Ap Language summer homework Flashcards

14556253564	Ad hominem	In an argument, this is an attack on the person rather than on the opponent's ideas. It comes from the Latin meaning "against the man."	0
14556253565	Allegory	A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions	1
14556253566	Alliteration	the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.	2
14556253567	Allusion	A reference to another work of literature, person, or event	3
14556253568	Analogy	A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way	4
14556253569	Anaphora	the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses	5
14556253570	Anecdote	a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person	6
14556253571	Anti-climax	a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events	7
14556253572	Antithesis	the direct opposite, a sharp contrast	8
14556253573	Apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.	9
14556253574	Assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds	10
14556253575	Asyndeton	omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words	11
14556253576	Bias	prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.	12
14556253577	Colloquialism	informal words or expressions not usually acceptable in formal writing	13
14556253578	Concession	A reluctant acknowledgment or yielding.	14
14556253579	Connotation	All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests	15
14556253580	Deductive reasoning	the process of applying a general statement to specific facts or situations	16
14556253581	Denotation	The dictionary definition of a word	17
14556253582	Diction	word choice	18
14556253583	Didactic	intended to instruct	19
14556253584	Ellipsis	in a sentence, the omission of a word or words replaced by three periods	20
14556253585	Euphemism	An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant	21
14556253586	Fallacy	a false or mistaken idea	22
14556253587	Hyperbole	exaggeration	23
14556253588	Inductive reasoning	A type of logic in which generalizations are based on a large number of specific observations.	24
14556253589	Irony	the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning	25
14556253590	Juxtaposition	Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts	26
14556253591	Malapropism	a word humorously misused	27
14556253592	Metaphor	comparison not using like or as	28
14556253593	Metonymy	A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it	29
14556253594	Non-sequitur	something that does not logically follow	30
14556253595	Onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	31
14556253596	Oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	32
14556253597	Paradox	a contradiction or dilemma	33
14556253598	Pendantic	putting unnecessary stress on minor or purely academic knowledge	34
14556253599	Parallel structure	the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures	35
14556253600	Polysyndeton	Deliberate use of many conjunctions	36
14556253601	Post hoc, ergo propter hoc (after this, therefore because of this)	assumes that because two events occur close together in time, the first must be the cause of the second	37
14556253602	Red Herring	A fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion	38
14556253603	Rhetoric	the art of using language effectively and persuasively	39
14556253604	Similie	A comparison using "like" or "as"	40
14556253612	Slippery Slope		41
14556253613	Straw man argument		42
14556253605	Syllogism	A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.	43
14556253606	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	44
14556253607	Syntax	Sentence structure	45
14556253608	Thesis	a statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved.	46
14556253609	Tricolon	Sentence consisting of three parts of equal importance and length, usually three independent clauses.	47
14556253610	Understatement	the presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is.	48
14556253611	Zeugma	use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings	49