AP Language Vocab Flashcards

10249883830	AUTHORITY	the right to control, command, or determine.	0
10249883831	AUDIENCE	group of spectators at a public event	1
10249884876	BACKING	support, strengthen, or protect	2
10249886030	ASSERTION	positive statement or declaration, often without support or reason	3
10249887046	MEANS VS. ENDS	carried out for the sole purpose of achieving something else	4
10249887047	DEDUCTIVE REASONING	reasoning from one or more statements to reach a logically certain conclusion	5
10249890489	INDUCTIVE REASONING	reasoning in which the premises are viewed as supplying some evidence for the truth of the conclusion	6
10249890490	ALLITERATION	occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words	7
10249891666	TONE	general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation, etc.	8
10249891676	DICTION	style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words	9
10249893169	Denotation	explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression	10
10249893170	Connotation	secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning	11
10249894801	Colloquial	characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal	12
10249894802	Formal	accordance with the usual requirements, customs, etc.; conventional	13
10249894803	Informal	without formality or ceremony; casual	14
10249896653	Concrete	constituting an actual thing or instance; real	15
10249896654	Abstract	thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances	16
10249896655	Detail	attention to or treatment of a subject in individual or minute parts	17
10249899207	Mood	a state or quality of feeling at a particular time	18
10249899208	Imagery	formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively	19
10249902792	Setting	surroundings or environment of anything	20
10249902793	FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE	figures of speech to be more effective, persuasive, and impactful	21
10249903997	Allusion	making of a casual or indirect reference to something	22
10249903998	Simile	figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared	23
10249903999	Metaphor	figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance	24
10249905271	Personification	attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure	25
10249905272	Hyperbole	obvious and intentional exaggeration.	26
10249905273	Understatement	act or an instance of understating, or representing in a weak or restrained way that is not borne out by the facts	27
10249906607	Paradox	statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth	28
10249906608	Verbal Irony	a person says or writes one thing and means another	29
10249909559	Analogy	similarity or comparability	30
10249909560	Anecdote	short account of a particular incident or event	31
10249909561	Metonymy	figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part	32
10249910801	Synecdoche	figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special	33
10249911671	RHETORICAL MODES/ MODES OF DISCOURSE	variety, conventions, and purposes of the major kinds of language-based communication, particularly writing and speaking	34
10249911672	Exemplification	illustration or example	35
10249913881	Cause/Effect	actions or events such that one or more are the result of the other or others	36
10249913882	Description	statement, picture in words, or account that describes; descriptive representation	37
10249913883	Process Analysis	method of paragraph or essay development by which a writer explains step by step how something is done	38
10249915096	Narration	an account, story, or narrative.	39
10249917112	Comparison/Contrast	differences and similarities	40
10249917113	Exposition	act of expounding, setting forth, or explaining	41
10249917114	Argumentation	process of developing or presenting an argument; reasoning	42
10249919031	Repetition	repeated utterance; reiteration.	43
10249919032	POINT OF VIEW	specified or stated manner of consideration or appraisal; standpoint	44
10249920278	First Person	grammatical person used by a speaker in statements referring to himself or herself	45
10249920279	Second Person	grammatical person used by the speaker of an utterance in referring to the one	46
10249921624	Third Person	grammatical person used by the speaker of an utterance in referring to anyone or anything other than the speaker or the one	47
10249921625	Subjective	pertaining to or characteristic of an individual; personal; individual	48
10249921634	Objective	something that one's efforts or actions are intended to attain or accomplish	49
10249925159	SYNTAX	the rules or patterns so studied	50
10249925160	Anaphora	repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences	51
10249925161	Antithesis	opposition; contrast	52
10249926787	Asyndeton	omission of conjunctions	53
10249926788	Polysyndeton	use of a number of conjunctions in close succession	54
10249926971	Parallel sentence	repetition of the same pattern of words or phrases within a sentence or passage to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance	55
10249927957	Periodic sentence	main clause or predicate at the end	56
10249927958	Rhetorical question	question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer	57
10249927959	Inverted syntax	Subject Verb Object	58