AP LANGUAGE Flashcards

13697797078	ad hominem	a fallacy that attacks the person rather than dealing with the real issue in dispute	0
13697800210	ad populum	bandwagon appeal	1
13697802883	Allegory	a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.	2
13697809600	allusion	A reference to another work of literature, person, or event	3
13697809601	analogy	A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way	4
13697820272	anecdote	a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person	5
13697824839	anticlimax	a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events	6
13697838526	appeal to authority	A fallacy in which a speaker or writer seeks to persuade not by giving evidence but by appealing to the respect people have for a famous person or institution.	7
13697856227	Argumentation	exploration of a problem by investigating all sides of it	8
13697867919	begging the question	A fallacy in which a claim is based on evidence or support that is in doubt.	9
13697872965	cause and effect	The reason something happens and the result of it happening.	10
13697879656	chronological ordering	arrangement in the order in which things occur; may move from past to present or in reverse chronological order, from present to past	11
13697887224	classification as a means of ordering	arrangement of objects according to class	12
13697892615	Colloquial Expressions	Words or phrases characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation.	13
13697902272	damning with faint praise	intentional use of a positive statement that has a negative implication	14
13697905347	deduction	the process of moving from a general rule to a specific example	15
13697909178	digression	a temporary departure from the main subject in speech or writing	16
13697924984	ellipsis	In grammar, the omission of a word or words necessary for complete construction but understood in context	17
13697937815	Euphemism	the use of a word or phrase that is less direct, but that is also less distasteful or less offensive than another	18
13697965419	expository writing	writing that explains or informs	19
13697972390	False Dilemma	A fallacy of oversimplification that offers a limited number of options (usually two) when in fact more options are available.	20
13697980061	hyperbole	exaggeration	21
13697984960	imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	22
13697994711	Induction	factual reasoning	23
13698009296	inverted syntax	reversing the normal word order of a sentence	24
13698013121	irony	the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning	25
13698024192	litotes	in rhetoric, a figure in which an affirmative is expressed by a negation of the contrary	26
13698040285	metaphor	a figure of speech in which one thing is compared to another by being spoken of as though it were that thing	27
13698068747	non sequitur	A statement that does not follow logically from evidence	28
13698080890	order of importance	a method of organizing a paper according to the relative significance of the subtopics	29
13698087044	oxymoron	a figure of speech in which contradictory terms or ideas are combined	30
13698100177	parable	A short story from which a lesson may be drawn.	31
13698112893	Parallel syntactic structures	using the same part of speech or syntactic structure in (1) each element of a series, (2) before and after coordinating conjunctions (and, but, yet, or, for, nor), and (3) after each of a pair of correlative conjunctions (not only...but also, neither...nor, both...and, etc.). Below are examples for definitions (1) and (3):Over the hill, through the woods, and to grandmother's house we go. (3) That vegetable is both rich in vitamins and low in calories.	32
13698122593	paradox	a statement which seems self-contradictory, but which may be true in fact	33
13698135391	parody	a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way	34
13698150083	pedantry	a display of narrow-minded and trivial scholarship or arbitrary adherence to rules and forms	35
13698159363	Personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	36
13698170414	periodic sentence structure	a sentence written so that the full meaning cannot be understood until the end	37
13698177161	persuasion	taking a single position for the purpose of getting others to accept that position; may appeal to emotion or reason	38
13698183963	point of view	the perspective from which a story is told	39
13698188871	post hoc fallacy	false assumption that because one event occurred before another event, it must have caused that event	40
13698196056	rhetoric	the art of using language effectively and persuasively	41
13698200209	satire	a literary work in which vices, abuses, absurdities,etc are held up to ridicule and contempt; use of ridicule; use of sarcasm	42
13698229945	similie	A comparison using "like" or "as"	43
13698234658	spatital ordering	organization of information using spatial cues such as top to bottom, left to right	44
13698254959	syllogism	A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.	45
13698257647	symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.	46
13698268828	syntax	The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.	47
13698274832	tone	A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels.	48
13698281926	Understatement	deliberately representing something as much less than it really is	49