AP Language Vocab 1 Flashcards
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| 14707884932 | ad hominem argument | argument that appeals to emotion rather than reason. | 0 | |
| 14707884933 | allegory | using story elements to represent an abstraction | 1 | |
| 14707884934 | alliteration | The repetition of sounds | 2 | |
| 14707884935 | allusion | something that is commonly known | 3 | |
| 14707884936 | ambiguity | The multiple meanings of a word | 4 | |
| 14707884937 | analogy | A similarity between two different things | 5 | |
| 14707884938 | antecedent | The word referred to by a pronoun. | 6 | |
| 14707884939 | antithesis | a contradiction of ideas | 7 | |
| 14707884940 | aphorism | statement that expresses a truth | 8 | |
| 14707884941 | apostrophe | addresses an absent person | 9 | |
| 14707884942 | atmosphere | The emotional mood created by a literary work | 10 | |
| 14707884943 | caricature | Subject's features are exaggerated | 11 |