AP Language Terms Flashcards

14559455993	Active Voice	The subject of the sentence actually does something. *Example: Ana Julia ran a mile.	0
14559455994	Adage	A wise saying that later on becomes a truth that many people *Example: work to live not live to work.	1
14559455995	Ad Hominem	Is when the persons argument attacks the other person instead of the argumentation. *Example: Because you smell bad I do not trust this soap you're trying to sell.	2
14559455996	Allegory	A story that contains a hidden meaning. *Example: The tortoise and the hare	3
14559455997	Alliteration	Is a special kind of repetition, where the first letters of several words are all the same. *Example: An Amazing Association of Alligators	4
14559455998	Allusion	When we refer to something without mentioning it directly. *Example: He's an old Scrooge	5
14559455999	Ampersand	The use of the symbol "&" *Example: Peroni & Co.	6
14559456000	Anadiplosis	Last word of a sentence begins in the following sentence. *Example: Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task.	7
14559456001	Analogy	Compares two things tat are similar in some important way. *Example: A student is to a new topic like a detective is to a case	8
14559456002	Anaphora	Repetition of a word or phrase. *Example: Every day, every night, every hour, I am going to the gym.	9
14559456003	Anecdote	A short story. *Example: Back in my day we were playing in the backyard, not inside the house.	10
14559456004	Antecedent	What a pronoun refers back to. *Example: My dog was ill, so I took her to the vet	11
14559456005	Antithesis	Opposite of the phrase being said *Example: Patience is bitter, bit it has a sweet fruit.	12
14559456006	Aphorism	There is a truth being revealed in a statement. *Example: The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.	13
14559456007	Apostrophe (Dramatic Term)	A figure of speech in which the writer speaks to someone who isn't either present or dead.	14
14559456008	Appositive	A phrase that defines more the following phrase. *Example: I chose one person, her, to organize the volunteers.	15
14559456009	Archetype	Has a common and recurring portrayal of a particular human culture of even race. *Example: When vampire books became popular, many authors tried to imitate the archetype of the most successful novel.	16
14559456010	Argumentation	States and defends a point of view. *Example: Lawyer presents an argument in his opening statement that details why his client is innocent.	17
14559456011	Assonance	Words repeat the same vowel, but the word starts with a different consonant. *Example: We light fire on the mountain.	18
14559456012	Asyndeton	Eliminates the association between phrases, but are all still grammatically correct. *Example: He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac.	19
14559456013	Auditory Imagery	Writer describes what is being heard. *Example: The doorbell rang and everyone got scared.	20
14559456014	Balanced Sentence	They have parallel structures meaning it creates a pattern in the sentence. *Example: He goes out onto the baseball field, spins around second base, and looks back at the academy.	21
14559456015	Bandwagon Appeals	Convinces the reader that he/she should agree with what the majority has agreed to. *Example: Everyone is voting for Ana Julia, so definitely she is the best presidential candidate.	22
14559456016	Begging the Question	To be able to assume ones initial point *Example: Killing people is wrong, so the death penalty is wrong.	23
14559456017	Burlesque	Using sarcasm or mockery *Example: President Trump being laughed at for how he sees immigrants.	24
14559456018	Cacophony	A combination of words that give a harsh or unpleasant sound. *Example: The sharp claws of the bird were scary.	25
14559456019	Caricature	Exaggeration of a persons looks and qualities *Example:	26
14559456020	Chiasmus	Order of words or phrases known also like A-B-B-A *Example: All for one, and one for all!	27
14559456021	Colloquialism	Is a word or phrase that is used in an informal language but its not used in an informal speech or writing. *Example: Gimme actually meaning give.	28
14559456022	Compound Sentence	Contains two or more independent clauses. *Example: The girl walked in the door, and her mother gave her a huge hug.	29
14559456023	Complex Sentence	Contains an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses. *Example: Metal robots are cool and look tough.	30
14559456024	Compound-Complex Sentence	Contains two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses. *Example: Because she had gotten there just in time, she was able to help her mother finish cooking dinner, so they were also able to play a quick game together.	31
14559456025	Connotation	An idea or feeling that a word communicates, which can casually color the word's meaning. *Example: Ana Julia is very blue.	32
