AP words Flashcards

14647907324	Appeals	earnest request for aid, support, sympathy, mercy	0
14647907325	Assessment	evaluation	1
14647907326	Audience	the listener, viewer, or reader of a text	2
14647907327	attitude	manner, disposition, feeling, position, etc., with regard to a person or thing; tendency or orientation, especially of the mind	3
14812367949	Context	Words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning.	4
14952958281	Allusion	A reference to another work of literature, person, or event. Ex: the author used a llusion to compare his work	5
14952958282	Diction	word choice. Ex: the professors diction was hard to understand	6
14952958283	archaic	ancient; old-fashioned. Ex: The old ladies house was archaic	7
14952958284	Antithesis	Direct opposite. Ex: He did the antithesis as his friend	8
14952958285	Bias	A particular preference or point of view that is personal, rather than scientific. Ex: she was bias to her opinion	9
15038347484	Ethos		10
15174591970	Propaganda	Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause.	11
15174591971	hardship	severe suffering or deprivation	12
15174591972	Connotation	an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.	13
15174591973	Polemic	controversy; argument; verbal attack	14
15174591974	Denotation	The dictionary definition of a word	15
15725425577	Analogy	A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way	16
15725425578	Cliche	trite, stereotyped expression; a sentence or phrase, usually expressing a popular or common thought or idea, that has lost originality, ingenuity, and impact by long overuse,	17
15725425579	Colloquialism	characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal.	18
15725425580	Elegiac	used in, suitable for, or resembling an elegy	19
15725425581	Jargon	language, especially the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group	20