AP Language Terms #2 Flashcards

4873302639	didactic	Writing or speech that has an instructive purpose or a lesson; often associated with a dry, pompous presentation	0
4873308056	dialect	The language and speech idiosyncrasies of a specific area, region, or group	1
4873309323	elegy	A poem or prose that laments, or meditates upon the death of a person	2
4873309324	epistrophe	In rhetoric, the repetition of a phrase at the end of successive sentences	3
4873310690	epitaph	Writing in praise of a dead person, most often inscribed upon a headstone	4
4873311956	eulogy	A speech or written passage in praise of a person; an oration in honor of a deceased person	5
4873311957	homily	A sermon, but more contemporary uses include any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual life	6
4873313830	isocolon	Parallel structure in which the parallel elements are similar not only in grammatical structure, but also in length	7
4873314958	jargon	Specialized or technical language of a trade, profession, or similar group	8
4873314959	juxtaposition	The location of one thing adjacent to another to create an effect, reveal an attitude, or accomplish some other purpose	9
4873317385	litotes	A figure of speech that emphasizes its subject by conscious understatement	10
4873317386	metonymy	A figure of speech in which an attribute or commonly associated feature is used to name or designate	11
4873321307	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements	12
4873322985	paradox	A statement that seems contradictory but may probably be true	13
4873324806	parallel structure	The use of similar forms in writing for nouns, verbs, phrases, or thoughts. In prose, recurrent syntactical similarity where several parts of a sentence or several sentences are expressed alike to show that their ideas are equal in importance.	14