AP Language Terms Flashcards

10500558232	Allegory	A narrative in which the characters, behavior, and even the setting demonstrates multiple levels of meaning and significance. Often a universal symbol or a personified abstraction.	0
10500564030	Alliteration	The sequential repetition of a similar initial sound, usually applied to consonants, usually in closely proximate stressed syllables.	1
10500573490	Allusion	A literary, historical, religious, or mythological reference in a literary work.	2
10500584389	Anaphora	The regular repetition of the same words of phrases at the beginning of successive phrases or clauses.	3
10500594358	Antithesis	The juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, grammatical structure, or ideas	4
10500630041	Aphorism	A concise statement designed to make a point or illustrate a commonly held belief	5
10500648577	Appeals to...authority, emotion, logic	Rhetorical arguments in which the speaker claims to be an authority or expert in a field, or attempts to play upon the emotions, or appeals to the use of reason	6
10500654090	Apostrophe	An address or invocation to something inanimate	7
10500661966	Assonance	The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually in successive or proximate words	8
10500666385	Asyndeton	A syntactical structure in which conjunctions are omitted in a series, usually producing more rapid prose	9
10500673519	Attitude	The sense expressed by the tone of voice or the mood of a piece of writing; the author's feelings toward his or her subject, characters, events, or theme. It might even be his or her feelings for the reader	10
10500682602	Begging the question	An argumentative ploy where the arguer sidesteps the question of the conflict, evades or ignores the real question	11
10500685366	Canon	That which has been accepted as authentic	12
10500686853	Chiasmus	A figure of speech and generally a syntactical structure wherein the order of the terms in the first half of a parallel clause is reversed in the second	13
10500693614	Colloquial	A term identifying the diction of the common, ordinary folks, especially in a specific region or area	14