AP Language Analysis Terms Flashcards
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| 10547773294 | Authority | A poem's commanding presence or its ability to accurately relay itself to the reader. | 0 | |
| 10547765843 | Audience | The person for whom a writer writes; the writer uses a particular style of language, tone, and content according to what they know about the audience. | 1 | |
| 10547780177 | Backing | It is the support or explanation provided for analyzing arguments. | 2 | |
| 10547782887 | Assertion | A confident and forceful statement of fact or belief; a statement that is debatable. | 3 | |
| 10547790680 | Means VS. Ends | How you end up achieving or getting the goal. | 4 | |
| 10547793507 | Deductive Reasoning | Process of reasoning from one or more statements to reach a logically certain conclusion. | 5 | |
| 10547829409 | Inductive Reasoning | A method in reasoning in which the premises are viewed as supplying some evidence for the truth of the conclusion. | 6 | |
| 10547834686 | Alliteration | The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. | 7 | |
| 10547842275 | Tone | The emotional attitude expressed toward the readers, the mood or moreal view. | 8 | |
| 10547849052 | Diction | The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing. | 9 | |
| 10547854204 | Denotation | 10 | ||
| 10547854205 | Connotation | 11 | ||
| 10547857779 | Colloquial | 12 | ||
| 10547857780 | Formal | 13 | ||
| 10547857781 | Informal | 14 | ||
| 10547858904 | Concrete | 15 | ||
| 10547858905 | Abstract | 16 | ||
| 10547858906 | Details | 17 | ||
| 10547859595 | Mood | 18 | ||
| 10547859596 | Imagery | 19 | ||
| 10547859597 | Setting | 20 | ||
| 10547861109 | Figurative Language | 21 | ||
| 10547862178 | Allusion | 22 | ||
| 10547862179 | Simile | 23 | ||
| 10547862180 | Metaphor | 24 | ||
| 10547864937 | Process Analysis | 25 | ||
| 10547864938 | Narration | 26 | ||
| 10547865716 | Comparison/Contrast | 27 | ||
| 10547865717 | Exposition | 28 | ||
| 10547865718 | Argumentation | 29 | ||
| 10547867576 | Repetition | 30 | ||
| 10547868796 | Point of View | 31 | ||
| 10547868797 | First Person | 32 | ||
| 10547870166 | Second Person | 33 | ||
| 10547870167 | Third Person | 34 | ||
| 10547872207 | Personification | 35 | ||
| 10547872208 | Hyberbole | 36 | ||
| 10547872209 | Understatement | 37 | ||
| 10547873578 | Paradox | 38 | ||
| 10547873579 | Verbal Irony | 39 | ||
| 10547873882 | Analogy | 40 | ||
| 10547875100 | Anecdote | 41 | ||
| 10547875101 | Metonymy | 42 | ||
| 10547876942 | Synecdoche | 43 | ||
| 10547879501 | Rhetorical Modes/Modes of Discourse | 44 | ||
| 10547883667 | Exemplification | 45 | ||
| 10547883668 | Cause/Effect | 46 | ||
| 10547886101 | Description | 47 | ||
| 10547886102 | Subjective | 48 | ||
| 10547887048 | Objective | 49 | ||
| 10547887049 | Syntax | 50 | ||
| 10547888825 | Anaphora | 51 | ||
| 10547888826 | Antithesis | 52 | ||
| 10547888827 | Asyndeton | A literary technique in which conjunctions are omitted in a series or words, phrases or clauses. It is used to shorten sentences and focus on its meaning. | 53 | |
| 10547890861 | Polysyndeton | 54 | ||
| 10547892026 | Parallel Sentence | Using the same pattern of words to show that two or more words or ideas are of equal importance. Words and phrases should not only match, but also in tenses. | 55 | |
| 10547892027 | Periodic Sentence | A sentence that has the main clause or the predicate at the end to create suspense. Also, it is used for emphasis and can be persuasive by putting reasons for something at the beginning. | 56 | |
| 10547894912 | Rhetorical Question | A question that you ask without expecting an answer. It might be one that does not have an answer or an obvious answer but is asked to make a pint, to persuade, or for literary effort. | 57 | |
| 10547895004 | Inverted Syntax | Literary technique in which the normal oder of words is reversed, in order to achieve a particular effect of emphasis. | 58 |