ap language, set 5 Flashcards

7439036082	leptologia	using careful languagw to obfuscate ex: "that depends on what your definition of 'is' is"	0
7439036083	litotes	a form of understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite	1
7439036084	logos	logical appeal	2
7439036085	loose sentence	one in which the main clause comes first, followed by further dependent grammatical units	3
7439036086	malapropism	humorous misuse of a word	4
7439036087	maxim	an established principle; a truth or rule of conduct	5
7439036088	metanoia	self-editing figure	6
7439036089	metaphor	comparison not using like or as	7
7439036090	metastasis	a figure of thought that skips over an awkward matter ex: your hair looks so nice, by the way i got arrested, wow i love that shirt	8
7439036091	metonymy	the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant ex: the throne is queen of england	9
7439036092	mood	how the reader feels about a piece while reading	10
7439036093	motif	a recurring theme, subject, or idea throughout a piece	11
7439036094	narrative	the telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events	12
7439036095	neologism	new word or expression	13
7439036096	non sequitur	a statement or idea that fails to follow logically from the one before	14
7439036097	onomatopoeia	word that imitates sound it represents	15
7439036098	oxymoron	a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction	16
7439036099	paradigm	a rule that arises from patterns	17
7439036100	paradox	a statement that contradicts itself	18
7439036101	paralipsis	mentioning something by saying you're not gonna mention it ex: i'm not gonna talk about how bad your hair is right now	19