AP Terms List 6 Flashcards

10783285377	Sarcasm	the use of irony to mock or convey contempt	0
10783291845	Satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.	1
10783299795	Semantics	The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words, their historical and psychological development, their connotations, and their relation to one another.	2
10783309729	Style	the choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work	3
10783323535	Subject Complement/Predicate Nominative	a noun, group of nouns, or noun clause that renames the subject. It, like the predicate adjective, follows a linking verb and is located in the predicate of the sentence. Example: Julia Roberts is a movie star. movie star = predicate nominative, as it renames the subject, Julia Roberts	4
10783335575	subordinate clause	A clause in a complex sentence that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence and that functions within the sentence as a noun or adjective or adverb	5
10783343623	Syllogism	a logical structure that uses the major premise and minor premise to reach a necessary conclusion	6
10783351755	Symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.	7
10783362174	Synecdoche	A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material for the thing made from it (as steel for sword).	8
10783369779	Synesthesia	describing one kind of sensation in terms of another ("a loud color", "a sweet sound")	9