AP Language Vocab Flashcards

10300521837	Authority	Someone who hold power over another person; a leader	0
10300521838	Audience		1
10300521839	Backing	Support or evidence for a claim in an argument	2
10300521840	Assertion	A declaration or statement	3
10300521841	Means vs Ends	How a goal is achieved	4
10300521842	Deductive reasoning	A type of logic in which specific results are predicted from a general premise.	5
10300521843	Inductive reasoning	A type of logic in which generalizations are based on a large number of specific observations.	6
10300521844	Alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds	7
10300521845	Tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	8
10300521846	Diction	Word choice	9
10300521847	Denotation	The dictionary definition of a word	10
10300521848	Connotation	All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests	11
10300521849	Colloquial	Characteristic of ordinary conversation rather than formal speech or writing	12
10300521850	Formal	following rules or customs, often in an exact and proper way	13
10300521851	Informal	Casual	14
10300521852	Concrete	existing in a material or physical form; real or solid; not abstract.	15
10300521853	Abstract	existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence.	16
10300521854	Detail	Facts revealed by the author or speaker that support the attitude or tone in the work	17
10300521855	Mood	Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader	18
10300521856	Imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	19
10300521857	Setting	The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.	20
10300521858	Figurative language	Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling.	21
10300521859	Allusion	A reference to another work of literature, person, or event	22
10300521860	Simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	23
10300521861	Metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	24
10300521862	Personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	25
10300521863	Hyperbole	Exaggeration	26
10300521864	Understatement	the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.	27
10300521865	Paradox	a contradiction or dilemma	28
10300521866	Verbal Irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	29
10300521867	Analogy	A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way	30
10300521868	Anecdote	a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person	31
10300521869	Metonymy	the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant	32
10300521870	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	33
10300521871	Rhetorical modes/modes of discourse	describe the variety, conventions, and purposes of the major kinds of language-based communication, particularly writing and speaking.	34
10300521872	Exemplification	Providing examples in service of a point.	35
10300521873	Cause/Effect	the principle of causation	36
10300521874	Description	a spoken or written representation or account of a person, object, or event	37
10300521875	Process Analysis	a method of paragraph or essay development by which a writer explains step by step how something is done or how to do something	38
10300521876	Narration	the telling of a story in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama; one of the four modes of discourse	39
10300521877	Comparison/Contrast	Pointing out similarities and/or differences	40
10300521878	Exposition	a comprehensive description and explanation of an idea or theory.	41
10300521879	Argumentation	exploring a problem by examining all sides of it; persuasion through reason	42
10300521880	Repetition	Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis	43
10300521881	Point of view	The perspective from which a story is told	44
10300521882	First Person	The narrators´ Point of view	45
10300521883	Second Person	The narrator tells a listener what he/she has done or said, using the personal pronoun "you."	46
10300521884	Third Person	Point of view in which the narrator is outside of the story - an observer	47
10300521885	Subjective	based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions	48
10300521886	Objective	unbiased; not subjective	49
10300521887	Syntax	Sentence structure	50
10300521888	Anaphora	the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses	51
10300521889	Antithesis	Direct opposite	52
10300521890	Asyndeton	A construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions	53
10300521891	Polysyndeton	Deliberate use of many conjunctions	54
10300521892	Parallel sentence	repetition of a chosen grammatical form within a sentence	55
10300521893	Periodic sentence	Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end	56
10300521894	Rhetorical question	a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer	57
10300521895	Inverted syntax	A literary device that changes the structure of sentences	58