AP Language Terms 1 Flashcards

14727545935	Allegory	A narrative in which the characters, behavior, and setting demonstrates multiple levels of meaning and significance. A universal symbol or a personified abstraction.	0
14727560757	Alliteration	The repetition of a similar initial sound, usually applied to consonants, usually in closely proximate stressed syllables.	1
14727582232	Allusion	A literary, historical, religious, or mythological reference in a literary work.	2
14727591470	Anaphora	the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses	3
14727596878	Antithesis	The juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, grammatical structure, or ideas.	4
14727613409	Aphorism	A concise statement designed to make a point or illustrate a commonly held belief	5
14727624037	Appeals to: authority, emotion, logic	Rhetorical arguments in which the speaker claims to be an authority or expert in a field, or attempts to play upon the emotions, or appeals to the use of reason	6
14727626235	Apostrophe	An address or invocation to something inanimate	7
14727630406	Assonance	Repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually in successive or proximate words.	8
14727648468	Asyndeton	A syntactical structure in which conjunctions are omitted in a series, usually producing more rapid prose	9
14727653238	Attitude	the sense expressed by the tone of voice and/or the mood of a piece of writing; the authors feelings toward his or her subject, characters, events, or theme. It might even be his or her feelings for the reader.	10
14727669570	Begging the question	An argumentative ploy where the arguer sidesteps the question or the conflict, evades or ignores the real question	11
14727675245	Canon	That which has been accepted as authentic	12
14727680840	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
14727687830	Colloquial	A term identifying the diction of the common, ordinary folks, especially in a specific region or area.	14