AP Language Terms Flashcards

8578303096	Rhetorical Question	a question asked solely to produce an effect and not to elicit a reply	0
8578310566	Refutation	when a writer delivers relevant opposing arguments	1
8578332792	Allegory	a narrative in which character, action, and setting symbolize abstract concepts apart from the literal meaning of a story; underlying meaning usually has a moral, social, religious, or political significance	2
8578819545	Metonymy	the substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself ("the crown" = kingship)	3
8579194770	Qualifier	a statement that indicates the force of the argument	4
8579207587	Declarative Sentence	makes a statement	5
8579212861	Interrogative Sentence	asks a question	6
8579214319	Imperative Sentence	gives a command	7
8579216622	Exclamatory Sentence	makes an interjection	8
8579216623	Thesis	the central claim and overall purpose of a work	9
8579230276	Bias	a predisposition or subjective opinion	10
8579232229	Anecdote	a short account of an interesting or humorous incident; intended to illustrate or support a point	11
8579265075	Analogy	a comparison to a directly parallel case; the process of drawing a comparison between two things based on a partial similarity of like features	12
8579294309	Idiom	an expression that means something other than the literal meanings of its individual words	13
8579307401	Tone	the voice and attitude the writer has chosen to project	14
8579314829	Mood	the overall atmosphere of a work and how it makes a reader feel	15
8579393415	Antithesis	a contrast in language to bring out a contrast in ideas	16
8579422254	Allusion	a brief reference to a person, event, or place - real or fictitious - or to a work of art	17
8579474035	Juxtaposition	placing two ideas side by side or close together	18
8579502019	Anticipating Audience Response	technique of anticipating counterarguments and offering a refutation	19
8579535353	Euphemism	substitutions of an inoffensive, indirect, or agreeable expression for a word or phrase perceived as socially unacceptable or harsh	20
8579610087	Paradox	a phrase or statement that while seeming contradictory or absurd my actually be well founded or true; used to attract attention or to secure emphasis	21
8582748888	Cliché	an expression that through overuse has lost its power to evoke concrete images	22
8584720533	Irony	the discrepancy between appearance and reality: verbal, situational, dramatic, and Socratic (a tiny dog named Giant)	23
8584727415	Oxymoron	a self-contradictory combination of words (awfully good)	24
8584750201	Logos	appealing to logical reasoning and sound evidence	25
8584756874	Ethos	appealing to the audience's shared values	26
8584768225	Pathos	evoking and manipulating emotions	27
8584770845	Aphorism	a concise or tersely phrased statement in principle, truth, or opinion; found in fields like law, politics, and art	28
8584803425	Deductive Reasoning	method of reasoning that moves from a general premise to a specific conclusion	29
8584807317	Inductive Reasoning	method of reasoning that moves from a specific evidence to a general conclusion based on this evidence	30
8584817334	Diction	choice of words in a work and an important element of style	31
8584821187	Abstract Language	language describing ideas and qualities	32
8584831524	Concrete Language	language describing observable, specific things	33
8584837826	Colloquialism	words characteristic to familiar conversation, jargon	34
8584845784	Denotation	specific, exact meaning of a word as defined	35
8584851709	Connotation	the emotional implication that a word may cary	36
8584854098	Polysyndeton	repetition of conjuctions in close succession	37
8584864190	Synecdoche	part is used for a whole or the whole for a part ("wheels" refers to entire car)	38
8584868814	Satire	genre of writing used to critique or ridicule through humor or sarcasm	39
8584954159	Syntax	how a sentence is constructed	40
8584956680	Simple Sentence	a complete sentence that is netiher compound, nor complex; 1 subject, 1 predicate	41
8584961299	Compound Sentence	a sentence that contains 2 independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjuction	42
8584967343	Complex Sentence	an independent clause joined by one or more dependent clauses	43
8584978871	Antecedent	the word to which a pronoun referes	44
8584982405	Parallelism	when the arrangement of parts of a sentence is similarly phrased or constructed	45
8584994158	Loose Sentence	when a sentence is grammatically complete before its end (main point is in 1st sentence)	46
8584997407	Periodic Sentence	when a sentence is not grammatically complete before its end (main point is in last sentence)	47
8585000912	Anaphora	the same expression is repeated at the beginning of 2 or more consecutive lines (every day, every night, every way)	48
8585005829	Chiasmus	second half of an expression is balanced against the first, but with the parts reversed (criss-cross words: fool kiss you or a kiss fool you)	49