AP Language Vocabulary Set 1 Flashcards

6334746116	Ad Hominem	Directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining. Ex: A lawyer attacking a person's character instead of the case.	0
6334746117	Alliteration	The repetition of the same sound or letter at the beginning of consecutive words or syllables. Ex: Sally sells seashells by the sea shore	1
6334944251	Active Voice	A clause whose subject expresses the main verb's agent. Ex: Harry ate six shrimp at dinner.	2
6335187626	Passive Voice	The noun or noun phrase that would be the object of an active sentence appears as the subject of a sentence or clause Ex: At dinner, six shrimp were eaten by Harry.	3
6335253121	Anastrophe	The inversion of the usual order of words or clauses Ex: Glistens the dew upon the morning grass.	4
6335253122	Asyndeton	Leaving out conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses Ex: I came, I saw, I conquered.	5
6335415381	Argue from Ignorance	A fallacy in informal logic. It asserts that a proposition is true because it has not yet been proved false Ex: The belief of a god	6
6335415382	Antithesis	Parallel structure that juxtaposes contrasting ideas Ex: Man proposes, God disposes	7
6335415383	Aphorism	A short, astute statement of a general truth Ex: A barking dog never bites	8
6335558387	Bandwagon Fallacy	The belief that an argument is valid because a majority of people accept it	9
6335558388	Apostrophe	An arrangement of words addressing a non-existent person or an abstract idea in such a way as if it were present and capable of understanding feelings Ex: Is this dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee! I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.	10
6335616136	Appositive	A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun	11
6335629758	Anadiplosis	The repetition of a word in successive clauses, the second clause begins with the ending of the previous clause Ex: The dog hates the cat, the cat hates the mouse, the mouse hates the fly	12
6335681572	Anaphora	The repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses Ex: O Lord rebuke me not ...., O Lord for I am..., O Lord heal me...	13
6336820360	Allusion	An indirect reference, often to another text or a historic event	14
6336820361	Analogy	An extended comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things	15
6336820362	Antimetabole	The repetition of words in an inverted order to sharpen a contrast Ex: Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country	16