Pondo AP Language Terms Flashcards

10298148284	allegory	story in which characters are used as symbols; fable ex: Cupid portrayed as a chubby angel with a bow and arrows	0
10298148285	alliteration	repetition of the same letter or consonant at the beginning of neighboring words ex: She sells sea shells by the sea shore	1
10298148286	allusion	indirect reference	2
10298148287	anaphora	the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses	3
10298148288	antithesis	contrast or opposition of thought ex: To err is human, to forgive divine	4
10298148289	aphorism	statement designed to make a point ex: Spare the rod and spoil the child	5
10298148290	apostrophe	an address to the absent, dead, or inanimate as if it could reply	6
10298148291	appeal to credibility, emotion, logic	ethos, pathos, logos	7
10298148292	assonance	the repetition of similar vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of successive words ex: She sElls sea shElls by the sEa shore (E capitalized for emphasis)	8
10298148293	asyndeton	structure in which conjunctions are omitted in a series ex: Veni, vidi, vici (I came, I saw, I conquered)	9
10298148294	attitude	the sense expressed by the tone of voice and/or mood of a piece of writing	10
10298148295	begging the question	argumentative strategy where the arguer sidesteps the question or the conflict	11
10298148296	canon	an established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature	12
10298148297	chiasmus	a statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed ex: "He thinks I am but a fool. A fool, perhaps I am."	13
10298148298	claim	An assertion, usually supported by evidence	14
10298148299	colloquial	characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation ex: Coca-cola to some is called soda while to others it's called pop	15
10298148300	comparison and contrast	mode of discourse; two or more things are compared, contrasted, or both	16
10298148301	connotation	implied, suggested, or underlying meaning of a word or phrase	17
10298148302	conceit	comparison of two unlike things drawn out within a piece of literature	18
10298148303	consonance	repetition of two or more constants with a change in the intervening vowels ex: putter-patter, splish-splash, click-clack	19
10298148304	convention	an accepted manner, model, or tradition	20
10298148305	critique	an assessment or analysis of something to determine what it is, what the limitations are, and how it conforms to the genre	21
10298148306	deductive reasoning (deduction)	method of reasoning that moves from a general premise to a specific conclusion	22
10298148307	dialect	language and speech of a different area ex: Texas says y'all, we don't	23
10298148308	diction	a writer's choice of words to portray tone, purpose, or effect ex: cats roaming without leashes are 'feline delinquency'	24
10298148309	didactic	writing or speech is didactic when it has an instructive purpose or lesson	25
10298148310	elegy	a sad or mournful poem	26
10298148311	epistrophe	the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences ex: "if woman are healthy and education, their families will flourish. if women are free from violence, their families will flourish. (	27
10298148312	epitaph	an inscription on a tombstone or monument in memory of the person buried there	28
10298148313	ethos	appeal to credibility	29
10298148314	euphemism	An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant	30
10298148315	exposition	the interpretation or analysis of a text	31
10298148316	eulogy	a formal speech praising a person who has died	32
10298148317	extended metaphor	A series of comparisons between two unlike objects.	33
10298148318	figurative language/figure of speech	writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally ex: personification, metaphors	34
10298148319	flashback/retrospection	an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronology of the narration	35
10298148320	genre	a major category or type of literature ex: epic, narrative, poetry	36
10298148321	homily	sermon; tedious moralizing lecture	37
10298148322	hyperbole	extreme exaggeration ex: if you're exhausted, you say 'i'm really beat'	38
10298148323	imagery	language that appeals to the senses	39
10298148324	inductive reasoning/induction	reasoning from detailed facts to general principles	40
10298148325	inference	A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning	41
10298148326	irony	contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant verbal: what is said is actually the opposite of what is meant situational: when events end up the opposite of what is expected dramatic: facts or situations are known to the reader/audience but not the characters	42
10298148327	isocolon	use of parallel structures of the same length in successive clauses ex: many are called, but few are chosen	43
10298148328	jargon	vocabulary distinctive to a particular group of people ex: in the computer industry, they've introduced jargon into our vocab like geek, crash, interface, down, etc.	44
10298148329	Juxtaposition	the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.	45
10298148330	litote	figure of speech that emphasizes its subject by conscious understatement	46
10298148331	loose sentence	an independent clause followed by all sorts of debris, usually dependent clauses	47
10298148332	metaphor	one thing pictured as if it were something else, suggesting likeness or analogy ex: it is the east and juliet is the sun	48
10298148333	metonymy	an attribute or commonly associated forestier is used to name or designate something ex: buckingham palace announced today.....	49
10298148334	mode of discourse	the way in which information is presented in written or spoken form	50
10298148335	mood	the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage	51
10298148336	narrative	mode of discourse that tells a story of some sort and is based on sequences of connected events	52
10298148337	onomatopoeia	the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named ex: whack, zap, bam	53
10298148338	oxymoron	a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase ex: baggy tights, deafening silence	54
10298148339	paradox	an apparently contradictory statement that actually contains some truth ex: fight for peace	55
10298148340	parallel structure	the repetition of phrases, clauses, or sentences that have the same grammatical structure	56
10298148341	pathos	emotional appeal	57
10298148342	periodic sentence	sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end ex: The child, who looked as if she were being chased by demons, frenzied and ignoring all hazards, ran.	58
10298148343	personification	a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics	59
10298148344	point of view	the relation in which a narrator/author stands to a subject of discourse	60
10298148345	prose	written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure, not poetic	61
10298148346	realism	artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy	62
10298212109	rebuttal/refutation	a counterargument that has been predicted and countered	63
10298212110	rhetoric	the art of using language effectively and persuasively	64
10298212111	rhetorical question	a statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered	65
10298212112	sarcasm	the use of irony to mock or convey contempt	66
10298212113	satire	a literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies	67
10298212114	simile	comparison using like or as ex: you look like a monkey	68
10298212115	style	the choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work	69
10298212116	symbolism	A device in literature where an object represents an idea. ex: golden arches = mcdonalds	70
10298212117	synedoche	a figure of speech in which a part signifies the whole ex: fifty masts = fifty ships	71
10298212118	syntax	the way words are put together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences	72
10298212119	theme	underlying message about life or human nature that a writer wants the reader to understand	73
10298212120	tone	the attitude of the author toward the audience and characters ex: serious or humorous	74
10298212121	voice	the speaker/narrators particular take on an idea based on particular passage and how the elements expresses his or her feelings	75
10298212122	zeugma	use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different meanings ex: the their TOOK MY WALLET and the fifth avenue BUS (capitalization or emphasis	76