AP Terms Flashcards

13436972832	ad hominem argument	an argument attacking an individual's character rather than his or her position on an issue (appeals to emotion rather than intellect)	0
13436972833	allegory	a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.	1
13436972834	alliteration	the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.	2
13436972835	allusion	a reference to another work of literature, person, or event (historical, religious, or mythical)	3
13436972836	ambiguity	the multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage	4
13436972837	analogy	a similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them	5
13436972838	antecedent	the word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun (given in a long, complex sentence or in a group of sentences)	6
13436972839	antithesis	a figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other, such as "hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins"	7
13436972840	aphorism	a brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life	8
13436972841	apostrophe	address to an absent or imaginary person	9
13436972842	atmosphere	the emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author's choice of objects that are described	10
13436972843	caricature	a picture, description, or imitation of a person or thing in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect	11
13424638646	ad hominem argument	an argument attacking an individual's character rather than his or her position on an issue (appeals to emotion rather than intellect)	12
13424638647	allegory	a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.	13
13424638648	alliteration	the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.	14
13424638649	allusion	a reference to another work of literature, person, or event (historical, religious, or mythical)	15
13424638650	ambiguity	the multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage	16
13424638651	analogy	a similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them	17
13424638652	antecedent	the word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun (given in a long, complex sentence or in a group of sentences)	18
13424638653	antithesis	a figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other, such as "hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins"	19
13424638654	aphorism	a brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life	20
13424638655	apostrophe	address to an absent or imaginary person	21
13424638656	atmosphere	the emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author's choice of objects that are described	22
13424638657	caricature	a picture, description, or imitation of a person or thing in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect	23