ap language Flashcards

14817243705	Ad hoc	Temporarily for a single purpose	0
14817243706	Ad hominem	Arguing through personal attack	1
14817243707	Allegory	Parallel symbolic stories	2
14817243708	Alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds	3
14817243709	Allusion	Indirect reference to a literary	4
14817243710	Ambiguity	Multiple meanings	5
14817243711	Analogy	A comparison to illustrate	6
14817243712	anecdote	A short illustrated true story	7
14817243713	antecedent	The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.	8
14817243714	Antithesis	Direct opposite	9
14817243715	Aphorism	A short meaningful phrase	10
14817243716	Apostrophe	Language that directly addresses an absent, dead, or imaginary person	11
14817243717	atmosphere	The mood of piece	12
14817243718	Caricature	A description the exaggerates	13
14817243719	Colloquialism	Slang	14
14817243720	Conceit	An outward facade	15
14817243721	Connotation	the implied meaning of a word	16
14817243722	Denotation	the literal meaning of a word	17
14817243723	Diction	word choice	18
14817243724	Didactic	Lecture like	19
14817243725	Euphemism	Nice phrase for an unpleasant concept	20
14817243726	extended metaphor	A metaphor extending more than a couple of sentences.	21
14817243727	Homily	Sermon	22
14817243728	Hyperbole	extreme exaggeration	23
14817243729	infer/inference	educated guess	24
14817243730	Invecative	An angry tirade	25
14817243731	figurative language	writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally	26
14817243732	Irony	the opposite of what is expected	27
14817243733	Metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	28
14817243734	Mood	The emotion of the author	29
14817243735	Narrative	A "story like" rendering	30
14817243736	Oxymoron	Linking two words with opposite meaning	31
14817243737	Paradox	A seemingly impossible situation that is true	32
14817243738	Parasitism/parallel structure	The similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	33
14817243739	Parody	A exaggerated portrayal of the situation	34
14817243740	pedantic	Overly nit-picky	35
14817243741	Personification	Giving human traits to a non human	36
14817243742	point of view	The perspective from which an essay or story is told	37
14817243743	Prose	All non-poetic writing	38
14817243756	Repitition	the act of repeating something that has already been said or written	39
14817243744	Rhetoric	the art of using language effectively	40
14817243745	Sarcasm	Verbal irony intended to insult	41
14817243746	Satire	A seemingly serious piece	42
14817243747	Semantics	The meaning of nuances of language	43
14817243748	Simile	A figurative comparison using like or as	44
14817243749	Syllogism	A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.	45
14817243750	Syntax	Sentence structure	46
14817243751	Theme	A universal statement about humanity	47
14817243752	Tone	The authors attitude	48
14817243753	Understatement	Making something seem less important	49
14817243754	Wit	Creative and perceptive humor	50
14817303496	inherent	Built-in	51
14817303497	Indict	to accuse	52
14817303498	irreverent	Not proper, disrespectful	53
14817303499	laudatory	Supportive, congratulatory	54
14817303500	qualified	Not fully	55
14817303501	polemic	Bold, passionate	56
14817303502	dogmatic	Clinging to beliefs	57
14817303503	erudite	learned; scholarly	58
14817303504	equivocal	ambiguous	59
14817303505	strident	forceful	60