AP Language Summer Vocab Flashcards

9995711126	Allegory	narrative with multiple levels of meaning	0
9995715341	Alliteration	sequential repeating of similar initial sound	1
9995724116	Allusion	a literary, historical, religious, or mythological reference	2
9995730808	Anaphora	repetition of words at start of successive clauses	3
9995736505	Antithesis	juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced/parallel words	4
9995752093	Aphorism	concise statement designed to make a point/illustrate commonly had beliefs	5
9995760536	Apostrophe	address to something inanimate	6
9995766086	Assonance	repetition of identical/similar vowel sounds	7
9995778892	Asyndeton	style where conjunctions are omitted	8
9995783494	Attitude	tone, voice/mood of writing	9
9995784871	Begging the Question	ploy where an arguer sidesteps question/conflict, evading/ignoring question	10
9995792394	Canon	that which has been accepted as authentic	11
9995796500	Claim	an assertion of something as fact	12
9995813550	Colloquial	ordinary language, vernacular	13
9995823195	Conceit	prolonged comparison of two unlikely things	14
9995828736	Connotation	meaning suggested by a word, apart from its denotation, or explicit definition	15
9995839255	Consonance	repetition of two or more consonants	16
9995845555	Convention	accepted manner, model, or tradition	17
9995863596	Deductive Reasoning	argument in which specific statements/conclusions are drawn from general principles: movement from general to specific	18
9995873992	Dialect	language and speech idiosyncrasies of a specific area, region, or group of people	19
9995886879	Diction	specific word choice to persuade or convey tone	20
9995905623	Didactic	containing instructive purpose or a lesson	21
9995908928	Elegy	poetic lament upon death of a particular person	22
9995917808	Epistrophe	repetition of a phrase at the end of sentences	23
9995939847	Epitaph	praise for a dead person, usually on a headstone	24
9995947136	Ethos	appeal of text to credibility and character of writer	25
9995955130	Eulogy	speech or prose in praise of deceased person	26
9995962809	Euphemism	kinder way to give unpleasant information	27
9995969376	Expository	explains its own meaning or purpose	28
9995974996	Extended Metaphor	series of comparisons within a piece of writing	29
9995981586	Figurative Language/Figure of Speech	levels of meaning expressed through personification, metaphor, hyperbole, irony, oxymoron, litotes, etc.	30
9995989998	Genre	type or class of literature	31
9995993323	Homily	sermon, talk, lecture on moral or spiritual life	32
9996004528	Hyperbole	overstatement using exaggerated language	33
9996011465	Imagery	use of figurative language to evoke a feeling/idea, describe an object	34
9996019792	Inductive Reasoning	argument in which general conclusions are drawn from specific facts	35
9996027074	Inference	conclusion or proposition arrived at by considering facts/observations/data	36
9996037460	Irony	contrast between what is said and what is meant	37
9996043205	Jargon	specialized/technical language of a trade, profession, or similar group	38
9996051505	Juxtaposition	location of one thing adjacent to another	39
9996056029	Litote	figure of speech that emphasizes its subject by conscious statement	40
9996324718	Metaphor	One thing pictured as if it were something else, suggesting likeness; an implied comparison	41
9996324719	Metonymy	figure of speech in which an attribute/feature is used to name/designate something	42
9996324720	Mood	Feeling/ambience resulting from tone and writer/narrator's attitude/point of view	43
9996324721	Narrative	Mode of discourse that tells a story based on sequences of connected events, usually chronological	44
9996324722	Onomatopoeia	Word that sounds like what it describes	45
9996324723	Oxymoron	figure of speech combining two apparently contradictory elements, often humorous	46
9996324724	Paradox	Seemingly contradictory statement	47
9996324725	Pathos	Element in literature that stimulates pity or sorrow	48
9996324726	Personification	giving human qualities to abstract idea/nonhuman object	49
9996324727	Point of View	Relation of narrator/author to subject	50
9996324728	Prose	Ordinary form of written language, not poetry	51
9996324729	Realism	Describing nature/life without idealization	52
9996324730	Rebuttal/Refutation	Countering of anticipated arguments	53
9996324731	Rhetorical Question	question asked for stylistic effect, answer not expected	54
9996324732	Rhetoric	The art of using words to persuade	55
9996324733	Sarcasm	Verbal irony in which "praise" is actually critical	56
9996324734	Satire	Literary work that ridicules human failings	57
9996324735	Simile	Direct comparison using like or as	58
9996324736	Style	Distinctive manner of expression	59
9996324737	Symbolism	Element of literary work that figuratively stands for something else	60
9996324738	Synecdoche	When a part is used to signify a whole	61
9996324739	Syntax	Sentence structure	62
9996324740	Theme	Central or dominant idea or focus of a work	63
9996324741	Tone	Attitude literary work takes toward its subject/theme	64
9996324742	Voice	source of the words of the story	65
10942333175	Polysyndeton	The deliberate use of a series of conjunctions.	66