AP Language Summer Assignment Flashcards

14723362547	Alliteration	The repetition of sounds, consonants in two or more neighboring words.	0
14723362548	Allusion	A reference to another work of literature, person, or event	1
14723362549	Anadiplosis	repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause	2
14723362550	Anaphora	the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses	3
14723362551	Anastrophe	Inversion of the natural or usual word order	4
14723362552	Antimetabole	Repetition of words in reverse order	5
14723362553	Antithesis	the direct opposite, a sharp contrast	6
14723362554	Aphorism	a concise statement of a truth or principle	7
14723362555	Apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.	8
14723362556	Apposition	a relationship between two or more words or phrases in which the two units are grammatically parallel and have the same referent	9
14723362557	Assonance	Repetition of vowel sounds	10
14723362558	Asyndeton	the omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence.	11
14723362559	Circumlocution	talking circles; statement is unnecessarily long and complicated	12
14723362560	Climax	the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex	13
14723362561	Consonance	Repetition of consonant sounds	14
14723362562	Denotation	The strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion attitude, or color.	15
14723362563	Connotation	an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.	16
14723362564	Diction	A writer's choice of words	17
14723362565	Ellipsis	three periods indicating the omission of words in a thought or quotation	18
14723362566	Epanalepsis	repeats the beginning word of a clause or sentence at the end	19
14723362567	Epistrophe	the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences	20
14723362568	Euphemism	An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant	21
14723362569	Extended Metaphor	A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout the work.	22
14723362570	Figures of Speech	words or phrases that describe one thing in terms of something else	23
14723362571	Foreshadowing	A warning or indication of a future event	24
14723362572	Hyperbole	A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement. A hyperbole can create irony.	25
14723362573	Imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	26
14723362574	Irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	27
14723362575	Verbal Irony	The words literally state the opposite of the writer's (or speaker's) true meaning.	28
14723362576	Situational Irony	The events turn out the opposite of what was expected.	29
14723362577	Dramatic Irony	when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't	30
14723362578	Malapropism	a word humorously misused	31
14723362579	Metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	32
14723362580	Mood	Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader	33
14723362581	Motivation	the reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way.	34
14723362582	Narration	the telling of a story in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama	35
14723362583	Onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	36
14723362584	Oxymoron	a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction	37
14723362585	Paradox	a statement that seems contradictory but is actually true	38
14723362586	Parallelism	similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	39
14723362587	Periphrasis	the use of indirect and circumlocutory speech or writing	40
14723362588	Personification	the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea	41
14723362589	Plot	sequence of events	42
14723362590	Point of View	the perspective from which a story is told	43
14723362591	Polysendeton	Deliberate use of many conjunctions	44
14723362592	Prosody	the patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry	45
14723362593	Protagonist	main character	46
14723362594	Pun	A play on words	47
14723362595	Repetition	Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis	48
14723362596	Rhetorical Question	A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer	49
14723362597	Rhyme	Repetition of similar sounds at the end of words	50
14723362598	Sarcasm	the use of irony to mock or convey contempt	51
14723362599	Satire	A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.	52
14723362600	Setting	The time and place of a story	53
14723362601	Shift or Turn	a change or movement in a piece resulting from an epiphany, realization, or insight gained by the speaker, a character, or the reader	54
14723362602	Simile	A comparison using like or as	55
14723362603	Sound Devices	stylistic techniques that convey meaning through sound	56
14723362604	Structure	the arrangement or framework of a sentence, paragraph, or entire work	57
14723362605	Style	describes the ways that the author uses words to establish mood, images, and meaning in the text	58
14723362606	Suspense	a state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen.	59
14723362607	Symbol	A thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.	60
14723362608	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	61
14723362609	Syntax	The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.	62
14723362610	Theme	Central idea of a work of literature	63
14723362611	Tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	64
14723362612	Understatement (Litotes)	Restraint or lack of emphasis in expression	65