AP Flashcards

5746630474	Analogy	A similarity or comparison between 2 different things or the relationship between them. Can explain someyhing unfamiliar with something more familiar.	0
5746630475	Alliteration	The repetition of sounds especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words	1
5746630476	Antithesis	A figure of speech involving a seeming contradiction of ideas, words, clauses, or sentences with in a balance grammatical structure.	2
5746630477	Apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses and absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction such as liberty or love. The effect may add familiarity or emotional intensity.	3
5746630478	Diction	Related to style, diction refers to the writers word choices, especially with regard to their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness. Word choice.	4
5746630479	Figurative language	Writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid.	5
5746630480	Juxtaposition	Placing diss similar items, descriptions, or ideas close together or side-by-side, especially for comparison or contrast.	6
5746630481	Oxymoron	A figure of speech where in the author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox	7
5746630482	Paradox	A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense, but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity.	8
5746630483	Parallelism	The grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity.	9
5746630484	Rhetoric	Describes the principles governing the art of writing affectively, Eloquently and persuasively.	10
5746630485	Tone	similar to mood, describes the authors attitude toward his or her material, the audience, or both.	11
5746630486	Understatement	The ironic minimizing of fact, understatement present something as less significant than it is. The effect can frequently be humorous and empathic.	12
5746630487	Appeals to authority	Arguments in which the speaker claims to be an authority or expert in the field, or attempts to play upon the emotions, or appeals to the use of reason.	13
5746630488	Ethos	In rhetorical, the appeal of a text to the credibility and character of the speaker, writer or narrator	14
5746630489	Ontomatopieia	A word capturing or approximating the sound of what it describes. The purpose of these words is to make a passage more affective for the reader or listener.	15
5746630490	Pathos	That element in literature that stimulates pity or sorrow. An argument or persuasion it tends to be the evocation of pity from the readers/listener.	16
5746630491	Characterization	describing the individual quality of a person or thing.	17
5746630492	Logos	an appeal to logic, and is a way of persuading an audience by reason.	18
5746630493	Antecedent	a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun	19
5746630494	Anecdote	a short and interesting story or an amusing event often proposed to support or demonstrate some point and make readers and listeners laugh.	20
5746630495	Overstatement	an act of stating something more than it actually is in order to make the point more serious or important or beautiful. In literature, writers use it as a literary technique for the sake of humor, and for laying emphasis on a certain point.	21
5746630496	Overstatement	to mark with a line or lines underneath; underline, as for emphasis.	22
5746630497	Citation	a passage or source cited for this purpose.	23
5746630498	Digression	the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work.	24