AP Language and Composition Vocabulary Flashcards

14623039442	abstract language	language describing ideas and qualities rather than observable or specific things, people, or places	0
14623039443	active voice	the subject of the sentence performs the action	1
14623039444	ad hominem	when a writer personally attacks his or his opponents instead of their arguments	2
14623039445	allegory	a story, fictional or non fictional, in which characters, things, and events represent qualities or concepts	3
14623039446	alliteration	repetition of initial consonant sounds	4
14623039447	allusion	a reference to another well know work of literature, person, or event	5
14623039448	ambiguity	an event or situation that may be interpreted in more than one way	6
14623039449	analogy	a comparison of two different things that are similar in some way	7
14623039450	anaphora	the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses	8
14623039451	anecdote	a brief recounting of a relevant episode	9
14682088830	annotation	notes added to a text to explain, cite sources, or give bibliographical data	10
14682094961	antecedent	the word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun	11
14682099901	antithesis	two opposite words, phrases, or clauses or even ideas	12
14682106368	aphorism	a terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle	13
14682112005	apostrophe	a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love	14
14682113560	appositive	a word or group of words placed beside a noun or noun substitute to supplement its meaning	15
14682130069	argumentation	to proved the validity of an idea, or a point of view, by presenting good sounding reasoning, discussion and argument to convince the reader	16
14682137933	assonance	repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity	17
14682141903	casual relationship	a writer asserts that one thing results from another	18
14682144708	clause	a grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb	19
14706147919	colloquial	familiar type of conversation	20
14706149766	colloquialism	a common type of saying	21
14706151539	concession	accepting at least part or all of an opposing view	22
14706156387	concrete language	language that describes specific, observable things, people or places, rather than ideas or qualities	23
14706160055	connotation	rather than the dictionary definition, the associations suggested by a word	24
14706165226	consonance	repetition of a consonant sound within two or more words in close proximity	25
14706170585	coordination	combining sentences into one single sentence	26
14706173148	deduction	moving from general statements we accept as true, to an inevitable conclusion	27
14706176671	denotation	to signify or stand as a name for, the explicit meaning of a word	28
14706181442	description	to recreate, invent, or visually present to a person, place, event, or action so that the reader can picture that being described	29
14806849224	diction	word choice	30
14806850698	didactic	used to describe fiction, nonfiction or poetry that teaches a specific lesson	31
14806856297	emotional appeal	when a writer appeals to an audience's emotions	32
14806859663	epigraph	a quotation or aphorism at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of theme	33
14806864025	ethical appeal	a writer tries to persuade the audience to respect and believe him based on presentation of image of self through the text	34
14806882742	euphemism	a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for generally unpleasant words or concepts	35
14806886742	explication	the act of interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text	36
14806890759	exposition	to explain and analyze information by presenting an idea, relevant evidence, and appropriate discussion	37
14806898146	false analogy	when two cases are not sufficiently parallel to lead readers to accept a claim of connection between them	38
14806905177	figurative language	words that are inaccurate literally but call to mind sensation or evoke reactions	39