AP Language and Composition: Rhetorical Terms Flashcards

10058741886	Adage	An old familiar saying	0
10059159310	Allegory	the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence	1
10059177367	Alliteration	The repetition of a sound at the beginning of two or more neighboring words	2
10183669722	Allusion	A reference made to something not directly mentioned	3
10183672832	Analogy	A resemblance in some details between things otherwise unlike	4
10183674121	Anaphora	A repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of phrases, clauses, sentences or verses	5
10183677055	Anecdote	A brief story about something interesting or funny in a person's life	6
10183678932	Antithesis	An exact opposite, contrary	7
10183681695	Aphorism	A short statement of a general truth or idea	8
10183683228	Apostrophe	The addressing of an absent person as if present or of an object or abstract idea as if cable of understanding	9
10517625414	Asyndeton	omission of the conjunctions that ordinarily join coordinate words or clauses	10
10517626136	Atmosphere	the main mood or feeling in a creative work	11
10517628768	Chiasmus	an inverted relationship between the syntactic elements of parallel phrases	12
10517633031	Colloquialism	a colloquial expression	13
10517633463	Conceit	too much pride in one's own worth or virtue	14
10517633988	Connotation	a meaning suggested by a word or an expression in addition to its exact meaning	15
10517634321	Denotation	a direct specific meaning as distinct from an implied or associated idea	16
10517634691	Diacope	When a writer repeats a word or phrase with one or more words between.	17
10517635433	Diction	choice of words especially with regard to correctness, clearness, or effectiveness, wording	18
10517636956	Didactic	intended primarily to teach rather than to entertain	19
10517639514	Ellipsis	The leaving out of one or more words that are not necessary for the phrase to be understood.	20
10517640047	Enumeratio	A rhetorical word for the listing of details, a subject is divided into different parts or details	21
10517642276	Ethos	the distinguishing character, sentiment, moral nature, or guiding beliefs of a person, group, or institution	22
10517644816	Expletive	an exclamatory word or phrase	23
10517647439	Euphemism	the substitution of a mild or pleasant expression for one that is too strong or unpleasant	24
10517650888	Exposition	a piece of writing that explains	25
10517656076	Extended Metaphor	When an author uses a throughout a long passage or poem	26
10517656709	Homily	a lecture or discourse on or of a moral theme	27
10517660175	Hyperbole	extravagant exaggeration used to emphasize a point	28
10517662415	Hypophora	A rhetorical device where the speaker/writer states a question and immediately answers it.	29
10517664765	Idiom	the choice of words and the way they are combined that is characteristic of a language	30
10517665541	Imagery	language that suggests how someone or something looks, sounds, feels, smells, or tastes	31
10517666015	Inference	the act or process of inferring	32
10517666491	Invective	harsh or insulting words	33
10517668395	Irony	the use of words that mean the opposite of what one really intends	34
10517671213	Jargon	the special language of a particular activity or group	35
10517672470	Juxtaposition	the act or an instance of placing two or more things side by side often to compare or contrast or to create an interesting effect	36
10517672963	Litotes	understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary	37
10517674558	Logos	An emotional appeal, to persuade the audience by appealing to their emotions.	38
10517677919	Metaphor	a figure of speech in which a word or phrase meaning one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a similarity between them	39
10517678492	Metonymy	a figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated	40
10517679045	Mood	distinction of form or a particular set of inflectional forms of a verb to express whether the action or state it denotes is conceived as fact or in some other manner	41
10517680808	Narrative	a way of presenting or understanding a situation or series of events that reflects and promotes a particular point of view or set of values, or, the representation in art of an event or story	42
10517682003	Onomatopoeia	the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it	43
10517682664	Oxymoron	a combination of contradictory words	44
10517683163	Paradox	a statement that seems to go against common sense but may still be true	45
10517683767	Parallelism	The quality or state of being parallel, similarity of construction of word groups especially for effect or rhythm	46
10517685017	Parody	a written or musical work in which the style of an author or work is imitated for comic effect	47
10517685357	Pathos	an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion	48
10517686076	Personification	the representation of a thing or idea as a person or by the human form	49
10517686836	Polysyndeton	repetition of conjunctions in close succession	50
10517687380	Pun	the humorous use of a word in such a way as to suggest different meanings or of words having the same sound but different meanings	51
10517687771	Rhetorical Modes	the variety, conventions, and purposes of the major kinds of language-based communication, particularly writing and speaking.	52
10517692161	Rhetorical Questions	A question that doesn't need to be answered	53
10517694920	Sarcasm	a remark made usually to hurt someone's feelings or show scorn	54
10517695336	Satire	something meant to make fun of and show the weaknesses of human nature or a particular person	55
10517696788	Simile	a figure of speech in which things different in kind or quality are compared by the use of the word	56
10517697256	Syllogism	a brief form for stating an argument that consists of two statements and a conclusion that must be true if these two statements are true	57
10517698023	Symbol	something that stands for something else OR something real that stands for or suggests another thing that cannot in itself be pictured or shown	58
10517698910	Synecdoche	A figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole, the whole for a part, the species for the genus, the genus for the species, or the name of the material for the thing made.	59
10517700701	Synesthesia	A subjunctive sensation or image of a sense other than the one being stimulated	60
10517701786	Tone	A style or manner of expression	61
10517702769	Understatement	To represent as less than is the case OR to state mildly especially on purpose.	62
10517703370	Undertone	A low or quiet tone	63
10517704255	Vernacular	ordinary spoken language rather than literary language	64
10517704745	Zeugma	the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words usually in such a manner that it applies to each in a different sense or makes sense with only one	65
10517705165	Appositive	of, relating to, or standing in apposition	66
10517705769	Independent Clause	a clause that could be used by itself as a simple sentence but that is part of a larger sentence	67
10517706397	Dependent Clause	a clause that does not form a simple sentence by itself and that is connected to the main clause of a sentence	68
10517706765	Balanced Sentence	A sentence made up of 2 parts that are relatively equal in length, importance, and grammatical structure	69
10517709014	Compound Sentence	A sentence with more than one subject or predicate	70
10517710173	Complex Sentence	a sentence containing a subordinate clause or clauses.	71
10517711087	Simple Sentence	a sentence consisting of only one clause, with a single subject and predicate.	72
10517712423	Compound-Complex Sentence	a sentence having two or more coordinate independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.	73
10517714646	Cumulative Sentence	an independent clause followed by a series of subordinate constructions that gather details about a person, place, event, or idea.	74
10517715606	Periodic Sentence	Has the main clause or predicate at the end	75
10517717312	Declarative Sentence	States a fact, describes things that make a definite statement	76
10517720331	Interrogative Sentence	is a type of sentence that asks a question	77
10517721502	Imperative Sentence	is a type of sentence that gives instructions or advice, and expresses a command, an order, a direction, or a request.	78