AP English Language Vocabulary Flashcards

14679352337	alliteration	the repetition of initial sounds in successive or neighboring words	0
14679352338	allusion	a reference to something literary, mythological, or historical that the author assumes the reader knows	1
14679352339	analogy	a comparison of two different things that are similar in some way	2
14679352340	anaphora	the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences	3
14679352342	antecedent	the word, phrase or clause to which a pronoun refers	4
14679352343	antithesis	a statement in which two opposing ideas are balanced in parallel structure ex: That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.	5
14679352345	apostrophe	a figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person, or some abstraction	6
14679352348	asyndeton	a construction in which elements are presented in a series without conjunctions	7
14679352352	colloquialism	informal words or expressions not usually acceptable in formal writing a word free from limitations or qualifications	8
14679352353	complex sentence	a sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause	9
14679352354	compound sentence	a sentence with two or more coordinate independent clauses, often joined by one or more conjunctions	10
14679352357	connotation	the implied or associative meaning of a word	11
14679352359	declarative sentence	a sentence that makes a statement or declaration	12
14679352361	denotation	the literal meaning of a word	13
14679352364	diction	the word choices made by a writer	14
14679352365	didactic	having the primary purpose of teaching or instructing	15
14679352372	exclamatory sentence	a sentence expressing strong feeling, usually punctuated with an exclamation mark	16
14679352374	figurative language	language employing one or more figures of speech (simile, metaphor, imagery, etc.)	17
14679352385	irony	incongruity between what is expected and what actually occurs	18
14679352386	jargon	the specialized language or vocabulary of a particular group or profession	19
14679352387	juxtaposition	placing two elements side by side to present a comparison or contrast	20
14679352388	litotes	a type of understatement in which an idea is expressed by negating its opposite ex: not bad!	21
14679352391	metaphor	a direct comparison of two different things	22
14679352392	metonymy	substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it ex: The pen is mightier than the sword.	23
14679352393	mood	the emotional atmosphere of a work	24
14679352395	narrative	a story or narrated account	25
14679352401	paradox	an apparently contradictory statement that actually contains some truth	26
14679352402	parallelism	the use of corresponding grammatical or syntactical forms	27
14679352406	pathos	the quality of a work that prompts the reader to feel emotion	28
14679352407	pedantic	characterized by an excessive display of learning or scholarship	29
14679352410	polysyndeton	the use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than is necessary or natural	30
14679352413	rhetorical question	a question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer	31
14679352419	simple sentence	a sentence consisting of one independent clause and no dependent clause	32
14679352422	syllogism	a three part deductive argument in which a conclusion is based on a major premise and a minor premise ex: All men are mortal. Minor premise: Socrates is a man.	33
14679352424	synecdoche	using one part of an object to represent the entire object ex: The soldiers were equipped with steel.	34
14679352425	syntax	the manner in which words are arranged into sentences	35
14679352428	tone	the attitude of a writer, usually implied, toward the subject or audience	36
14679432043	extended metaphor	a metaphor which extends over several lines or an entire poem	37
14679434743	dead metaphor	a metaphor that has been used so often that the comparison is no longer vivid	38
14679438905	mixed metaphor	a combination of two or more incompatible metaphors, which produces a ridiculous effect	39
14679448053	anastrophe	inverse of words in a sentence ex: yoda	40
14679453630	ambiguity	multiple meanings in a work, especially two that are incompatible	41
14679466486	voice	a writer's distinctive use of language	42
14679468373	logos	to convince an audience by use of logic or reason	43
14679473632	ethos	appeal to credibility	44
14679478675	telegraphic sentence	a sentence shorter than five words in length	45
14679479927	loose sentence	a sentence in which the main clause comes first, followed by further dependent grammatical units	46
14679485635	periodic sentence	sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end to create suspense	47
14679489992	oxymoron	a figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase	48
14679492669	imperative sentence	a sentence that gives a command	49
14679501233	interrogatory sentence	a sentence that asks a question	50
14679527071	epistrophe	the repetition of a word at the end of successiveclauses or sentences	51
14679537280	slang	an informal, often short-lived kind of language used in place of standard words	52
14679542467	semantics	the study of meaning in language	53
14679557713	expository writing	writing that explains or informs	54
14679560468	descriptive writing	writing that paints a picture of a person, place, thing, or idea	55
14679561677	argumentative writing	presents a claim, and supports the claim using an argument based on evidence	56
14679566004	concession	in argumentative writing, to agree to or to surrender to an opponent's point	57
14679572792	attitude	the writer's feelings about the subject that they are writing about	58