AP Language Vocabulary List Flashcards

10185840059	Authority	Influence denote a power or right to direct the actions of others	0
10185848089	Audience	Listeners, spectators	1
10185848550	Backing	Support provided for the warrant	2
10185849593	Assertion	Positive statement regarding a belief or a fact	3
10185849594	Means Vs. Ends	Any action carried out for the sole purpose of achieving something else	4
10185850603	Deductive Reasoning	Logical process in which a conclusion is based on the concordance of multiple premises that are generally assumed to be true	5
10185850604	Inductive Reasoning	A conclusion reached through reasoning	6
10185851204	Alliteration	Two or more words in a phase or line of poetry share the same beginning sound	7
10185851205	Tone	The way the author expresses his attitude through his writing	8
10185851206	Diction	The style of speaking that a writer, speaker, or character uses	9
10247030558	Denotation	Refers to the literal, dictionary definition of a word	10
10247032514	Connotation	Refers to a meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly	11
10247032515	Colloquial	The us of informal words, phrases, or even slang in a piece of writing	12
10247033019	Formal	Logical pattern that includes as much information as it can within a minimum amount of space	13
10247033020	Informal	Relaxed tone and simple words	14
10247033021	Concrete	Constituting an actual thing or instance	15
10247033436	Abstract	Refers to words or phrases that name things not knowable through the five senses	16
10185851853	Detail	Sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste the author use to describe specific things	17
10247049157	Mood	Element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions	18
10247049158	Imagery	Language and description that appeals to our five sense	19
10247049180	Setting	the time and geographic location within a narrative or within a work of fiction	20
10185852406	Figurative Language	Metaphors, similes, and and allusions	21
10247056711	Allusion	Figure of speech that refers to a well-known story, event, person, or object in order to make a comparison in the readers' minds.	22
10247056712	Simile	Figure of speech that makes a comparison, showing similarities between two different things	23
10247057577	Metaphor	The comparison of one thing to another without the use of like or as	24
10247057578	Personification	Form of figurative language in which something that is not human is given human characteristics	25
10247057612	Hyperbole	The use of over-exaggeration for the purpose of creating emphasis or being humours, but it is not intended to be taken literally	26
10247057965	Understatement	Figure of speech employed by writers or speakers to intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is	27
10247057966	Paradox	Statement that contradicts itself and still seems true somehow	28
10247091354	Verbal Irony	When what is said is the opposite of the literal meaning	29
10247091355	Analogy	Creates a relationship based on parallels or connections between two ideas	30
10247091363	Anecdote	Short and interesting story, or an amusing event often proposed to support or demonstrate some point, and to make the audience laugh	31
10247091865	Metonymy	Type of metaphor in which an object is used to describe something that its closely related to it	32
10247091866	Synecdoche	When a part of something represents the whole, or it may use a whole to represent a part	33
10185853232	Rhetorical Modes/Modes Of Discourse	Narration, description, exposition, and argumentation	34
10247102203	Exemplification	A showing or illustrating by example	35
10247102204	Cause/Effect	A cause-effect relationship is a relationship in which one event makes another event happen	36
10247102205	Description	A text that explains the features of something	37
10247102845	Process Analysis	Is a Method of paragraph or essay development by which a writer explains step by step how something is done or how to do something	38
10247102846	Narration	The use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience	39
10247103266	Comparison/Contrast	When a writer compares or contrasts two people, places, things, or ideas	40
10247103267	Expositon	Used in television programs, films, literature, poetry, plays and even music	41
10247103268	Argumentation	A brief summary, often in prose or section of a poem or other work	42
10247104208	Repetition	Could be a word, a phrase, or a full sentence, pr a poetical line repeated to emphasize its significance in the entire text	43
10185854084	Point Of View	Refers to who is telling a story, or who is narrating it	44
10247118402	First Person	A point of view where the story is narrated by one character at a time	45
10247118403	Second Person	A point of view where the narrator tells the story to another character using the word "you"	46
10247118404	Third Person	A point of view where the narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character	47
10247118979	Subjective	Point of view is something based on one's opinions, perspectives, beliefs, discoveries, desires, and feelings	48
10247118980	Objective	Not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice	49
10185854085	Syntax	Refers to the actual way in which words and sentences are places together in the writing	50
10247132275	Anaphora	The repetition of a certain word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines of writing or speech	51
10247132276	Antithesis	Opposite and is used to put two contrasting ideas together	52
10247132908	Asyndeton	A writing style where conjunctions are omitted in a series of words, phrases, or clauses	53
10247132909	Polysndeton	Technique in which conjunctions are used repeated in quick succession, often with no commas, even when the conjunctions could be removed	54
10247133157	Parallel sentence	Repetition of the same pattern of words or phrases within a sentence or passage to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance	55
10247133596	Periodic sentence	Has the main clause or predicate at the end	56
10247133597	Rhetorical question	A question you ask without expecting an answer	57
10247134215	Inverted syntax	Formed exclamations	58