AP Language Vocabulary Flashcards

14733202825	Analogy	comparison between two parallel cases	0
14733206929	Anecdotal Narration	shorty, simple narrative story or incident	1
14733216841	Metaphor	comparison not using like or as	2
14733219480	Simile	comparing two things using like or as	3
14733226743	Onomatopoeia	A word that sounds like what it means	4
14733230383	Personification	the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea	5
14733233686	Oxymoron	2 words of opposite meaning are put together for intentional effect	6
14733241881	Understatement	making something seem less important than it is	7
14733245559	Diction	word choice	8
14733247511	Irony	saying one thing and meaning another	9
14733258074	Hyperbole	exaggeration	10
14733260779	Pun	Words that have the same sound but 2 different meanings	11
14733295660	Litotes	form of understatement which uses a negative to convey the opposite meaning	12
14733302791	Metonymy	substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it	13
14733312762	Paradox	statement that seems self-contradictory	14
14733316009	Apostrophe	address to an absent or imaginary person	15
14733318424	Euphemism	pleasant way to say something inappropriate or uncomfortable	16
14744403371	Parrallelism	repetition of grammatical structure	17
14744407903	Antimetabole	Repetition of words in reverse order	18
14744411615	Climax	sentences/words/phrases are arranged in ascending order of importance	19
14748127038	Epanalepsis	repetition at the end of the sentence that occurred at the beginning	20
14748135347	Antithesis	the presentation of two contrasting images	21
14748135348	Anaphora	repetition of a word or phase at the beginning of 2 or more sentences in a row	22
14748138866	Alliteration	repetition of the same sound	23
14748141007	Assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds with words close together	24
14748144121	Consonance	repetitive sound within 2 or more words close together	25
14748147710	Juxtaposition	placement of 2 things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences	26
14748150347	Tone	The speaker's attitude toward the subject or audience	27
14748152837	Syntax	grammatical arrangement of words	28
14748153966	Parody	humor during a serious piece of writing	29
14748162194	Satire	using humor to criticize human flaws	30
14748166952	Epistle	a long, formal, instructive letter	31
14748168919	Epigram	short poem with a clever twist at the end	32
14748170609	Elegy	sad poem written in response to the death of someone	33
14748173196	Zeugma	use of a word to modify 2 or more words	34
14748181652	Polarity	having 2 opposite tendencies	35
14748190914	Epiphany	character's sudden insight into a conflict situation	36
14748299712	Ethos	the use of credibility and trust	37
14748357564	pathos	writer appeals to readers emotions	38
14748361222	logos	writer tries to persuade the audience using statistics, facts, and reasons	39
14748368284	rhetoric	finding ways to persuade an audience	40
14748370885	colloquialism	ordinary or familiar type of conversation	41
14748375232	cliche	phrase/idea thats overused and has lost its meaning	42
14748378848	inductive reasoning	uses patterns to come to a conclusion	43
14748381010	deductive reasoning	uses facts, rules, definitions to come to a conclusion	44
14748385511	loose sentnce	basic sentence with details added at the end of the basic sentence	45
14748390745	periodic sentence	sentence where added details are either before or in the middle of a basic sentence	46
14748398283	rhetorical questions	posed to make a point, not to be answered	47
14748402588	allusion	brief reference to a person, event, or place (real or fictitious) or to a work of art	48
14748412029	antecedent	word/noun that the pronoun replaces	49
14748495846	pedantic	someone who's concerned with the details of the subject , over shows their knowledge	50
14748501517	sarcasm	generally bitter comment that is ironically worded	51
14748503636	didactic literature	purpose is to teach/instruct formal and teach about morality	52
14748510773	point of view(perspective)	perspective from which a story is told	53
14748511952	persona	"mask". the face/character that a speaker shows to his/her audience	54
14748516959	genre	major category into which a literary work fits	55
14748519242	style	choice in diction, tone, and syntax that a writer makes	56
14748524562	synecdoche	figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole	57
14748528673	Polysyndeton	Deliberate use of many conjunctions	58
14748531112	Asyndeton	omission of conjunctions	59