AP English Language and Composition Flashcards

10988765880	Syntax	The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences.	0
10988770782	Theme	The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life	1
10988776961	Thesis	The sentence or group of sentences that directly expresses the author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or position; usually judged by analyzing how accurately, effectively, and thoroughly a writer has proven the thesis.	2
10988793018	Tone	Similar to mood, _____ describes the author's attitude toward his material, the audience, or both; is easier to determine in spoken language than in written language.	3
10988804938	transition	a word or phrase that links different ideas	4
10988810529	Understatement	the ironic minimalizing of fact, _____________ presents something as less significant than it is.	5
10988818979	wit	In modern usage, intellectually amazing language that surprises and delights. A ______ statement is humorous, while suggesting the speaker's verbal power in creating ingenious and perceptive remarks.	6
10988887603	Subject Complement	The word (with any accompanying phrases) or clause that follows a linking verb and complements, or completes, the subject of the sentence by either renaming it or describing it.	7
10988940249	Subordinate Clause	This word group contains both a subject and a verb (plus any accompanying phrases or modifiers); also called a dependent clause	8
10988958774	Syllogism	From the Greek for "reckoning together," a syllogism is a deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises (the first one called "major" and the second called "minor") that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion.	9
10988968493	Symbol/Symbolism	Generally, anything that represents itself and stands for something else.	10
10988994400	Synedoche	Using one part of an object to represent the entire object (for example, referring to a car simply as "wheels")	11
10989009615	Synethesia	Describing one kind of sensation in terms of another	12
11007291319	Rhetoric	The principles governing the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing	13
11007322476	Rhetorical modes	Describes the variety, the conventions, and the purposes of the major kinds of writing	14
11007325602	Sarcasm	The use of irony to mock or convey contempt	15
11007337948	Satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.	16
11007343959	Style	The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work	17
11007365369	Semantics	The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words, their historical and psychological development, their connotations, and their relation to one another.	18