14559456026	Consonance	The understanding among ideas or actions *Example: He ate seven sandwiches on a sunny Sunday last year.	33
14559456027	Concession	When you acknowledge that you are wrong or a point made by the other person. such as in an argument. *Example: "An individual does have his own right to freedom, but medical evidence proves that second-hand smoke is harmful. Nobody has the right to harm the health of another, and smoking does just that."	34
14559456028	Conditional Statement	Sentences that only are true in certain conditions. *Example: When I watch a movie, I like to eat popcorn.	35
14559456029	Counterargument	Reasons used to oppose an idea or argument *Example: Ice cream is the best food in the world but it makes you fat.	36
14559456030	Cumulative Sentence	A sentence which has a main idea and its modified by adding details to it. *Example: She returned the ring quickly and silently as though her decision was not based on hours of contemplating.	37
14559456031	Denotation	Is the definition of a word on the dictionary. *Example: The blueberry is very blue.	38
14559456032	Deduction	When we can be logically certain of the conclusion given that the details said must be true. *Example: All oranges are fruits All fruits grow on trees therefore, All oranges grow on trees.	39
14559456033	Diction	Word of choice. *Example: The presidents State of the Union Address is formal writing.	40
14559456034	Discourse	It a speech or writing about a specific subject *Example: Two politicians talking about current events.	41
14559456035	Dramatic Irony	The reader realizes something about the character in the book that the character doesn't. Example: Girl in a horror film hides in a closet where the killer just went (the audience knows the killer is there, but she does not).	42
14559456036	Ellipsis	Three dots that indicate a pause. *Example: I wish ... but that doesn't matter now.	43
14559456037	Ethos	The writers believability, its mostly used on ads in your TV or magazines. *Example: More doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette.	44
14559456038	Epanalepsis	The beginning of a sentence is also repeated at the end of that same sentence. *Example: The king is dead, long live the king!!	45
14559456039	Euphemism	A word that substitueds a more offensive word. *Example: He died in the hospital. He passed away in the hospital.	46
14559456040	Euphony	Sweetly melodious sounds that makes the poetry smooth and pleasant. *Example: With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run.	47
14559456041	Extended Metaphor	Its a comparison made with unlike things and it can be as long as a paragraph. *Example: Their heart was icy, their blood frosty.	48
14559456042	False Dilemma	Only two choices are shown but there can be more than those two. *Example: Love it or leave it.	49
14559456043	Figurative Language	Contains figures of speech to be interpreted imaginatively instead of literally. *Example: Its raining cats and dogs.	50
14559456044	Foreshadowing	Giving hints or clues of what might happen later on in the work. *Example: Symbolic shadow of Anakin being Darth Vader	51
14559456045	Gustatory Imagery	The writer describes what is being tasted. *Example: The tequila burned like liquid fire in her mouth as she swallowed the shot of alcohol.	52
14559456046	Hyperbole	Exaggeration *Example: Its impossible to complete this level.	53
14559456047	Hypophora	Is one of the types of a rhetorical question. *Example: I can make it to the gate in 3 seconds can you?	54
14559456048	Idiom	Expressions that have hidden meanings. *Example: I was about to quit when i heard my coach scream "Hang in there! You're almos there"	55
14559456049	Induction	When you reach your conclusion with your own reasoning. *Example: There were 5 brunettes and 9 blonds; therefore there are more blonds than brunetts.	56
14559456050	Invective	Writing that attacks, insults a person or topic. *Example: You stole all that Monopoly money from the bank. You're a dirty, lying cheater!	57
14559456051	Inversion	Putting the verb before the subject. *Example: Rarely does Ana Julia talk to herself.	58
14559456052	Isocolon	The repetition of similar gramatical forms. *Example: Many will enter. Few will win.	59
14559456053	Jargon	Words that are used for a particular topic, certain professions and groups use special vocabularies. *Example: Police Jargon- 10-4 means radio jargon meaning okay or I understand.	60
14559456054	Juxtaposition	Placing things close together so that it can be use for comparing and contrasting them. *Example: One character lives on the good side of town, while another lives just across the railroad tracks on the bad side of town	61
14559456055	Kairos	Builds a sense of urgency *Example: Limited time offer for this best dad coffee mug!!!	62
