AP Lang Vocab Set 1. 1-25

Question 1

Short, simple narrative of an incident often used for humorous effect or to make a point.

Answer 1

Anecdote

Question 2

Writing that attempts to prove the validly of a point or view or an idea by presenting “reasoned” arguments. Persuasive writing is a form of it.

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Argumentation

Question 3

An extended narrative of an incident in a prose or verse in which characters, events, and settings represent abstract qualities and in which the writer intends a second meaning to be read beneath the surface of the story. Underlying meaning maybe moral, religious, political, social, or satiric.

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Allegory

Question 4

Explanatory notes added to a text to explain, cite sources, or give bibliography data.

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Annotation

Question 5

The presentation or two contrasting things, The ideas are balanced by word, phrase, clause, or paragraph. “To be or not to be”, “ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.”

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Antithesis

Question 6

The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing especially the use of figures of speech and other composition techniques.

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Rhetoric

Question 7

Word r phrase (includes slang) used in everyday conversation and in informal writing, but that is often inappropriate to use in formal writing. (y’all, ain’t)

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Colloquialism

Question 8

Words suggesting implied meaning because of its association in the reader’s mind

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Connotation

Question 9

Repetition of identical consonant within two or more words in close proximity: Boot/Beat/Best/Brag or even compound words, fulfill or ping-pong

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Consonance

Question 10

descriptive writing that greatly exaggerated a specific feature of a person’s appearance or a facet of their personality

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caricature

Question 11

the “quality” of a piece of writing in which all the parts contribute to the development of the central idea/theme or organizing principle.

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coherence

Question 12

a short, often witty, statement of a principle or truth about life. Benjamin Franklin was some what famous for these in “Poor Richard’s Almanac” e.g “the early bird gets the worm.”

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Aphorism

Question 13

Usually in poetry but sometimes in prose: the device of calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, place, thing, or personified abstraction

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Apostrophe

Question 14

Also referred to as “Dissonance” hard, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose, the opposite of “Euphony”

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Cacophony

Question 15

• How a word makes you feel or the impression that it gives you
• The actual book definition of a word

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• Connotation

- Denotation

Question 16

Rhetorical device used for listing the details or process of mentioning words or phrases step by step. In fact, it is a type of amplification or division in which a subject is further distributed with components or parts

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Enumeration

Question 17

Comparison in which an idea or thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it. It aims at explaining the idea or thing by comparing it to something that is familiar.

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Analogy

Question 18

Use of components in a sentence that are grammatically, the same; or in their constructure, sound, meaning, or meter
- like father, like son

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Parallelism

Question 19

brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. It does not describe in detail the person or thing to which it refers. It is just a passing comment the writer expects the reader to understand.

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Allusion

Question 20

Figure of speech that replaces the name a thing with something else to which it is closely associated. Do not confuse with a metaphor, metaphor is a direct comparison.

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Metonymy

Question 21

In writing or speech, the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect. Its roots come from the Biblical book “Psalms” used to emphasize certain words or phrases

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Anaphora

Question 22

Comes from Greek word meaning to turn upon, which indicates the same word returns at the end of each sentence. Repetition of words or phrases at the end of a sentence.

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Epistrophe

Question 23

Comes from Greek word meaning unconnected. Used poetry and literature to eliminate conjunctions between the phrases and in the sentence and still maintain its grammatical accuracy. Helps reduce the indirect meaning of the phrases and presents it in concise form. Helps speed up rhythm of words, mostly used in speech

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Ayndenton

Question 24

Attitude the writer has towards subject or audience.

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Tone

Question 25

Set of rules in a language. Dictates how words from a part of speech are put together in order to convey a complete thought. In plain English, it means how we choose to arrange words

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Syntax