AP Language Terms Flashcards

10489275785	abstract	relating to involving general ideas or qualities rather than specific people, objects or actions	0
10489278472	concrete	relating or involving specific people, things or actions rather than general ideas or qualities	1
10489280045	allegory	a story, fictional or nonfictional, in which characters, things and events represent qualities or concepts. the interaction of these characters, things and events is meant to reveal an abstraction or truth	2
10489287052	allusion	a direct/indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art; can be historical, literary, religious, topical, mythical,	3
10489318542	Ambiguity	the multiple meanings either intentional or unintentional of a word, phrase, sentence or passage	4
10489319410	Anacoluthon	a grammatical interruption or lack of implied sequence within a sentence	5
10489320017	Anadiplosis	repetition of the last word or phrase from a previous line, clause, or sentence at the beginning of the next	6
10489323432	Analogy	a comparison of one pair of variables to a parallel set of variables	7
10489323433	Anaphora	the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses or lines	8
10489324858	Anastrophe	transposition of normal word order; most often found in Latin in the case of prepositions and words they control	9
10489325962	Anecdote	a short narrative detailing particulars of an interesting episode or event (usually referred to incident)	10
10489327287	Anthimeria	substitution of one part of speech for another	11
10489328024	Antistrophe	repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of successive clauses	12
10489328793	Antithesis	opposition, or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction	13
10489331186	Aphorism	a terse statement which expresses a general truth or moral principle	14
10489332050	Aporia	expression of doubt (fake) by which a speaker appears uncertain as to what he should think or do	15
10489332881	Aposiopesis	a form of ellipse by which a speaker comes to an abrupt halt, seemingly overcome by passion or modesty	16
10489356735	Apostrophe	a sudden turn from the general audience to address a specific group or person or personified abstraction or present	17
10489356761	Appositive	word or group of words placed beside a noun or noun substitute to supplement its meaning	18
10489367994	Archaism	use of an older or obsolete form	19
10489367995	Assonance	repetition of the same sound in words close to each other	20
10489367996	Asyndeton	lack of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses or words	21
10489367997	Antanaclasis	a phrase or word is repeatedly used though the meaning of the word changes in each case	22
10489367998	balanced sentence	made up of two segments equal in length and importance and grammatical structure	23
10489367999	Brachylogy	a general term for abbreviated or condensed expression of which acetone and zeugma are types. ellipse used synonymously	24
10489368000	Cacophony	harsh joining of sound	25
10489368001	Catachresis	a harsh metaphor involving the use of a word beyond its strict fear	26
10489368002	Chiasmus	two corresponding pears not arranged in parallels (abab) but in inverted order (abba)	27
10489368003	complex sentence	sentences containing subordinate clause/s	28
10489368004	compound sentence	a sentence with more than one subject or predicate	29
10489368005	Connotation	implied meaning rather than literal meaning	30
10489494016	consonance	repetition of the same consonant sound at the end of words or within words	31
10489494017	counterexample	example that runs counter to a generalization that's falsifying it	32
10489494018	cumulative (loose) sentence	begins with a main clause that is followed by phrases or clauses that modify the main clause	33
10489494019	declarative	states an idea	34
10489494020	declarative sentence	states an idea- not a command	35
10489494021	denotation	literal explicit meaning of a word without connotations	36
10489494022	diction	word choice, element of style	37
10489494023	didactic	describe fiction, nonfiction or poetry that teaches a specific lesson or moral	38
10489494024	double entendre	word or expression that can be understood in two different ways	39
10489494025	dramatic irony	when the audience knows something the characters do not	40
10489494026	ellipsis	omission of a word or short phrase easily understood in context	41
10489494027	enthymeme	informal method of reasoning typical of rhetorical discourse (truncated syllogism)	42
10489494028	epanalepsis	repetition of the same word or clause after intervening matter, repetition at the end of a line phrase or clause	43
10489494029	epistrophe	ending a series of lines, phrases, clauses or sentences with same word or words	44
10489494030	epithet	a word or phrase that describes a person or thing	45
10489494031	epizeuxis	repetition of words in betweens for vehemence or emphasis	46
10489494032	ethos	credibility or being convinced by credibility of the author	47
10489494033	euphemism	substitution of an agreeable or at least not offensive expression for one whose planer meaning might be harsh or unpleasant	48
10489494034	farce	a funny play or movie about ridiculous situations and events	49
10489494035	hendiadys	use of two words connected by a conjunction, instead of subordinating one to the other, to express a single complex idea	50
10489494036	hypallage	" exchanging, transferred epithet" grammatical agreement of a word with another word which it does not logically qualify	51
10489494037	hyperbaton	separation of words which belong together often to emphasize the first of the separated words or to create a certain image	52
10489494038	hyperbole	exaggeration for emphasis or for rhetorical effect	53
10489494039	hysteron proteron	inversion of the natural stress the event which, the later in time, is considered important (" later- earlier")	54
10489494040	imperative	having the form that expresses a command rather than a statement or a question	55
