AP Language: English Stuff Flashcards

13681030538	Prepositional phrase	A group of words that begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun	0
13681046783	Syntax	Set of rules, principles, and processes that govern the structure of sentences	1
13681051652	Antithesis	Exact opposite	2
13681056842	Euphemism	An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered too harsh	3
13681056843	Oxymoron	A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction	4
13681061555	Apostrophe	A figure of speech that is a direct address to an absent or imaginary person	5
13681067833	Reminiscence	Memory or act of recalling the past	6
13681071319	Diatribe	A bitter verbal attack	7
13681136621	Noun	A person, place, thing, or idea	8
13681136622	Compound noun	Single noun formed from two or more words	9
13681142915	Common noun	A general name for a person, place, or thing	10
13681142916	Proper noun	A specific person, place, thing, or idea	11
13681147987	Concrete noun	A physical person, place or thing that can be seen, heard, smelled, touched, or tasted	12
13681147988	Abstract noun	A noun denoting an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object.	13
13681153898	Pronoun	A word that takes the place of a noun	14
13681153899	Antecedent	The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.	15
13681162574	Personal pronoun	Refers to the one speaking, the one spoken to, or the one spoken about	16
13681166029	Subjective pronoun	A personal pronoun that is used as the subject of a sentence	17
13681176161	Objective pronoun	A pronoun that is the object of the verb	18
13681176162	Possessive pronoun	A pronoun used to indicate ownership.	19
13681180744	Demonstrative pronoun	A pronoun that points out a person, place, thing, or idea (this, that, these, those)	20
13681184754	Interrogative pronoun	A pronoun that asks a question (who, whom, whose, what, which)	21
13681184755	Adverb	A word that describes a verb	22
13681190608	Comparative adverbs	Compares two actions	23
13681190609	Preposition	A word that shows the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word	24
13681196947	Verb	An action word	25
13681196948	Helping verb	Helps the main verb express action or a state of being	26
13681201776	Action verb	A verb that shows that something is being done, a word that shows action.	27
13681208489	Linking verb	connects the subject to a word or word group that identifies or describes the subject (am, is, was, were)	28
13681212541	Adjective	A word that describes a noun	29
13681217398	Subject	Who or what the sentence is about	30
13681217399	Predicate	The part of a sentence or clause containing a verb and stating something about the subject	31
13681222853	Conjunctions	Words used to join words, phrases, or clauses (FANBOYS)	32
13681222854	Interjections	A word that expresses emotion	33
13681570554	Postposition	A grammatical word or morpheme that follows a noun phrase and indicates its relation in a clause or another noun phrase.	34
13731457517	Epigraph	The use of a quotation at the beginning of a work that hints at its theme	35
13731462100	Allegory	A story in which each aspect of the story has a symbolic meaning outside the tale itself.	36
13731464027	Allusion	A reference to another work of literature, person, or event	37
13731465575	Ambiguity	The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage.	38
13731466303	Aphorism	A concise statement/wise observation of a truth or principle	39
13731476059	Anaphora	The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses	40