AP Language Terms Flashcards

7287182469	Allegory	A story, poem, or picture that can revel a hidden meaning; often political or moral	0
7287184228	Alliteration	The recurrence of a letter of sound at the beginning of adjacent words	1
7287196012	Allusion	A reference designed to call something to mind without specifically mentioning it	2
7287199745	Analogy	A comparison between two things, most often based on their structure and for the purpose of explaining or clarifying	3
7287202927	Anaphora	The use of a word to replace a word that had previously been used in order to avoid repetition	4
7287207096	Anecdote	A short story within a larger story about an incident or person	5
7287208440	Antithesis	The placing of a sentence or one of its parts against another to which it is opposed to form a balanced contrast of ideas	6
7287210708	Apostrophe	When a speaker breaks off from addressing one party and instead addresses a third party	7
7287216061	Assonance	When two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds	8
7287219883	Asyndeton	Commas used without conjugation to separate a series of words	9
7287222470	Claim	A statement which is technically arguable but is used as the main point to support or prove and argument	10
7287226486	Climax	A major turning point in a plot or the moment of maximum intensity	11
7287228827	Colloquialism	The use of informal words or phrases in literature, could also be slang	12
7287230649	Counter Argument	An opposing argument to the original argument presented	13
7287232711	Diction	The word choice of an author	14
7287233958	Enumeration	A list of all items in a collection one by one	15
7287234599	Epistrophe	The repetition of the same phrase or expression more than once in different sentences	16
7287237112	Evidence	Information to help prove a point or claim	17
7287238654	Hyperbole	The use of extreme exaggeration to prove a point (for effect)	18
7287242283	Imagery	The use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, a thing, a place, or an experience	19
7287245518	Irony	A figure of speech that uses words in a way that their intended meaning is different than that of the actual meaning of the words	20
7287248138	Jargon	When a writer uses specific language for a particular trade, profession or group	21
7287250417	Juxtaposition	When two ideas, people, places, or things are placed side by side for the purpose of developing comparisons	22
7287252426	Litotes	A figure of speech that employs an understanding through the use of double negatives	23
7287265664	Logical Fallacy	An error in reasoning that renders an argument invalid	24
7287254974	Metaphor	Comparing two unlike things without the use of common comparisons such as like or as	25
7287256926	Metonymy	A figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing, is referred to by something closely associated with it	26
7287259992	Modes of Persuasion	Often referred to as ethical strategies that classify the speaker's appeal to an audience	27
7287262303	Narration	The act of narrating a story	28
7287263775	Onomatopoeia	A word that mimics the actual sound of an animal, object, or person	29
7543632816	Oxymoron	A figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect	30
7543635472	Paradox	A statement which appears to be self- contradictory but holds/ reveals some truth	31
7543647137	Parallelism	The use of components in a sentence that have the same grammatical structure	32
7543649981	Parenthetical Statement	A statement that qualifies or explains something	33
7543652231	Personification	Giving human characteristics to an inanimate object, animal, or any other non-human thing	34
7543654270	Polysyndeton	Sentence which uses a conjunction with NO commas to separate the items in a series	35
7543659887	Rebuttal	An attempt to disprove, contradict or argue an already existing claim	36
7543661996	Repetition	The act of repeating word, phrases or sounds	37
7543662990	Rhetorical Question	A question that does not require an actual answer	38
7543665626	Rhyme Scheme	A pattern of rhymes at the end of lines of a poem or song	39