AP Language Terms List Flashcards

15274613102	Alliteration	repeating consonant sound in close proximity to others	0
15274613103	Allusion	a casual reference in literature to a person, place, event, or another passage of literature	1
15274613104	Anapest	a foot or unit of poetry consisting of two light syllables followed by a single stressed syllable	2
15274613105	Apostrophe	act of addressing some abstraction or personification that is not physically present	3
15274613106	Assonance	repeating identical or similar vowels in nearby	4
15274613107	Ballad	a narrative poem consisting of quatrains of iambic tetrameter alternating with iambic trimeter	5
15274613108	Blank verse	unrhymed lines of ten syllables each with the even-numbered syllables bearing accents	6
15274613109	Bildungrsroman	German term for a coming-of-age story	7
15274613110	Caesura	a pause separating phrases within lines of poetry	8
15274613111	Colloquialism	a word or phrase used in plain and relaxed speech but rarely found in formal	9
15274613112	Conceit	an elaborate or unusual comparison using unlikely metaphors, simile, hyperbole, or contradiction	10
15274613113	Connotation	additional meaning a word carries beyond its strict definition	11
15274613114	Consonance	alliteration in which the repeated consonants are marked by changes in intervening vowels	12
15274613115	Convention	a common feature that has become traditional or expected	13
15274613116	Couplet	two lines of the same metrical length that end in a rhyme to form a complete unit	14
15274613117	Dactyl	a three-syllable foot consisting of a heavy stress and two light stresses	15
15274613118	Denotation	the minimal, strict definition of a word as found in a dictionary	16
15274613119	Diction	the choice of a particular word as opposed to others	17
15274613120	Didactic	writing that seeks to overtly convince a reader of a particular point or lesson	18
15274613121	Dramatic monologue	a poem in which a poetic speaker addresses either the reader or an internal listener	19
15274613122	Dramatic Poem	a poem containing emotional, spiritual, and detailed elements	20
15274613123	Elegy	a poem dealing with the subject matter common to early Greco Roman poems	21
15274613124	Epiphany	a sudden flare into revelation of an ordinary object or sense	22
15274613125	Explication	the act of making clear or removing obscurity from the meaning of a word or symbol	23
15274613126	Figurative language	the use of something other than the literal meaning of words to express an idea	24
15274613127	Foil	a character that serves by contrast to highlight or emphasize opposing traits in another character	25
15274613128	Foot	a basic unit of meter consisting of a set number of strong stresses and light stresses	26
15274613129	Formulaic	consisting or containing a verbal formula or set of form of words	27
15274613130	Free verse	poetry based on the natural rhythms of phrases and normal pauses rather than constraints of meter	28
15274613131	Hubris	implying arrogance or excessive self-pride	29
15274613132	Hyperbole	exaggeration or overstatement	30
15274613133	Iamb	a unit or foot of poetry that consists of a lightly stressed syllable followed by a heavily stressed syllable	31
15274613134	Iambic pentameter	a lightly stressed syllable followed by a heavily stressed syllable, five feet long	32
15274613135	Imagery	sensory perceptions referred to through description, allusion, simile, and metaphor	33
15274613136	Internal rhyme	poetic device in which a word in the middle of a line rhymes with a word at the end	34
15274613137	Intrusive narrator	an omniscient narrator who reports on the events of a story and further, comments on it	35
15274613138	Irony	saying one thing and meaning another, verbal dramatic, and situational irony	36
15274613139	Leitmotif	used to designate a musical theme associated with a particular object, character, or emotion	37
15274613140	Literal	a passage, story, or text intended only as a factual account of a real historic event	38
15274613141	Litotes	a form of understatement using a negative statement	39
15274613142	Lyric	a short poem often only a dozen lines long, often designed to be set to music	40
15274613143	Metaphor	a comparison or analogy stated in a way as to imply that one object is another one	41
15274613144	Meter	a recognizable, varying patter of stressed syllables alternating with syllables of less stress	42
15274613145	Metonymy/synecdoche	a specific physical object used as a vague suggestive symbol for a more general idea	43
15274613146	Monologue	a character speaking aloud to himself, narrating an account for the audience alone	44
15274613147	Mood	feeling, emotional state, or disposition of mind	45
15274613148	Motif	a conspicuous recurring element such as an incident, device, reference or verbal formula	46
15274613149	Narrative poem	a poem that has a plot including epics, ballads, idylls, and lays	47
15274613150	Narrator	the voice that speaks or tells a story	48
15274613151	Octave	a set of eight lines that rhyme according to the pattern ABBAABBA	49
15274613152	Ode	a long, elaborate poem of varying line lengths with a serious subject matter	50
15274613153	Onomatopoeia	The use of sounds that are similar to the noise they represent for a rhetorical or artistic effect	51
15274613154	Oxymoron	a figure of speech that produces an incongruous seemingly self-contradictory effect	52
15274613155	Parable	a story or short narrative designed to reveal allegorically some religious principle, lesson, or truth	53
15274613156	Paradox	Using contradiction in a manner that oddly makes sense on a deeper level	54
15274613157	Paraphrase	a brief restatement in one's own words of all or part of a literary or critical work	55
15274613158	Parody	a parody imitates the manner and characteristic features of a particular work in order to mock it	56
15274613159	Pathos	elements used to inspire an emotional reaction	57
15274613160	Persona	an external representation of oneself which might or might not accurately reflect one's inner self	58
15274613161	Personification	a device through which animals, ideas, and inanimate objects are given human characteristics	59
15274613162	Prosody	the mechanics of verse poetry - sounds, rhythms, scansion, meter, stanzaic form, alliteration, rhyme	60
15274613163	Pun	a play on two words similar in sound but different in meaning	61
15274613164	Quatrain	a stanza of four lines, often rhyming in an ABAB pattern	62
15274613165	Refrain	A line or set of lines at the end of a stanza or section of a longer poem, repeated at regular intervals	63
