AP Language Terms Flashcards

9942407446	Active Voice	Expresses an action done by its subject	0
9942407447	Allegory	The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning	1
9942407448	Alliteration	The repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words	2
9942407449	Allusion	A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art	3
9942407450	Ambiguity	The multiple meaning, either intention or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage	4
9942407451	Amplification	Repeats a word or expression for emphasis	5
9942407452	Anagram	A word or phrase formed from another word or phrase by changing the order of the letters	6
9942407453	Analogy	A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them	7
9942407454	Anaphora	Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines	8
9942407455	Antecedent	The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun	9
9942407456	Aphorism	A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or moral principle	10
9942407457	Apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction	11
9942407458	Assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds	12
9942407459	Atmosphere	The emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work, established party by the setting and partly by the author's choice of objects that are described	13
9942407460	Cacophony	The use of words with sharp, harsh, hissing, and unmelodious sounds	14
9942407461	Caesura	A natural pause or break in a line of poetry, usually near the middle of the line	15
9942407462	Characterization	The act of creating and developing a character	16
9942407463	Chiasmus	A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed	17
9942407464	Clause	A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and verb	18
9942407465	Colloquial	The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing	19
9942407466	Complex Sentence	A sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause	20
9942407467	Compound Sentence	A sentence with two or more coordinate independent clauses, often joined by one or more conjunctions	21
9942407468	Conceit	A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects	22
9942407469	Conflict	A serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one.	23
9942407470	Connotation	The non-literal, associative meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning	24
9942407471	Consonance	Repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity	25
9942407472	Deduction	A method of reasoning in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the stated premises	26
9942407473	Denotation	The strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color	27
9942407474	Diction	Refers to the writer's word choices, especially with regard to their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness	28
9942407475	Didactic	With the primary aim of teaching or instruction, especially the teaching of moral or ethical principles	29
9942407476	Emphatic Order	Ideas arranged in accordance with their importance	30
9942407477	Emulation	Effort or desire to equal or surpass another	31
9942407478	Epithet	Any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe an actual or attributed quality	32
9942407479	Euphemism	A more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept, sometimes used to adhere to social standards	33
9942407480	Euphony	A succession of harmonious sounds	34
9942407481	Extender Metaphor	A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work	35
9942407482	Figurative Language	Writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid	36
9942407483	Figure of Speech	A device used to produce figurative language	37
9942407484	Flashback	Present action is temporarily interrupted so that past events can be described	38
9942407485	Foreshadowing	The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot	39
9942407486	Genre	The major category into which a literary work fits	40
9942407487	Homily	Serious talk, lecture, or speech involving moral or spiritual advice	41
9942407488	Hyperbole	A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement	42
9942407489	Imagery	The sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions	43
9942407490	Imperative	Urgent; required; necessary	44
9942407491	Indicative	Showing, signifying, or pointing out; expressive or suggestive	45
9942407492	Induction	The process that moves from a given series of specifics to a generalization	46
9942407493	Internal Rhyme	A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line	47
9942407494	Inversion	Inverted order of words in a sentence	48
9942407496	Irony	The contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant	49
9942407497	Juxtaposition	Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts	50
9942407498	Metaphor	A figure of speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things or the substitution of one for the other, suggesting similarity	51
9942407499	Metonymy	A figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it	52
9942407500	Mood	The speaker's attitude or the atmosphere created by a work	53
9942407501	Motif	A recurring theme, subject or idea	54
9942407502	Narrative Technique	The "style" of the story, concentrate on the writer's order of events and details	55
9942407503	Negative Capability	The ability to accept ambiguity and paradox without having to resolve them	56
9942407504	Nemesis	Something causing pain or harm; enemy	57
9942407505	Onomatopoeia	A figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words	58
9942407506	Oxymoron	A figure of speech wherein the author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox	59
9942407507	Paradox	A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity	60
9942407508	Parallelism	The grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity	61
9942407509	Parody	A work that closely imitates the style or context of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule	62
9942407510	Passive Voice	The doer of the object is not the subject	63
9942407511	Pedantic	An adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish	64
9942407512	Periodic Sentence	A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end	65
9942407513	Personification	A figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions	66
9942407514	Plot	Sequence of events in a story	67
9942407515	Point of View	The perspective from which a story is told	68
9942407516	Polysyndeton	The use of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural	69
9942407517	Portmanteau	A new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings	70
9942407518	Predicate	Tells something about the subject	71
9942407519	Prose	Fiction or nonfiction works that are written in ordinary language	72
9942407520	Repetition	The duplication of any element of language	73
9942407521	Rhetoric	Greek for "orator;" the principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively	74
9942407522	Rhetorical Modes	The variety, conventions, and purposes of the major kinds of writing	75
9942407523	Rhyme	Repetition of sounds at the end of words	76
9942407524	Rhyme Scheme	A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem	77
9942407525	Rhythm	Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables	78
9942407526	Sarcasm	Greek for "to tear flesh;" bitter, caustic language that is meant to hurt or ridicule someone or something	79
9942407527	Satire	A work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule	80
9942407528	Semantics	The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words, heir historical and psychological development, their connotations, and their relation to one another	81
9942407529	Setting	The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs	82
9942407530	Simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	83
9942407531	Simple Sentence	A sentence consisting of one independent clause and no dependent clause	84
9942407532	Specificity	Exactness	85
9942407533	Stanza	A group of lines in a poem	86
9942407534	Style	An evaluation of the sum of the choices an author makes in blending diction, syntax, figurative language, and other literary devices	87
9942407535	Subject Complement	The word or clause that follows a linking verb and complements, or completes, the subject of the sentence by either renaming it or describing it	88
9942407536	Subjunctive	A grammatical form of verbs implying hypothetical action of condition	89
9942407537	Subordinate Clause	Does not express a complete thought and cannot stand alone as a sentence	90
9942407538	Syllogism	Greek for "reckoning together;" a deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion	91
9942407539	Symbol	Anything that represents something else	92
9942407540	Synecdoche	A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	93
9942407541	Syntax	The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences	94
9942407542	Theme	The central idea or message of a work; the insight it offers into life	95
9942407543	Thesis	The sentence or group of sentences that directly expresses the author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or proposition	96
9942407544	Tone	The author's attitude toward his or her material, the audience, or both	97
9942407545	Transition	A word or phrase that links different ideas	98
9942407546	Understatement	The ironic minimizing of fact; presenting something as less significant than it is	99
9942407547	Verse	A single line of poetry	100
9942407548	Voice	A writer's distinctive use of language	101