ap language rhetorical terms Flashcards

14806929683	allegory	the device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning	0
14806934124	alliteration	the repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words	1
14806953025	allusion	a direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art	2
14806957940	ambiguity	the multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage	3
14806964401	anadiplosis	repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause	4
14806966594	analogy	a similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them	5
14806969971	anaphora	one of the devices of repetition, in which the same expression (word or words) is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences	6
14806973391	anecdote	a short narrative detailing particulars of an interesting episode or event, refers to an incident in the life of a person	7
14806979652	antecedent	the word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun	8
14806984187	aphorism	a terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle	9
14806986930	apostrophe	a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love	10
14806991185	atmosphere	the emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author's choice of objects that are described	11
14806995887	clause	a grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb	12
14806999466	colloquial/colloquialism	the use of slang or informalities in speech or writing	13
14807000481	conceit	a fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects	14
14807002764	connotation	the nonliteral, associative meaning of a word; the implied, suggested meaning.	15
14807007684	denotation	the strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion, attitude, or color	16
14807013024	diciton	related to style, diction refers to the writer's word choices, especially with regard to their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness	17
14807016983	didactic	primary aim of teaching or instructing, especially the teaching of moral or ethical principles	18
14807020421	epistrophe	the opposite of anaphors, repetition at the end of successive clauses	19
14807022904	euphemism	a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept	20
14807026199	exposition	to explain something, introductory material, which creates the tone, gives the setting, and introduces the characters and conflict	21
14807043089	extended metaphor	a metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work	22
14807045470	figurative language	writing or speech that is not intended to carry literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid	23
14807046628	figure of speech	a device used to produce figurative language	24
14807048719	genre	the major category into which a literary work fits	25
14807051558	homily	includes any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice	26
14807054404	hyperbole	a figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement	27
14807059106	imagery	the sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions	28
14807060385	inference/infer	to draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented	29
14807061922	invective	an emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language	30
14807065259	irony/ironic	the contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant	31
14807067126	loose sentence	a type of sentence in which the main idea (independent clause) comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units	32
14807076523	metaphor	a figure of speech using implied comparison of seemingly unlike things or the substitution of one for the other, suggesting some similarity	33
14807079725	metonymy	a figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it	34
14807087366	mood	first meaning deals with verbal units and a speaker's attitude, the second meaning the prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a work	35
14807097909	onomatopoeia	a figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words	36
14807101071	oxymoron	a figure of speech wherein the author groups apparently contradictory terms to suggest a paradox	37
14807108963	paradox	A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity	38
14807116220	parallelism	rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity	39
14807122215	parody	a work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/or ridicule	40
14807123428	periodic sentence	a sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end	41
14807126396	personification	a figure of speech in which the author presents or describes concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions	42
14807130548	point of view	the perspective from which a story is told	43
14807133704	prose	refers to fiction and nonfiction, including all its forms	44
14807135479	repetition	the duplication, either exact or approximate, of any element of language, such as a sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence, or grammatical pattern	45
14807137215	rhetor	the speaker who uses elements of rhetoric effectively in oral or written test	46
14807139971	rhetoric	describes the principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively	47
14807142313	rhetorical modes	This flexible term describes the variety, the conventions, and the purposes of the major kinds of writing including exposition, description, narration, argumentation	48
14807150620	sarcasm	bitter, caustic language that is meant to hurt or ridicule someone or something	49
14807151738	satire	a work that targets human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule	50
14807154079	semantics	the branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words, their historical and psychological development, their connotations, and their relation to one another	51
14807155822	style	the choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work	52
14807162316	subject complement	the word (with any accompanying phrases) or clause that follows a linking verb and complements, or completes, the subject of the sentence by either (1) renaming it (the predicate nominative) or (2) describing it (the predicate adjective)	53
14807167903	subordinate clause	this word group contains a subject and a verb, but it cannot stand alone; it does not express a complete thought	54
14807171918	syllogism	deductive reasoning in which a conclusion is derived from two premises	55
14807174864	symbol/symbolism	anything that represents itself and stands for something else	56
14807175985	syntax	the way the author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences	57
14807179150	theme	the central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life	58
14807182927	thesis	the sentence or group of sentences that directly expresses the author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or position	59
14807184879	tone	the author's attitude toward the subject	60
14807189427	transition	a word or phrase that links different ideas	61
14807189428	trope	an artful variation from expected modes of expression of thoughts and ideas	62
14807191086	understatement	the ironic minimizing of fact, presents something as less significant than it is	63
14807192787	undertone	an attitude that may lie under the ostensible tone of the piece	64
14807195875	unreliable narrator	an untrustworthy or naive commentator on events and characters in a story	65
14807199888	wit	intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights	66
14807200611	zeugma	a trope, one word (usually a noun or main verb) governs two other words not related in meaning	67