AP Language- "Satire-Wit" Flashcards

6190699553	Satire	A work that targets human voices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule. Style of writing. Effects are varied, depending on authors goal, but usually is thought provoking and insightful about the human condition	0
6190699554	Semantics	The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words, their historical and psychological development, their connotations, and their relation to another	1
6190699555	Style	1. An evaluation of the sum of the choices an author makes in blending fiction, syntax, figurative language, and other devices 2. Classification of authors to a group and comparison of an author to similar authors	2
6190699556	Subject complement	The word or clauses that follows a linking verb and complements, or completes, the subject of the sentence by either (1) renaming it or (2) describing it	3
6190699557	Subordinate clause	This word group contains both a subject and a verb, but it cannot stand alone; does not complete a thought	4
6190699558	Syllogism	A seductive system of formal logic that presents two premises that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion	5
6190699559	Symbolism	Anything that represents itself and stands for something else: 1. Natural (nature) 2. Conventional (religious) 3. Literary (in a variety of works)	6
6190699560	Synecdoche	Is a type of metaphor in which the part stands for the whole, the whole for a part, the genus for the species, the species for the genus, the material for the thing made, or in short, any portion, or main quality for the whole or the thing itslef	7
6190699561	Syntax	The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences (group of words)	8
6190699562	Theme	The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life	9
6190699563	Thesis	Is the sentence or a group of sentences that directly expresses the authors opinion, purpose, meaning, or position	10
6190699564	Tone	Describes the authors attitude toward his material, the audience, or both	11
6190699565	Transition	A word or phrase that links different ideas	12
6190699566	Understatement	The ironic minimizing of fact, presents something as less significant than it is. Can frequently be humorous and emphatic	13
6190699567	Undertone	An attitude that may lie under the ostensible tone of the piece	14
6190699568	Wit	Intellectually amazing language that surprises and delights. Quick perception including creative fancy and a quick rogue to articulate an answer that demanded the same quick perception	15