ap language Flashcards

10530465138	hominem argument	argument that attacks opposing speaker	0
10530467285	allegory	fictional work in which the characters represent ideas or concepts	1
10530472627	alliteration	repetition of consonant sounds	2
10530475058	allusion	passing reference to a familiar person place or thing	3
10530480137	amibiguity	uncertain or indefinite	4
10530483181	analogy	resemblance of two things that are essentially different	5
10530489309	analytical reading	Reading actively paying attention to content and structure of the text	6
10530493248	anteccedent	noun from which another pronoun derives its meaning	7
10530498937	antithesis	opposition, or contrast, of ideas or words in a parallel construction	8
10530502593	Apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person	9
10530505004	apotheosis	raising to god status	10
10530509640	appositive	A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun.	11
10530511565	argument	to attempt to convince the reader to agree with a point of view	12
10530518499	assertion	The thesis or proposition that a writer puts forward in argument.	13
10530521279	assonance	type of internal rhyming	14
10530525028	assumption	belief or that is taken for granted	15
10530529278	Asyndeton	omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words	16
10530530887	atmosphere	The emotional tone or background that surrounds a scene	17
10530534307	attitude	describes feelings of a particular speaker or piece of writing toward a subject	18
10530542670	audience	the intended reader of a piece	19
10530544233	bathos	A false or forced emotion that is often humorous.	20
10530548237	claim	proposition put forth in argument	21
10530559079	classification	The process of grouping things based on their similarities	22
10530565464	cliche	expression that has become ineffective through overuse	23
10530570590	coherence	A quality of good writing that results when all sentences, paragraphs and longer divisions of an essay are naturally connected.	24
10530575036	colloquial expression	Characteristic of or appropriate to spoken language or to writing that seeks its effect.	25
10530583002	compare and contrast	finding similarities and differences between 2 things	26
10530585542	concrete	names a specific person place or thing that can be directly perceived by the senses	27
10530594775	connotation	an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.	28
10530595851	contrast	help writers to expand on their ideas by allowing them to show both what a thing is and what it is not	29
10530600994	deduction	process of reasoning from a sated premise to a necessary conclusion	30
10530610570	definition	statement of the meaning of a word	31
10530614890	description	tells how a person place or things perceived by the 5 senses	32
10530625276	dialogue	conversation that is recorded in a place of writing	33
10530628488	diction	authors choice of words	34
10530630853	division	breaking a single large unit into smaller ones	35
10530639806	dominant impression	the single mood, atmosphere, or quality a writer emphasizes in a piece of descriptive writing	36
10530640906	draft	a first or preliminary form of any writing, subject to revision, copying, etc.	37
10530644770	editing	The process of updating a document to make changes, correct errors, and make it visually appealing	38
10530649380	elegiac	Expressing sorrow or lamentation	39
10530652262	emphasis	the placement of important ideas and words within sentences and longer units of writing so that they have the greatest impact	40
10530653809	essay	a short piece of nonfiction writing on a particular subject.	41
10530660096	ethos	credibility	42
10530667088	euphemism	A mild or pleasant sounding expression that substitutes for a harsh, indelicate, or simply less pleasant idea	43
10530673792	evaluation	assessment of its effectiveness or merit	44
10530683079	evidence	data on which an argument is based	45
10530688217	examples	basic means of developing or clarifying an idea	46
10530696836	exemplification	Providing examples in service of a point.	47
10530701120	exposition	to clarify explain and inform	48
10530703570	fact	A statement that can be proved.	49
10530707370	figures of speech	imaginative comparisons in which one thing is described in terms of another	50
10530710082	fiction	based on actual occurrences	51
10530715239	figurative language	imply an imaginative comparison	52
10530718200	focus	limitation that a writer gives his or her subject	53
10530724328	foreshadowing	A purposeful hint placed in a work of literature to suggest what may occur later in the narrative	54
10530727575	grammar	a set of rules that specify how the units of language can be combined to produce meaningful messages	55
10530730173	Hyperbole	a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect	56