15274613166	Rhyme	a matching similarity of sounds in two or more words	64
15274613167	Rhyme scheme	the pattern of rhyme	65
15274613168	Rhythm	the varying speed, loudness, pitch, elevation, intensity, and expressiveness of speech or poetry	66
15274613169	Satire	An attack on or criticism of any stupidity or vice in the form of scathing humor, or a critique	67
15274613170	Scansion	the act of scanning a poem to determine its meter	68
15274613171	Sestet	six lines that rhyme with a varying pattern such as CDECDE or CDCCDC	69
15274613172	Soliloquy	a monologue spoken by an actor at a point in the play when the character believes to be alone	70
15274613173	Sonnet	a lyric poem of fourteen lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with the rhymes arranged according to pattern	71
15274613174	Spondee	a metrical foot consisting of two successive strong beats	72
15274613175	Stanza	an arrangement of lines of verse in a pattern usually repeated throughout the poem	73
15274613176	Stress	the emphasis, length and loudness that mark one syllable as more pronounced than another	74
15274613177	Style	the author's words and the characteristic way that writer uses language to achieve certain effects	75
15274613178	Subplot	A minor or subordinate secondary plot	76
15274613179	Symbol	A word, place, character, or object that means something beyond what it is on a literal level	77
15274613180	Symbolism	the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities	78
15274613181	Syntax	the standard word order and sentence structure of a language	79
15274613182	Theme	A central idea or statement that unifies and controls an entire literary work	80
15274613183	Tone	The means of creating a relationship or conveying an attitude or mood	81
15274613184	Trochee	A two-syllable unit or foot of poetry consisting of a heavy stress followed by a light stress	82
15274613185	Verse	A line of metrical writing, a stanza, or, a piece written in meter	83
15274613186	End rhyme	rhyme in which the last word at the end of each verse is the word that rhymes	84
15274613187	Allegory	A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions	85
15274613188	Slippery Slope	Event X occured, therefore Y will inevitably happen. Assuming something is wrong because it is next, or could slide toward, something that is wrong. An old saying - "if you allow a camel to poke his nose into the tent, soon the whole camel will follow."	86
15274613189	Simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	87
15274613190	Straw Man	Ignoring a person's actual position, attacking an exaggerated version of an opponent's position.	88
15274613191	Imagery	language that appeals to the senses	89
15274613192	Red Herring	Using an irrelevant topic to divert attention, avoiding having to defend a claim or follow up on a promise.	90
15274613193	Inference	A conclusion one can draw from the presented details.	91
15274613194	Hasty Generalization	X% of all As are Bs, therefore, all As are Bs. A person draws a conclusion about a population based on a sample that is not large enough.	92
15274613195	Verbal Irony	sarcasm	93
15274613196	Post Hoc	A occurs before B, therefore A causes B. An assumption that the first thing caused the second simply because of the sequence of the two things that happened.	94
15274613197	Situational Irony	An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected	95
15274613198	Contradictory Premises	When the premises of the argument contradict one another, therefore creating no argument.	96
15274613199	Dramatic Irony	when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't	97
15274613200	Ad Misericordiam	sometimes called "The Galileo Argument"- the speaker wants you to know that he/she is suffering enough, therefore you should agree with him/her.	98
15274613201	Point of View	the perspective from which a story is told	99
15274613202	False Analogy	comparison of two situations that have nothing to do with one another. The arguer claims the situations are highly similar, but they aren't.	100
15274613203	Setting	The time and place of a story	101
15274613204	Hypothesis Contrary	Arguing from something that might have happened, but didn't. Using the "What if _" statement.	102
15274613205	Poisoning the Well	Discrediting a person's claim by presenting unfavorable information (true or false) about the person. Person B attacking person A before Person A can make his/her claim.	103
15274613206	Ad Hominem	An argument based on emotion rather than logic where the arguer attacks irrelevant fact about the person instead of his/her argument.	104
15274613207	Equivocation	ambiguous and misleading language. Using a word to mean one thing, and then later using it to mean something else.	105
15274613208	Circular Reasoning	An argumentative ploy where the arguer sidesteps the question or conflict by reasoning in a circle. The thing to be proved is used as one of your assumptions.	106
15274613209	Deductive Reasoning	A method of argument by which specific statements and conclusions are drawn from general principles: movement from the general to the specific.	107
15274613210	Inductive Reasoning	Arguments moving from the specific to the general	108
15274613211	Ad Populum	a misconception that a widespread occurrence of something is assumed to make an idea true or right	109
15274613212	Begging the Question	taking for granted something that really needs proving, considered a form of circular reasoning as the truth of the conclusion is assumed as part of the response	110
15274613213	Either/Or Reasoning	the tendency to see an issue as having only two sides	111
15274613214	Non Sequitur	an inference or conclusion that does not logically follow established premises or evidence that preceded it	112
15274613215	Dicto Simpliciter	an argument based on an unqualified or sweeping generalization in which a general rule is applied to a situation and acceptable exceptions are ignored	113
15274680856	Warrant	to justify	114
15274692437	Homily	a sermon	115
15274703341	Invective	abusive language	116
15274706024	Metonymy	substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it	117
15274710969	Parallelism	similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	118
15274713623	Pendantic Language	Narrow focus on the trivial aspects to try to impress people	119
15274724365	Ambiguous Language	words that can have more than one meaning	120
15274724366	Analogy	comparison	121
15274727502	Aphorism	a concise statement of a truth or principle	122
15274730944	Syllogism	three-part deduction	123