AP Language Flashcards
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| 13925927277 | Active voice: | subject of sentence performs the action | 0 | |
| 13925930088 | Passive voice: | subject of sentence receives the action | 1 | |
| 13925932946 | Allusion: | indirect reference to something with which the readers is supposed to be familiar | 2 | |
| 13925932947 | Alter-ego: | character used by the author to speak the author's own thoughts; author speaks directly to the audience through a character | 3 | |
| 13925941803 | Anecdote: | brief recounting of a relevant episode | 4 | |
| 13925944024 | Antecedent: | word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun | 5 | |
| 13925945799 | Classicism: | art or literature characterized by a realistic view of people and the world; sticks to traditional themes and structures | 6 | |
| 13925951009 | Comic relief: | when a humorous scene is inserted into a serious story to lighten the mood somewhat | 7 | |
| 13925954090 | Diction: | word choice | 8 | |
| 13925956004 | Colloquial: | ordinary or familiar type of conversation | 9 | |
| 13925956005 | Connotation: | associations suggested by a word rather than the dictionary definition. Implied meaning | 10 | |
| 13925959175 | Denotation: | the literal, explicit meaning of a word, without its connotations | 11 | |
| 13925961952 | Jargon: | diction used by a group which practices asimilar profession or activity | 12 | |
| 13925964932 | Vernacular: | Language or dialect of a particular country or language or dialect of a regional clan or group or plain everyday speech | 13 | |
| 13925966634 | Didactic: | term used to describe fiction, nonfiction or poetry that teaches a lesson | 14 | |
| 13925969358 | Adage: | a folk saying with a lesson | 15 | |
| 13925973379 | Allegory: | a story, fictional or non fictional, where characters, things, and events represent qualities or concepts. Interactions of characters, things, and events is meant to reveal an abstraction or a truth. | 16 | |
| 13925976613 | Aphorism: | terse statement which expresses a general truth or moral principle | 17 | |
| 13925979088 | Ellipsis: | the deliberate omission of a word or phrase from prose done for effect by the author. | 18 | |
| 13925980575 | Euphemism: | more agreeable or less offensive substitute for generally unpleasant words or concepts | 19 | |
| 13925982994 | Figurative Language: | writing that is not meant to be taken literally | 20 | |
| 13925986769 | Analogy: | comparison of one pair of variables to a parallel set of variables. | 21 | |
| 13925988784 | Hyperbole: | exaggeration | 22 | |
| 13925992954 | Idiom: | a common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally | 23 | |
| 13925992976 | Metaphor: | implied comparison, not using like or as or other such words | 24 | |
| 13925995672 | Metonymy: | replacing an actual word or idea, with a related word or concept | 25 | |
| 13925997402 | Synecdoche: | a kind of metonymy when a whole is represented by naming one of its parts, vice versa | 26 | |
| 13926003243 | Simile: | using words such as "like" or "as" to make a direct comparison between two very different things | 27 | |
| 13926011627 | Synesthesia: | a description involving a "crossing of the senses | 28 | |
| 13926013910 | Personification: | giving human like qualities to something that is not human | 29 | |
| 13926051932 | Foreshadowing: | when an author gives hints about what will occur later in a story. | 30 |