Ap Language Vocabulary list Flashcards

10252413644	AUTHORITY	the power to determine, someone who has the right to control	0
10252413645	AUDIENCE	spectator that is listening to a speech, movie, song etc	1
10252415349	BACKING	having evidence to back up your claim or argrument	2
10252426463	ASSERTION	A positve statement	3
10252427731	MEANS VS. END	the sole puropse of achieving something	4
10252430542	DEDUCTIVE REASONING	using logic to draw a conclusion	5
10252457959	INDUCTIVE REASONING	Having lots of data to draw a conclusion	6
10252459016	ALLITERATION	Repetition of a constant sound	7
10252459017	TONE	The attitude used in writing or when someone is speaking	8
10252476132	DICTION	A writer's or speaker's choice of words	9
10305483819	Denotation	Literal meaning of a word	10
10305485997	Connotation	All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests	11
10305491806	Colloquial	Conversational	12
10305492451	Formal	following rules or customs, often in an exact and proper way	13
10305493387	Informal	Casual having a relaxed, friendly, or unofficial style, manner, or nature.	14
10305496074	Concrete	Specific definite or specific; real, tangible	15
10305500151	Abstract	Hard to understand	16
10305503158	DETAIL	Facts revealed by the author or speaker that support the attitude or tone in the work	17
10305511496	Mood	How the reader feels about the text while reading.	18
10305512267	Imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	19
10305513340	Setting	The time and place of a story	20
10305516824	Figurative Language	Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.	21
10305517632	Allusion	A reference to another work of literature, person, or event	22
10305518464	Simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	23
10305519033	Metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	24
10305521227	Personification	the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea	25
10305521825	Hyperbole	Exaggeration	26
10305522694	Understatement	A statement that says less than what is meant	27
10305525727	Paradox	A statement that contradicts itself	28
10305528127	Verbal Irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	29
10305528570	Analogy	A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way	30
10305529482	Anecdote	a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person	31
10305532024	Metonymy	substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it	32
10305533481	Synecdoche	using one part of an object to represent the entire object	33
10305543746	RHETORICAL MODES/ MODES OF DISCLOSURE	exposition, description, narration, argumentation	34
10305544146	Exemplification	Providing examples in service of a point.	35
10305549840	Cause & Effect	The reason something happens and the result of it happening.	36
10305551085	Description	A spoken or written summary of observations	37
10305554295	Process Analysis	Explains how something works, how to do something, or how something was done	38
10305554842	Narration	writing that tells a story Retelling an event or series of events	39
10305556454	Comparison & Contrast	similarities and differences	40
10305556937	Exposition	Background information presented in a literary work.	41
10305557695	Argrumentation	the process of developing or presenting an argument	42
10305565788	Repetittion	Something repeating	43
10305567544	POINT OF VIEW	the vantage point from which the writer tells the story.	44
10305568788	First Person	"I" and "Me" standpoint. Personal perspective.	45
10305569928	Second Person	Told from the reader's point of view, using "you"	46
10305570355	Third Person	Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer	47
10305570684	Subjective	Based on personal opinions, feelings, and attitudes; not objective	48
10305574302	Objective	omething that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish	49
10305601492	SYNTAX	THE STRUCTURE OF A PHRASE OR SENTENCE.	50
10305602753	Anaphora	the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses	51
10305604802	Antithesis	Direct opposite	52
10305605952	Asyndeton	A construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions	53
10305614041	Polysyndeton	Deliberate use of many conjunctions	54
10305615026	Parallel Structure	the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures	55
10305639625	Periodic Structure	A sentence in which the main clause or predicate is withheld until the end.	56
10305641209	Rhetorical Question	a question asked for an effect, not actually requiring an answer	57
10305643924	Inverted Syntax	reversing the normal word order of a sentence	58