sentence	sentence brought to the close before the end	11
6890014123	deductive reasoning	general to specific	12
6890019150	didactic	teaches a specific lesson or moral of correct behavior or thinking	13
6890020117	Dysphemism	a derogatory term instead of a neutral one "loony bin" for "mental facility"	14
6890031683	ellipsis	................	15
6890031698	Epiphany	when the character realizes something	16
6890033623	Epistrophe	beginning with the same word or phrase	17
6890035533	Ethos	ethical/ credibility appeal	18
6890037029	Euphanism	replaces with indirect words (passed away for died)	19
6890038408	Idiom	words in a different order than what makes sense (How do you do?)	20
6890056665	Imperative	extremely necessary; vitally important	21
6890058137	Incongruous	(adj) out of place, inappropriate, not harmonious	22
6890059681	Inductive reasoning	specific to general	23
6890061205	Litotes	deliberate use of understatement	24
6890065769	Logos	Appeal to logic	25
6890067618	Maxim	a general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying	26
6890070171	Metonymy	Using a single feature to represent the whole	27
6890071903	Non sequitur	something that does not logically follow	28
6890073018	Onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents. (Boom crash)	29
6890075883	Oxymoron	Two words that do not make sense together	30
6890083538	Paradox	A contradictory statement or proposition	31
6890086453	Parallelism	similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	32
6890087609	Parody	a work which imitates another in a ridiculous manner	33
6890088467	Pathos	Appeal to emotion	34
6890090300	Periodic sentence	The bulk of the sentence is at the end	35
6890092804	Personification	attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object or an idea	36
6890095152	Post hoc ergo propter hoc	after this therefore because of this	37
6890109901	Pun	A play on words	38
6890113628	Simile	Comparison using like or as	39
6890115956	Slippery slope	Goes to the extreme	40
6890127554	Syllogistic reasoning	If A=B and B=C, then A=C	41
6890131612	Synecdoche	A part that stands for a whole	42
6890133308	Synesthesia	a sound and an image (Loud Shirt and Blue Note)	43
6890136892	Understatement	understating something	44