AP LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION TOOLBOX TERMS Flashcards

12099744693	hyperbole	exaggerated statements not meant to be taken literally. i told you to clean your room a million times	0
12099744694	diction	word choice	1
12099744695	generic conventions	traditions for each genre	2
12099744696	extended metaphor	A comparison between two things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph or lines in a poem.	3
12099744697	genre	a major category or type of literature	4
12099744698	figure of speech	a device used to produce figurative language (apostrophe, hyperbole, irony, metaphor, etc)	5
12099744699	homily	SERMON, spiritual advice formal speech	6
12099744700	euphemism	An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant "passed away"	7
12099744701	didactic	primary aim of teaching	8
12099744702	figurative language	not literal	9
12099744703	Denotation	the literal meaning of a word	10
12099744704	Imagery	language that appeals to the senses	11
12099744705	Connotation	an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.	12
12099744706	clause	A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb.	13
12099744707	analogy	A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them.	14
12099744708	antecedent	The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.	15
12099744709	Allegory	A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions	16
12099744710	Conceit	A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects.	17
12099744711	Ambiguity	The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage.	18
12099744712	Apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.	19
12099744713	Allusion	an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.	20
12099744714	Aphorism	A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle.	21
12099744715	Alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds	22
12099744716	colloquial	characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation	23
12099744717	metonymy	substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it	24
12099744718	Oxymoron	a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction	25
12099744719	Parallelism	similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	26
12099744720	Irony	the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning	27
12099744721	Mood	Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader	28
12099744722	Paradox	A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.	29
12099744723	Onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	30
12099744724	Invective	An emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language.	31
12099744725	Anaphora	repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines	32
12099744726	Sarcasm	harsh, cutting language or tone intended to ridicule	33
12099744727	Polysyndeton	Deliberate use of many conjunctions "We lived and laughed and loved and left."	34
12099744728	Asyndenton	Deliberate lack of conjunctions "I CAME, I SAW I, CONQUERED"	35
12099744729	Isocolon	A succession of phrases of approximately equal length and corresponding structure. "I CAME, I SAW I, CONQUERED" "SHE RAN, HE RAN, I RAN"	36
12099744730	Point of View	the perspective from which a story is told	37
12099744731	Prose	written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.	38
12099744732	Parody	A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule.	39
12099744733	Rhetoric	the art of using language effectively and persuasively	40
12099744734	Satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.	41
12099744735	Semantics	The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words, their historical and psychological development, their connotations, and their relation to one another.	42
12099744736	Trope	The generic name for a figure of speech such as image, symbol, simile, and metaphor.	43
12099744737	Understatement	the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.	44
12099744738	Epistrophe	the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences	45
12099744739	Syllogism	A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.	46
12099744740	Antithesis	the direct opposite, a sharp contrast	47
12099744741	caricature	an exaggerated portrayal of one's features	48
12099744742	Litotes	understatement that involves making an affirmative point by denying its opposite. That was no pleasant journey	49
12099744743	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	50
12099744744	Synesthesia	when one kind of sensory stimulus evokes the subjective experience of another	51
12099744745	Wit	intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights	52
12099744746	Pun	a humorous play on words	53
12099744747	Bathos	insincere or overly sentimental quality of writing/speech intended to evoke pity	54
12099744748	Chiasmus	A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed	55
12099744749	Epithet	an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned.	56
12099744750	Zeugma	Where one word (usually a verb) modifies or governs—often in different, sometimes incongruent ways—two or more words in a sentence.	57