AP English Language Vocab Flashcards

15024414776	Ethos	credibility of the speaker	0
15024425647	Pathos	emotional appeal	1
15024425648	Logos	an appeal based on logic or reason and support to the argument	2
15024435252	Rhetoric	the art of using language effectively and persuasively	3
15024439950	Hyperbole	extreme exaggeration	4
15024443996	Antimetabole	Repetition of words in reverse order	5
15024453868	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole	6
15024458884	Exigence	an issue, problem, or situation that causes or prompts someone to write or speak	7
15024464017	Kairos	the right time for action; critical moment; due season; the moment of divine inspiration	8
15024478962	Explication de texte	the detailed analysis, or close reading of a passage of verse or prose. Such explication seeks to make meaning clear through a painstaking examination and explanation of style, language, symbolism, and the relationship of parts to the whole.	9
15024489315	Exodus	A mass departure	10
15024494030	Alliteration	the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.	11
15024499138	anagram	a word or phrase formed from another word or phrase by changing the order of the letters	12
15024502511	epitaph	a brief poem or other writing in praise of a deceased person	13
15024514581	Chiasmus	a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases	14
15024519285	Anaphora	repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines	15
15024526723	didactic	teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson.	16
15024529475	Allegory	a symbolic narrative	17
15024536758	Amplification	A statement, narrative, etc., so expanded	18
15024551733	Kenning	a conventional poetic phrase used for or in addition to the usual name of a person or thing	19
15024565604	Euphemism	the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt	20
15024575482	Negative Capability	when a writer is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason	21
15024592227	In Media Res	a piece of writing that begins in the middle of the action	22
15024599704	Characterization	The creation and convincing representation of fictitious characters, as in literary work	23
15024629531	Conflict	To come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash	24
15024648649	Connotation	the implied or associative meaning of a word	25
15024651875	Caesura	a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line	26
15024668385	Analogy	A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them.	27
15024674013	Anastrophe	Inversion of the usual order of words	28
15024690511	Anthropomorphism	the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object.	29
15024709340	Aphorism	a terse saying embodying a general truth, or astute observation	30
15024719718	Apostrophe	' to indicate the omission of one or more letters in a word, whether unpronounceable or pronounced, in the possessive case, or to indicate plurals of abbreviations or symbols	31
15024762556	Archetype	A collectively inherited unconscious idea, pattern of thought, image, etc., universally present in individual psyches	32
15024796442	Assonance	Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity	33
15024802961	bibliomancy	divination by opening a book at random	34
15024807852	cacophony	A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds	35
15024810478	Faulty Parallelism	a construction in which two or more parts of a sentence are roughly equivalent in meaning but not parallel (or grammatically similar) in form	36
15024822020	Flashback	A method of narration in which present action is temporarily interrupted so that the reader can witness past events	37
15024826243	Epithet	A descriptive name or phrase used to characterize someone or something	38
15024835561	euphony	agreeableness of sound; pleasing effect to the ear	39