10489494041	imperative sentence	issues a command	56
10489494042	interrogative sentence	sentences incorporated interrogative pronouns ( what, which, who, etc.)	57
10489494043	interrupt	to say something while someone is talking; to cause something to stop happening for a time	58
10489494044	invective	a long, emotionally violent, attack using strong, abusive language	59
10489494045	irony	expression of something which is contrary to the intended meaning; the words say one thing but mean another	60
10489494046	juxtaposition	placing things side-by-side for the purpose of comparison	61
10489494047	kairos	a propitious moment for decision or action	62
10489494048	lexiphanicism	use of pretentious words or language	63
10489494049	litotes	understatement, for intensification, by denying the contrary of the thing being affirmed	64
10489494050	logos	the principle of reason and judgment, associated with the animus	65
10489494051	macaronicism	a style of language in which latin forms and words are mixed with vernacular words	66
10489494052	malapropism	amusing error that occurs when a person mistakenly uses a word that sounds like another word but that has a very different meaning	67
10489494053	metaphor	implied comparison achieved through a figurative use of words; the word is used not in its literal sense, but in one analogous to it	68
10489494054	metonymy	substitution of one word for another which it suggest	69
10489494055	monosyndeton	stylistic device in which one coordinating conjunction is used in succession to achieve effect	70
10489494056	motif	recurring idea in a piece of literature	71
10489494057	neologism	a new word or expression or a new meaning of a word	72
10489494058	onomatopoeia	use the words to imitate natural sounds, accommodation of sound to sense	73
10489494059	oxymoron	apparent paradox achieved by the juxtaposition of words which seem to contradict one another	74
10489494060	paradox	assertion seemingly opposed to common sense, but that may yet have some truth in it	75
10489494061	parallelism	sentence construction which place is equal grammatical constructions near each other or repeats identical grammatical patterns	76
10489494062	paraprosdokian	surprise or unexpected ending of a phrase or series	77
10489494063	parentheses	a pair of marks () that are used around a word, phrase, sentence, or number -- usually plural	78
10489494064	parody	exaggerated imitation of a serious work for humorous purposes	79
10489494065	paronomasia	use of similar-sounding words, often etymological wordplay	80
10489494066	pathetic fallacy	the attribution of human feelings and things or animals	81
10489494067	pathos	a quality that causes people to feel sympathy and sadness	82
10489494068	pedantic	adjectives that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is scholarly, academic or bookish	83
10489494069	periodic sentence	a sentence that presents its central meaning and a main clause at the end	84
10489494070	periphrasis	substitution of a descriptive word or phrase for a proper name, shorthand	85
10489494071	pleonasm	use of superfluous or redundant words, often enriching in thought	86
10489494072	polemic	a strong written or spoken attack against someone else's opinions, beliefs, practices, etc.	87
10489494073	polyptoton	repeating a word, but in different form, using a cognate of a given word in close proximity	88
10489494074	polysyndeton	implying many conjunctions between clauses, often slaving the tempo or rhythm	89
10489494075	portmanteau	a word blending the sounds and combining the meaning of two others, ie motel or brunch	90
10489494076	praeteritio	pretended omission for rhetorical effect	91
10489494077	prolepsis	the anticipation, and adjectives or nouns, of the result of the action of a verb, also the positioning of a relative clause before its antecedent	92
10489494078	rhetorical question	a question that you ask without expecting an answer	93
10489494079	satire	a way of using humor to show that someone or something is foolish, weak, bad, etc.	94
10489494080	simile	and explicit comparison between two things using like or as	95
10489494081	situational irony	literary device that you can easily identify and works, occurs when incongruity appears between expectations of something to happen and what actually happens	96
10489494082	socratic irony	the pose of ignorance assumed in order to entice others into making statements that can be challenged	97
10489494083	subtext	and underlying and often distinct theme in a piece of writing or a conversation	98
10489494084	syllepsis	use of a word with two others, with each of which it is understood differently	99
10489494085	syllogism	a deductive system of formal logic. presents to premises that lead to a sound conclusion	100
10489494086	synchysis	interlocked word order	101
10489494087	synecdoche	understanding one thing with another, the use of a part for the whole, or whole for the part	102
10489494088	synesis	agreement of words according to logic and not by grammatical form	103
10489494089	synesthesia	production of a sense of impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulating of another sense or part of body	104
10489494090	tautology	repetition of an idea and a different word phrase or sentence	105
10489494091	telos	and ultimate object or aim	106
10489494092	tenor	the subject of a metaphor to which the subjects ascribed	107
10489494093	vehicle	object whose attributes are borrowed	108
10489494094	trope	word phrase or image used in a new and different way in order to create an artistic effect	109
10489494095	understatement	ironic minimizing of fact, understatement present something as less significant than it is	110
10489494096	verbal irony	where is express something contrary to truth or someone says the opposite of what they really feel or mean	111
10489494097	sarcasm	the use of irony to mock or convey contempt	112
10489494098	zeugma	two different words linked to a verb or adjectives which is strictly appropriate to only one of them	113