AP Language and Composition Terminology Flashcards

13727417378	Allegory	a narrative in which the characters, behavior, and even the setting demonstrate multiple levels of meaning and significance. Often allegory is a unified symbol or personified abstraction.	0
13727423937	Alliteration	the sequential repetition of a similar initial sound, usually applied to consonants, usually in closely proximate syllables.	1
13727431326	Allusion	a literary, historical, religious, or mythological reference.	2
13727434937	Anaphora	the regular repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases of clauses.	3
13727441418	Antithesis	the juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, grammatical structure, or ideas.	4
13727444494	Aphorism	a concise statement designed to make a point or illustrate a commonly held belief.	5
13727449402	Apostrophe	an address or invocation to something inanimate.	6
13727453038	Appeals to...authority, emotion, or logic	rhetorical arguments in which the speaker claims to be an authority or expert in the field, or attempts to play upon the emotions, or appeals to the use of reason.	7
13727474386	Assonance	the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually in successive or proximate words.	8
13727476894	Asyndeton	a syntactical structure in which conjunctions are omitted in a series, usually producing more rapid prose.	9
13727479746	Attitude	the sense expressed by the tone of voice or the mood of a piece of writing; the author's feelings toward his or her subject, characters, events, or theme. It might even be his or her feelings for the reader.	10
13727491697	Begging the question	an argumentative ploy where the arguer sidesteps the question or conflict, evades or ignores the real question.	11
13727493774	Canon	that which has been accepted as authentic.	12
13727496301	Chiasmus	a figure of speech and generally a syntactical structure wherein the order of the terms in the first half of a parallel clause is reversed in the second.	13
13727498697	Claim	in argumentation, an assertion of something as fact.	14
13727500936	Colloquial	a term identifying the diction of the common, ordinary folk, especially in a specific region or area.	15
13727504427	Comparison and Contrast	a mode of discourse in which two or more things are compared, contrasted, or both.	16
13727507192	Conceit	a comparison of two unlikely things that is drawn out within a piece of literature, in particular an extended metaphor within a poem. However, conceits can also be used in non-fiction and prose.	17
13727511006	Connotation	the implied, suggested, or underlying meaning of a word or phrase. It is opposite of denotation which is the "dictionary definition" of the word.	18
13727519977	Consonance	the repetition of two or more consonants with a change in the intervening vowel.	19
13727522737	Convention	an accepted manner, model, or tradition.	20
13727524776	Critique	an assessment or analysis of something such as a passage of writing, for the purpose of determining what it is, what its limitations are, and how it conforms to the standard of the genre.	21
13727528957	Deductive Reasoning (Deduction)	the method of arguing in which specific statements and conclusions are drawn from general principles: movement from the general to the specific, in contrast to inductive reasoning (induction.)	22
13727533410	Dialect	the language and speech idiosyncrasies of a specific area, region, or group.	23
13727536693	Diction	the specific word choice an author uses to persuade or convey tone, purpose, or effect.	24