AP Lang Vocab Set 1. 1-25 Flashcards
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Short, simple narrative of an incident often used for humorous effect or to make a point.
Anecdote
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.
Argumentation
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.
Allegory
Explanatory notes added to a text to explain, cite sources, or give bibliography data.
Annotation
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.”
Antithesis
The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing especially the use of figures of speech and other composition techniques.
Rhetoric
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)
Colloquialism
Words suggesting implied meaning because of its association in the reader’s mind
Connotation
Repetition of identical consonant within two or more words in close proximity: Boot/Beat/Best/Brag or even compound words, fulfill or ping-pong
Consonance
descriptive writing that greatly exaggerated a specific feature of a person’s appearance or a facet of their personality
caricature
the “quality” of a piece of writing in which all the parts contribute to the development of the central idea/theme or organizing principle.
coherence
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.”
Aphorism
Usually in poetry but sometimes in prose: the device of calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, place, thing, or personified abstraction
Apostrophe
Also referred to as “Dissonance” hard, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose, the opposite of “Euphony”
Cacophony
- How a word makes you feel or the impression that it gives you
- The actual book definition of a word
- Connotation
- Denotation
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
Enumeration
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.
Analogy
Use of components in a sentence that are grammatically, the same; or in their constructure, sound, meaning, or meter
- like father, like son
Parallelism
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.
Allusion
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.
Metonymy
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
Anaphora
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.
Epistrophe
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
Ayndenton
Attitude the writer has towards subject or audience.
Tone
