AP TERMS Flashcards

7051099250	foreshadowing	When an author gives hints about what will occur later in a story.	0
7051604180	Active Voice	The subject of the sentence performs the action.	1
7051604181	Allusion	An indirect reference to something (usually a literary text, although it can be other things commonly known, such as plays, songs, historical events) with which the reader is supposed to be familiar.	2
7051604183	Alter-ego	A character that is used by the author to speak the author's own thoughts; when an author speaks directly to the audience through a character.	3
7051604185	Anecdote	A brief recounting of a relevant episode. Anecdotes are often inserted into fictional or nonfictional texts as a way of developing a point or injecting humor.	4
7051604187	Antecedent	The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.	5
7051604190	Comic relief -	when a humorous scene is inserted into a serious story, in order to lighten the mood	6
7051604192	Diction	Word choice, particularly as an element of style. Different types of words have significant effects on meaning.	7
7051604194	Colloquial	Ordinary or familiar type of conversation.	8
7051604195	Connotation	Rather than the dictionary definition (denotation), the associations suggested by a word. Implied meaning rather than literal meaning.	9
7051604197	Denotation	The literal, explicit meaning of a word, without its connotations.	10
7051604198	Jargon -	The diction used by a group which practices a similar profession or activity. Lawyers	11
7051604200	Vernacular	1. Language or dialect of a particular country. 2. Language or dialect of a regionalclan or group. 3. Plain everyday speech	12
7051604202	Didactic	A term used to describe fiction, nonfiction or poetry that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking.	13
7051604203	provides a model of correct behavior or thinking.		14
7051604204	Allegory	A story, fictional or non fictional, in which characters, things, and events represent qualities or concepts.	15
7051604206	Euphemism	A more agreeable or less offensive substitute for generally unpleasant words or concepts.	16
7051604207	Analogy	An analogy is a comparison of one pair of variables to a parallel set of variables.	17
7051604208	Idiom	A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally.	18
7051604209	Metaphor	Making an implied comparison, not using "like," as," or other such words. "	19
7051604210	Extended metaphor	when the metaphor is continued later in the written work.	20
7051604212	Metonymy -	Replacing an actual word or idea, with a related word or concept.	21
7051604213	Synecdoche -	A kind of metonymy when a whole is represented by naming one of its parts	22
7051604215	Simile	Using words such as "like" or "as" to make a direct comparison between two very different things.	23
7051604217	Synesthesia -	a description involving a "crossing of the senses	24
7051604218	Foreshadowing -	When an author gives hints about what will occur later in a story.	25
7051604219	Genre	The major category into which a literary work fits.	26
7051604220	Imagery	Word or words that create a picture in the reader's mind.	27
7051604221	Irony	When the opposite of what you expect to happen does.	28
7051604222	Verbal irony	When you say something and mean the opposite/something different.	29
7051604223	Dramatic irony	When the audience of a drama, play, movie, etc. knows something that the character doesn't and would be surprised to find out	30
7051604225	Situational irony	Found in the plot (or story line) of a book, story, or movie.	31
7051604226	Juxtaposition	Placing things side by side for the purposes of comparison	32
7051604227	Mood	The atmosphere created by the literature and accomplished through word choice (diction).	33
7051604228	Motif -	a recurring idea in a piece of literature.	34
7051604229	Oxymoron -	When apparently contradictory terms are grouped together and suggest a paradox	35
7051604230	Pacing -	The speed or tempo of an author's writing	36
7051604231	Paradox	A seemingly contradictory situation which is actually true.	37
7051604232	Parallelism -	Sentence construction which places equal grammatical constructions near each other, or repeats identical grammatical patterns.	38
7051604233	Anaphora	Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences or clauses in a row	39
7051604235	Chiasmus -	When the same words are used twice in succession, but the second time, the order othe words is reversed.	40
7051604237	Antithesis	Two opposite or contrasting words, phrases, or clauses, or even ideas, with parallel structure.	41
7051604239	Parenthetical Idea	Parentheses are used to set off an idea from the rest of the sentence.	42
7051604240	Parody	An exaggerated imitation of a serious work for humorous purposes.	43
7051604241	Persona	The fictional mask or narrator that tells a story	44
7051604242	Polysyndeton -	When a writer creates a list of items which are all separated by conjunctions. Normally, a conjunction is used only before the last item in a list.	45
7051604244	Pun -	When a word that has two or more meanings is used in a humorous way.	46
7051604245	Rhetoric	The art of effective communication.	47
7051604246	Rhetorical Question	Question not asked for information but for effect	48
7051604247	Sarcasm	A generally bitter comment that is ironically or satirically worded	49
7051604248	Satire	A work that reveals a critical attitude toward some element of life to a humorous effect.	50
7051604249	Appositive	A word or group of words placed beside a noun or noun substitute to supplement its meaning.	51
7051604251	Clause	A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb.	52
7051604252	Balanced sentence -	A sentence in which two parallel elements are set off against each other like equal weights on a scale.	53
7051604254	Compound sentence	Contains at least two independent clauses but no dependent clauses	54
7051604255	Complex sentence	Contains only one independent clause and at least one dependent clause.	55
7051604257	Periodic sentence	When the main idea is not completed until the end of the sentence.	56
7051604258	Symbol	Anything that represents or stands for something else.	57
7051604259	Syntax/sentence variety	Grammatical arrangement of words.	58
7051604260	Tone	A writer's attitude toward his subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language and organization.	59
7051604262	Ethos	means being convinced by the credibility of the author	60
7051604263	Pathos	means persuading by appealing to the reader's emotions	61
7051604264	Logos	means persuading by the use of reasoning, using true premises and valid arguments	62
7051604265	Concession	Accepting at least part or all of an opposing viewpoint.	63
7051604266	Conditional Statement	is an if-then statement and consists of two parts, an antecedent and a consequent.	64
7052006254	tricolon	a rhetorical device that employs a series of three parallel words, phrases, or clauses.	65
7052011497	asyndenton	the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence.	66
7052019592	rhetorical question	a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer.	67
7052149331	legos	what is the other word that gets confused with logos	68