Tools of the Trade BFA AP Language Flashcards

Tools of the Trade vocabulary terms for Mrs. Hebert's AP Language and Composition classes.

8427746150	Allegory	A fictional work in which the characters represent ideas or concepts.	0
8427746151	Alliteration	The repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables.	1
8427746152	Allusion	A passing reference to a familiar person, place, or thing drawn from history, the Bible, mythology, or literature.	2
8427746153	Anaphora	Repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences.	3
8427746154	Anecdote	A brief narrative of an entertaining and presumably true incident.	4
8427746155	Aphorism	A concise statement of a principle; a terse formulation of truth or sentiment.	5
8427746156	Bombast	Language that is overly rhetorical (pompous); especially when considered in context.	6
8427746157	Chiasmus	A form of antithesis in which the second half of the statement inverts the word order of the first half.	7
8427746158	Circumlocution	A roundabout or indirect way of speaking; the use of more words than necessary to express an idea.	8
8427746159	Concrete Language	Language that describes specific, observable things, people, or places, rather than ideas or qualities.	9
8427746160	Connotation	The associations, images, or impressions carried by a word, as opposed to the word's literal meaning.	10
8427746161	Denotation	The dictionary meaning of a word, the literal meaning.	11
8427746162	Diction	Choice of words especially with regard to correctness, clearness, or effectiveness.	12
8427746163	Ellipsis	A rhetorical device in which words are consciously omitted, perhaps because their meaning can be inferred.	13
8427746164	Epigraph	A quotation or motto at the beginning of a book or chapter.	14
8427746165	Euphemism	The substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt.	15
8427746166	Extended Metaphor	A metaphor, or implied comparison, that is sustained for several lines or that becomes the controlling image of an entire poem.	16
8427746167	Figurative Language	A term for all uses of language that imply imaginative comparison.	17
8427746168	Hyperbole	Obvious, extravagant exaggeration or overstatement, not intended to be taken literally, but used figuratively to create humor or emphasis.	18
8427746169	Imagery	The making of "pictures in words"; appeals to the senses of taste, smell, hearing, and touch, and to internal feelings, as well as to the sense of sight.	19
8427746170	Inverted Sentence	A sentence in which the subject follows the verb.	20
8427746171	Malapropism	The comic substitution of one word for another similar in sound but quite different in meaning.	21
8427746172	Metaphor	A figure of speech; an implied analogy in which one thing is imaginatively compared to or identified with another, dissimilar thing.	22
8427746173	Metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it.	23
8427746174	Mood	The climate of feeling in a literary work.	24
8427746175	Onomatopoeia	The use of words whose sound imitates the sound of the thing being named.	25
8427746176	Oxymoron	A figure of speech in which two contradictory words or phrases are combined in a single expression, giving the effect of a condensed paradox.	26
8427746177	Paradox	A statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true.	27
8427746178	Parallelism	The technique of showing that words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures are comparable in content and importance by placing them side by side and making them similar in form.	28
8427746179	Personification	A figure of speech in which human characteristics and sensibilities are attributed to animals, plants, inanimate objects, natural forces or abstract ideas.	29
8427746180	Point of View	The particular perspective from which a story is told.	30
8427746181	Pun	A form of wit, not necessarily funny, involving a play on a word with two or more meanings.	31
8427746182	Rhetoric	The art of speaking or writing effectively; the study of writing or speaking as a means of communication or persuasion.	32
8427746183	Rhetorical Question	A question whose answer is obvious.	33
8427746184	Satire	A term used to describe any form of literature that blends ironic humor and wit with criticism for the purpose of ridiculing folly, vice, stupidity - the whole range of human foibles and frailties - in individuals and institutions.	34
8427746185	Simile	A figure of speech that uses like, as, or as if to compare two essentially different objects, actions, or attributes that share some aspect of similarity.	35
8427746186	Situational Irony	Refers to the contrast between what is intended or expected and what actually occurs.	36
8427746187	Style	A writer's characteristic way of saying things.	37
8427746188	Syllogism	An argument that utilizes deductive reasoning and consists of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.	38
8427746189	Symbol	Anything that signifies, or stands for, something else.	39
8427746190	Synecdoche	A figure of speech in which a part of something stands for the whole thing.	40
8427746191	Syntax	The way words are arranged in a sentence.	41
8427746192	Theme	The central idea of a piece of work.	42
8427746193	Tone	The reflection in a work of the author's attitude toward his or her subject, characters, and readers.	43
8427746194	Understatement	A type of verbal irony in which something is purposely represented as being far less important than it actually is.	44
8427746195	Verbal Irony	A figure of speech in which there is contrast between what is said ans what is actually meant.	45