10530737182	idiom	a word or phrase that is habitually with a particular meaning in a language	57
10530752794	image	a mental picture of something	58
10530754455	induction	process of reasoning to a conclusion about all members of a class	59
10530763542	irony	when a situation produces an outcome opposite of what was expected	60
10530768446	juxtaposition	when to contrasting things are placed next to each other	61
10530774415	fallacy	error in reasoning	62
10530776975	logos	The use of reason as a controlling principle in an argument	63
10530778891	metaphor	figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared directly	64
10530789468	metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	65
10530792880	mood	The prevailing or dominant feeling of a work, scene, or event	66
10530794462	narration	to tell a story	67
10530799529	objective/subjective	Objective writing is factual and impersonal, whereas subjective writing,, relies heavily on personal interpretation.	68
10530800957	Onomatopoeia	words that have sounds that reinforce their meaning	69
10530810453	opinion	a belief or opinion	70
10530813877	organization	thoughtful arrangement of ones points or ideas	71
10530819308	overview	A brief summary of a whole work	72
10530821455	oxymoron	combines two contradictory words in one expression	73
10530827222	pacing	the speed of a story's action, dialogue, or narration	74
10530830834	paradox	contradiction that reveals some truth	75
10530833310	paragraph	the single most important unit of thought in an essay, is a series of closely related sentences	76
10530836779	Parallelism	A literary technique that relies on the use of the same syntactical structures	77
10530838758	parody	effort to make fun of a literary work	78
10530844861	pathos	A sympathetic feeling of pity or compassion evoked by an artistic work	79
10530848027	person	describes the relationship of a writer to an audience by examining the pronouns that are used	80
10530855069	persona	The character created by the voice and narration of the speaker of a text	81
10530860577	Personification	objects are described as having human qualities	82
10530867787	point of view	the perspective from which a story is told	83
10530869289	prewriting	The thinking and planning done before a person writes.	84
10530870583	Process Analysis	answers the question how	85
10530873321	publication	when the writer shares his or her writing with the intended audience	86
10530875857	pun	A play on words	87
10530877141	purpose	what the writer wants to accomplish in a particular piece of writing	88
10530880833	Reptition	repeating of a word or phrase for emphasis	89
10530884492	revision	writer determines what in the draft needs to be developed	90
10530896740	satire	ridicule or mock ideas	91
10530903748	selection of detail	The specific words, incidents, images, or events the author uses to create a scene or narrative	92
10530905573	sequence	the order in which things happen or should happen	93
10530906901	simile	commonly used figure of speech like or as	94
10530915997	slang	informal language	95
10530917789	slanting	use of certain words that result in a biased view point	96
10530924095	speaker	narrator in the story	97
10530932322	strategy	means by which a writer achieves his or her purpose	98
10530940561	style	individual manor in which a writer expresses his or her view	99
10530945638	subject	what the essay is about	100
10530948144	syllogism	argument that utilizes deduct reasoning	101
10530957389	symbol	A person, place, or thing that stands for something beyond itself	102
10530960189	synonym	A word that means the same as another word	103
10530961730	syntax	The way words are arranged in a sentence	104
10530965950	technical language	specific vocabulary of a trade or profession	105
10530972981	tension	A feeling of excitement and expectation the reader or audience feels because of the conflict, mood, or atmosphere of the work.	106
10530976436	texture	the way elements of a work of poetry are joined together	107
10530984167	theme	Central idea of a work of literature	108
10530985544	thesis	statement of the main idea	109
10530987736	title	beginning of an essay to identify the subject	110
10530994175	tone	the way an author presents his idea	111
10530999514	topic sentence	states the central idea	112
10531002275	transitions	words that link sentences and paragraphs to achieve coherence	113
10531012141	understatement	When an author assigns less significance to an event or thing than it deserves	114
10531014406	unity	when all the words contribute to a thesis	115
10531020032	voice	how the speaker presents himself to the reader	116
10531024435	writing process	consists of 5 major stages	117
10531030084	zeugma	particular breech of sense in a sentence	118