AP LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION TERMS Flashcards

14718375262	Alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds	0
14718377241	Allusion	A reference to another work of literature, person, or event	1
14718379241	Anadiplosis	repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause	2
14718385493	Anaphora	repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines	3
14718388595	Anastrophe	Inversion of the natural or usual word order	4
14718393241	Antimetabole	Repetition of words in reverse order	5
14718396160	Antithesis	the direct opposite, a sharp contrast	6
14718398288	Aphorism	a concise statement of a truth or principle	7
14718401706	Apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.	8
14718407291	Apposition	a relationship between two or more words or phrases in which the two units are grammatically parallel and have the same referent	9
14718418486	Assonance	takes place when two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds.	10
14718420005	Asyndeton	omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words	11
14718424184	circumlocution	an indirect way of expressing something	12
14718428551	Climax	Most exciting moment of the story; turning point	13
14718432458	Consonance	agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions.	14
14718438769	Denotation and Connotation	the dictionary definition of a word/the associated feelings a word may call to mind	15
14718441290	Diction	word choice	16
14718447295	Ellipsis	in a sentence, the omission of a word or words replaced by three periods	17
14718452473	Epanalepsis	repeats the beginning word of a clause or sentence at the end	18
14718456469	Epistrophe	the repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences	19
14718459078	Euphemism	a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.	20
14718461992	extended metaphor	A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout a work.	21
14718465678	Figures of speech/figurative language	word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood on a literal level	22
14718472880	Foreshadowing	A warning or indication of a future event	23
14718474729	Hyperbole	exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.	24
14718476112	Imagry	visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.	25
14718477660	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	26
14718482183	situational irony	An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected	27
14718483746	dramatic irony	when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't	28
14718495725	malapropism	a word humorously misused	29
14718497746	Metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	30
14718500568	Mood	the atmosphere or predominant emotion in a literary work	31
14718506838	Motivation	a need or desire that energizes and directs behavior	32
14718509426	Narration	telling a story	33
14718518703	Onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents.	34
14718520483	Oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	35
14718522607	Paradox	A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.	36
14718527482	Parallelism	similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	37
14718533171	Periphrasis	substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name or of a proper name for a quality associated with the name	38
14718538290	Personification	the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea	39
14718540284	Plot	Sequence of events in a story	40
14718540285	point of view	the perspective from which a story is told	41
14718542711	Polysyndeton	Deliberate use of many conjunctions	42
14718547505	Prosody	the patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry	43
14718549693	Protagonist	the main character in a literary work	44
14718551276	Pun	A play on words	45
14718553697	Repetition	Repeated use of sounds, words, or ideas for effect and emphasis	46
14718555332	rhetorical question	A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer	47
14718557529	Rhyme	correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.	48
14718560486	Sarcasm	the use of irony to mock or convey contempt	49
14718562092	Satire	the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.	50
14718564020	Setting	The time and place of a story	51
14718566924	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	52
14718569345	Simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	53
14718572498	sound devices	Elements of literature that emphasize sound (e.g., assonance, consonance, alliteration, rhyme, onomatopoeia).	54
14718574767	structure	the arrangement or framework of a sentence, paragraph, or entire work	55
14718577473	Style	the choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work	56
14718579090	Suspense	A feeling of uncertainty and curiosity about what will happen next in a story; key element in fiction and drama; "hook" writer uses to keep audience interested	57
14718581365	Symbol	something that stands for something else	58
14718586524	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	59
14718591988	Syntax	The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.	60
14718593540	Theme	Central idea of a work of literature	61
14718595032	Tone	A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels.	62
14718596871	Understatement	the opposite of exaggeration. It is a technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended.	63