AP English Language (Terms) Flashcards

14503659283	Alliteration	is where words begin with letters belonging to the same sound group	0
14503659284	Allusion	A reference to another work of literature, person, or event	1
14503659285	Analogy	A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way	2
14503659286	Anaphora	Repetition of the first word in a sentence pronouns	3
14503659287	Anecdote	A short and amusing or interesting story often proposed to support or demonstrate some point	4
14503659288	Annotation	a note of explanation or comment added to a text, diagram, or literary works	5
14503659289	Antecedent	The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun	6
14503659290	Antimetabole	Repetition of words in reverse order	7
14503659291	Antithesis	the direct opposite, a sharp contrast	8
14503659292	Aphorism	a concise statement of a truth or principle	9
14503659293	Archaic Diction	Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words. "beliefs for which our forebears fought"	10
14503659294	Argument	A statement put forth and supported by evidence; main point	11
14503659295	Assertion	a confident and forceful statement of fact or belief	12
14503659296	Assumption	A belief or statement taken for granted without proof	13
14503659297	Asyndeton	Writing without any conjunctions	14
14503659298	Attitude	A person's consistently favorable or unfavorable evaluations, feelings, and tendencies toward an object or idea	15
14503659333	Audience	the listener, viewer, or reader of a text	16
14503659334	Authority	the power or right to give orders, make decisions, and enforce obedience	17
14503659335	Bias	A particular preference or point of view that is personal, rather than scientific	18
14503659336	Cite	Identifying a part of a piece of writing as being derived from a source	19
14503659337	Claim	An assertion, usually supported by evidence	20
14503659338	Close Reading	the careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of a text	21
14503659299	Colloquialism	the use of informal words, phrases or even slang in a piece of writing	22
14503659300	Connotation	An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning	23
14503659339	Context	The circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and events surrounding a text	24
14503659340	Coordination	The ability to use two or more body parts together	25
14503659341	Deduction	reasoning from general to specific	26
14503659342	Counterargument	A challenge to a position; an opposing argument	27
14503659301	Denotation	The dictionary definition of a word	28
14503659302	Diction	The word choice and phrasing in a written or spoken text	29
14503659343	Documentation	The act of creating citations to identify resources used in writing, work, etc.	30
14503659344	Elegiac	Mourning that which is lost or past; sorrowful	31
14503659345	Epigram	A witty saying or expressing a single thought or observation	32
14503659346	Ethos	The moral element that determines a character's actions, rather than thought or emotion.	33
14503659303	Euphemism	An indirect, less offensive way of saying something that is considered unpleasant	34
14503659304	Foreshadowing	A narrative device that hints at coming events; often builds suspense or anxiety in the reader	35
14503659305	Figurative Language	Anything that's not meant literally	36
14503659347	Figure of Speech	An expression that strives for literary effect rather than conveying a literal meaning	37
14503659306	Hyperbole	Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally	38
14503659307	Idiom	A common, often used expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally	39
14503659308	Imagery	Sensory Details	40
14503659309	Irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	41
14503659310	Juxtaposition	Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts	42
14503659311	Jargon	Vocabulary distinctive to a particular group of people	43
14504955545	Kairos	A time when conditions are right for the accomplishment of a crucial action; the opportune and decisive moment	44
14503659348	Logos	Employs logical reasoning, combining a clear idea with well-thought-out and appropriate example and details	45
14503659312	Mood	The feeling you get as a reader	46
14503659313	Metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	47
14503659314	Metonymy	Using (a) related term(s) to discuss an idea(s)	48
14503659349	Occasion	An aspect of context; the cause or reason for writing.	49
14895002184	Onomatopoeia	A word that imitates the sound it represents	50
14503659315	Oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	51
14503659316	Pacing	How fast a story unfolds	52
14503659317	Paradox	A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth	53
14503659318	Parallelism	Two or more elements of a sentence have the same grammatical structure	54
14503659319	Parody	Imitation through exaggeration for comedic affect	55
14503659350	Pathos	Plays with the reader's emotions and interests	56
14503659351	Persona	Greek for "mask." The face or character that a speaker shows to his or her audience	57
14503659320	Personification	Giving human qualities to non-living things	58
14503659321	Polysyndeton	Using a lot of conjunctions	59
14503659352	Propaganda	Information, usually of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view	60
14503659353	Purpose	One's intention or objective in a speech or piece of writing	61
14503659354	Refute	To prove to be false	62
14503659322	Repetition	Strategic repeating of words for emphasis	63
14503659355	Rhetoric	The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques	64
14503659323	Rhetorical Question	A question posed to make a point, not for answering.	65
14503659324	Satire	The use of exaggeration, irony or humor to expose vices.	66
14503659356	Scheme	A pattern of words or sentence construction used for rhetorical effect	67
14503659325	Simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	68
14503659357	Source	A book, article, person, or other resource consulted for information	69
14503659358	Speaker	A term used for the author, speaker, or the person whose perspective (real or imagined) is being advanced in a speech or piece of writing	70
14503659326	Style	The way an author writes and/or tells a story	71
14503659359	Subject	The topic of a text; what the text is about	72
14503659360	Syllogism	A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion	73
14503659327	Symbolism	A representation of something more within a person/object	74
14503659361	Syntax	The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language	75
14503659362	Synthesize	Combine to form a more complex product	76
14503659328	Synesthesia	Describing something by crossing the senses (touch, smell, taste, etc.)	77
14503659329	Synechdoche	a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part	78
14503659363	Thesis	A statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved	79
14503659364	Thesis Statement	A statement of the central idea in a work, may be explicit or implicit	80
14503659330	Tone	The authors attitude toward the subject	81
14503659365	Trope	Artful diction; the use of language in a nonliteral way; also called a figure of speech	82
14503659366	Topic Sentence	A sentence that expresses the main idea of the paragraph in which it occurs	83
14503659331	Understatement	Deliberately representing something as much less important than it really is	84
14503659332	Vernacular	The dialect of a region	85
14503659367	Voice	A writers distinctive use of language	86
14503659368	Zeugma	a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (I.e. John and his license expired last week; with weeping eyes and hearts)	87