AP Language Terms Flashcards

7753801847	Allegory	A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself.	0
7753801848	Alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds	1
7753801849	Allusion	A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art	2
7753801850	Analogy	A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them.	3
7753801851	Anecdote	A brief narrative that focuses on a particular incident or event.	4
7753801852	Antecedent	The word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun.	5
7753801853	Aphorism	a concise statement of a truth or principle	6
7753801854	Apostrophe	An address to a dead or absent person, or personification as if he or she were present	7
7753801855	Clause	A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb.	8
7753801856	Diction	A writer's or speaker's choice of words	9
7753801857	Didactic	having the primary purpose of teaching or instructing	10
7753801858	Euphemism	An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant	11
7753801859	Hyperbole	exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.	12
7753801860	Inference	A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning	13
7753801861	Invective	an emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language.	14
7753801862	Juxtaposition	the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect	15
7753801863	Metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	16
7753801864	Metonymy	substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it	17
7753801865	Paradox	a statement that seems contradictory but is actually true	18
7753801866	Parallelism	similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	19
7753801867	Parody	a work which imitates another in a ridiculous manner	20
7753801868	Personification	the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea	21
7753801869	point of view	The perspective from which a story is told	22
7753801870	Prose	One of the major divisions of genre, prose refers to fiction and nonfiction, including all its forms	23
7753801871	Rhetoric	The art of using language effectively and persuasively	24
7753801872	rhetorical appeal	The persuasive device by which a writer tries to sway the audience's attention and response to any given work	25
7753801873	Logos	Appeal to logic	26
7753801874	Ethos	Credibility	27
7753801875	Pathos	appeal to emotion	28
7753801876	Rhetorical modes	describes the variety, the conventions, and the purposes of the major kinds of writing	29
7753801877	Exposition	a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory	30
7753801878	Argumentation	exploration of a problem by investigating all sides of it; persuasion through reason	31
7753801879	Description	a statement that depicts a person, event, idea, or the like with clarity and vividness	32
7753801880	Narration	retelling an event or series of events	33
7753801881	rhetorical question	A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer	34
7753801882	Satire	using humor to expose something or someone to ridicule	35
7753801883	Simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	36
7753801884	Syllogism	a form of deductive reasoning with a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion	37
7753801885	symbol/symbolism	Generally, anything that represents itself and stands for something else.	38
7753801886	Synesthesia	when one kind of sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another	39
7753801887	Syntax	The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.	40
7753801888	Theme	Central idea of a work of literature	41
7753801889	Tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	42
7753801890	Understatement	The ironic minimizing of fact, presents something as less significant than it is.	43