AP Vocabulary List #4 Flashcards
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| 15324348481 | abstract | An abbreviated synopsis of a longer work of scholarship or research. (adj.) Dealing with or tending to deal with a subject apart from a particular or specific instance. | 0 | |
| 15324353343 | bibliography | A list of works cited or otherwise relevant to a particular work. | 1 | |
| 15324364544 | coherence | A principle demanding that the parts of any composition be arranged so that the meaning of the whole may be immediately clear and intelligible. | 2 | |
| 15324364545 | concrete detail | A highly specific, particular, often real, actual, or tangible detail; the opposite of abstract. | 3 | |
| 15324381947 | documentation | Bibliographic information about the sources used in a piece of writing. | 4 | |
| 15324386460 | explication | The interpretation or analysis of a text. | 5 | |
| 15324395476 | footnote | A note of reference, explanation, or comment usually placed below the text on a printed page. | 6 | |
| 15324395477 | frame | a structure that provides premise or setting for a narrative | 7 | |
| 15324407603 | indirect quotation | A rendering of a quotation in which actual words are not stated but only approximated or paraphrased. | 8 | |
| 15324407604 | mode | The general form, pattern, and manner of expression of a text. | 9 | |
| 15324424171 | paraphrase | A version of a text put into simpler, everyday words or summarized for brevity. | 10 | |
| 15324429185 | persona | The speaker, voice, or character assumed by the author of a piece of writing. | 11 | |
| 15324434104 | point of view | The relation in which a narrator or speaker stands to a subject of discourse. | 12 | |
| 15324441328 | prose | Any writing that is not poetry | 13 | |
| 15324452932 | rebuttal/refutation | The part of discourse wherein opposing arguments are anticipated and answered. | 14 | |
| 15324456546 | reiteration | Repetition of an idea using different words, often for emphasis or other effect. | 15 | |
| 15324462860 | retraction | The withdrawal of a previously stated idea or opinion. | 16 | |
| 15324472880 | rhetorical modes | Patterns of organization developed to achieve a specific purpose: they include but are not limited to narration, description, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, definition, example, classification, division, process analysis, and argumentation. The terms is also used flexibly to describes the variety, the conventions, and purposes of the major kinds of writing. | 17 | |
| 15324479660 | subtext | The implied meaning that underlies the main meaning of an essay or their work. | 18 | |
| 15324488168 | thesis | The main idea of a piece of discourse; the statement or proposition that a speaker or writer wishes to advance, illustrate, prove, or defend. | 19 | |
| 15324495857 | voice | The real or assumed personality used by a writer or speaker. In grammar, it is active when it expresses an action performed by its subject, and it is passive when it expresses an action performed upon its subject or when the subject is the result of the action. | 20 | |
| 15324505527 | undertone | attitude that may lie under the ostensible tone of the piece | 21 |