14559456056	Kinesthetic Imagery	The author helps the readers envision the movements and actions of the characters in the book. *Example: Tossing their heads in sprightly dance	63
14559456057	Litotes	Underestimate something or someone which the negative of the contrary is used. *Example: He is not a bad dancer.	64
14559456058	Logical Fallacy	Arguments that may sound convincing, but when you think about it more they make no sense. *Example: You can't prove Santa doesn't exist, therefore Santa does exist.	65
14559456059	Loose Sentence	The main idea is presented first and then it is followed by more clauses. *Example: It was obvious a storm was coming because of the lightning, thunder and calm in the air.	66
14559456060	Logos	Appeals to logic *Example: One in five women will be a victim of sexual assault during her college years.	67
14559456061	Metaphor	A figure of speech in which the action that is applied to something isn't actually literal. *Example: That child is a bear when he is sleepy.	68
14559456062	Metonymy	A figure of speech in which one word is closely associated with another. *Example: Crown=monarch/monarchy Suit=business man	69
14559456063	Mood	The emotional tone or atmosphere in a writing. *Example: The man kicked and threw the poor cat out of his house.	70
14559456064	Motif	A phrase or idea that keeps repeating itself in a work of literature. *Example: The wallpaper has a flower motif.	71
14559456065	Non-sequitur	An idea that fails to follow logically the previous idea. *Example: "How is the weather?" "It's 2:00 in the afternoon"	72
14559456066	Olfactory Imagery	The author helps the reader smell the odors and different scents in the story by describing them or mentioning them. *Example: The smell of the salty ocean air	73
14559456067	Onomatopeia	Words that imitate sounds *Example: BOOM	74
14559456068	Oxymoron	A combination of words that have contradicting meanings. *Example: You're such a big baby	75
14559456069	Parable	A story that may teach us a moral lesson *Example: The story about the boy who cried wolf, which is used to teach kids not to lie.	76
14559456070	Paradox	A statement that contradicts itself *Example: He was a brave coward.	77
14559456071	Parallelism	Using a pattern of words to show that two ideas have the same level of importance. *Example: In class, at work, and on the field, Martin strives for excellence.	78
14559456072	Parody	An imitation of a work meant to ridicule its style and subject. *Example: The film Scary Movie	79
14559456073	Passive Voice	Something happens to the subject of the sentence. *Example: The toy was chewed by the dog.	80
14559456074	Pathos	Sentences or statements that are made to create an emotional response to it. *Example: Ads with pictures of starving or wounded, poverty-stricken children, asking you to send money.	81
14559456075	Periodic Sentence	A sentence that expresses its main thought only at the end. *Example: I couldn't wait any longer, I went to sleep.	82
14559456076	Personification	A figure of speech that the author makes objects and animals human characteristics. *Example: The curtains danced in the breeze.	83
14559456077	Point of View	The perspective that the story is being told. *Example: Writers point of view	84
14559456078	Point of View: First Person	A narrator who is also a character in the story and tells it from his or her point of view. *Example: I am going to the ball.	85
14559456079	Point of View: Stream of consciousness	The author is trying to put the thoughts of the characters in its work. *Example: I should probably not eat this entire pizza by myself	86
14559456080	Point of View: Omniscient	The narrator knows all and can describe the points of view of many characters *Example: A story being told by several points of view	87
14559456081	Point of View: Limited omniscient	The narrator knows all the thoughts and feelings of just one character. *Example: I only know what you know	88
14559456082	Point of View: Third person	A narrator who is not a character in the story. *Example: She chose to eat that whole pizza by herself	89
14559456083	Polysyndeton	When the writer uses many conjunctions one after the other to create this sense of artistic writing. *Example: I love to spend my time with my mother and father and brother and sister.	90
14559456084	Premise	A statement in which allows the following statement be able to be inferred. *Example: A big-city cop moves to a small coastal town.	91
14559456085	Pun	Is a joke that uses the different meanings of a word or a play on words that sound alike *Example: You were right, so I left.	92
14559456086	Qualifier	A word/phrase that can come before an adjective/adverb. *Example: The building is pretty ugly and a little big for its surroundings	93
14559456087	Rebuttal	A refutation to an opposing arguments. *Example: I present exhibit C	94
14559456088	Red Herring	Is when an irrelevant topic is presented so that the attention would be focused else where and not on the original topic. *Example: When you are late getting home-past curfew-you distract your parents by talking to them about the weather-how cold it is, or how rainy it is.	95
14559456089	Rhetoric	When the writer uses an emotional effect to convince the readers. *Example: And what is so rare as a day in June?	96
14559456090	Rhetorical Modes	Is a way or method of presenting a subject through writing or speech.	97
14559456091	Rhetorical Modes: Exposition	Explain, analyze, or discuss an idea. *Example: Bob, a hungry little orphan, was looking for food on the streets of Brooklyn	98
14559456092	Rhetorical Modes: Description	To recreate or present with details *Example: It was a bright and sunny morning	99
14559456093	Rhetorical Modes: Narration	to relate an anecdote or story *Example: Robinson Crusoe is a narration told by the character Robinson about his experiences.	100
14559456094	Rhetorical Modes: Argumenation	To prove a point or to persuade *Example: In Inherit the Wind, characters like Cates and Drummond argue to get their point about evolution across.	101
14559456095	Rhetorical Modes: Cause and Effect	It takes a subject and shows its causes and its effects. More of like it explains the subject and at the end it displays its effect. *Example: Because Ana Ju ate that pizza she now has gained fat	102
14559456096	Rhetorical Question	A question asked which the audience already knows the answer to so there is no answer expected. *Example: It sure is hot today, isn't it?	103
14559456097	Sarcasm	Mocking someone with a ironic remark, it usually is intended to be offensive to the other person *Example: You dont say	104
14559456098	Satire	Its literary genre in which things are commented on and usually criticized. *Example: "In America, citizens have the right to bear arms." "Oh, so it's OK with you for hundreds of innocent kids to be killed each year with unregistered handguns??"	105
14559456099	Situation Irony	A situation described to us that is the opposite of what we expected it to be. *Example: Ralph wakes up late and thinks he is going to be late to school. After rushing around to get dressed, he realizes it is Saturday.	106
14559456100	Syllogism	Forming two arguments and arriving to a logical conclusion *Example: All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, socrates is mortal	107
14559456101	Symbolism	Using a shape/idea to represent something *Example: Heart eyes represents being in love	108
14559456102	Synecdoche	A figure of speech that is changing a word to an example of it *Example: Referring to a car as "wheels".	109
14559456103	Synesthesia	Its a way writers present their ideas or characters but having it appeal to more than one sense. *Example: Seeing a sharp pain, then picturing a bright flash of light.	110
14559456104	Syntax	The way words are being put in together so that they can form a coherent sentence. *Example: Jane ate a cake	111
14559456105	Tactile Imagery	The author helps the reader feel the texture of certain things. *Example: The bed linens might justa s well be ice and the clothes snow	112
14559456106	Telegraphic Sentence	A sentence shorter than 5 words *Example: Leave message	113
14559456107	Thermal Imagery	Description of the temperature *Example: I went outside and i could feel that is was freezing.	114
14559456108	Thesis Statement	The main idea on an essay or research *Example: The moral of this novel is that love always wins. (The essay would present evidence and reasons to support that this is the moral of the novel.)	115
14559456109	Tone	The way the writers uses his vocabulary towards what he is writing *Example: Some people might consider it mad to spend five hundred pounds on Christmas presents for their children.	116
14559456110	Tricolon	3 parts of a sentence that are equal/parallel *Example: Reduce, reuse, recycle	117
14559456111	Understatement	Thinking that something not be as big of a deal as it actually is. *Example: In the middle of an intense thunderstorm: "We're having a little rain."	118
14559456112	Verbal Irony	When you're saying something but you mean it in a totally different way. *Example: Looking at her son's messy room, Mom says, "Wow, you could win an award for cleanliness!"	119
14559456113	Vernacular	Its the kind of language used by the people of that country *Example: Che que pio vamo a hacer hoy?	120
14559456114	Visual Imagery	The reader is able to see/imagine what is going on in the story in their mind. *Example: I saw a green, shiny, no scratched car pass me by.	121
14559456115	Warrant	When the data is interpreted and it supports your claim/ideas. *Example: It is cool outside, therefore, i should wear my jacket, since it will keep me warm.	122
14559456116	Zeugma	A word that applies to another pair of words *Example: I have lost my keys and my mind.	123