AP Notes #1

Question 1

Anecdote

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Argumentation

Answer 2

Writing that attempts to prone the validity of a point of view or an by presenting reasoned arguments

Question 3

Allegory

Answer 3

Extended narrative of an incident in prose or verse in which characters, events and setting represent abstract qualities

Question 4

Annotation

Answer 4

Exploratory notes added to a text to explain, cite sources, or give bibliographic to AP Lang

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Antithesis

Answer 5

Presentation of two contrasting images

Question 6

Rhetoric

Answer 6

Art of effective or,persuasive speaking,or writing

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Colloquialism

Answer 7

Word or phrase used in everyday conversation and informal writing

Question 8

Consonance

Answer 8

Repetition of identical constant sounds within two or more words in close proximity

Question 9

Caricature

Answer 9

Descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature of a person’s appearance or a facet of personality

Question 10

Coherence

Answer 10

Quality of a piece of writing in which all the parts contribute to the development of the central idea/theme or organizing principle

Question 11

Aphorism

Answer 11

Short, often witty, statement of a principle or truth about life

Question 12

Apostrophe

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Device of calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person or to a place, thing or personified obstructions

Question 13

Cacophony.

Answer 13

Hard, awkward or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose

Question 14

Enumeration

Answer 14

Rhetorical device used for listing the details or a process of mentioning words or phrases step by step

Question 15

Synecdoche

Answer 15

Part represents whole

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Process analysis

Answer 16

Step by step breakdown of phases of a process used to convey the details of each phase of thinking

Question 17

Tone

Answer 17

Generally conveyed through choice of words

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Syntax

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Dictates how words of different speech are put together to convey thought

Question 19

Provocative Diction

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Purposeful choice of words serving or tending to provide, excite, or stimulate a provocative question

Question 20

Classification

Answer 20

Action or process of classifying something according to shared qualities or characteristics

Question 21

Understatement

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Opposite of hyperbole or overstatement

Question 22

Colorful Diction

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Very purposeful word choice serves to accentuate meaning and tone

Question 23

Counterargument

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Argument or set of reasons put toward to oppose an idea

Question 24

Claim

Answer 24

Someone giving an argument to support their position

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Evidence

Answer 25

Type of literary device that appears in different categories of essays

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Warrant

Answer 26

Glue that holds an argument together

Question 27

Fallacy

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Emoneous Argument dependent upon an unsound or illogical connection

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Logical Fallacy

Answer 28

Pattern of reasoning rendered invalid by a flaw in its logical structure that can neatly be expressed in a standard logic system

Question 29

Prophecy

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All elements of a prediction minus time

Question 30

Prediction

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Forecast made by those who calculate the parameters of the subject involved after evaluating the odds they can predict the future

Question 31

Analogy

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Comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it

Question 32

Parallelism

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Use of components in a sentence that ate grammatically the same or similar in structure sound meaning or meter

Question 33

Allusion

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Brief and indirect reference to a person place thing or idea of historically culture literary or political significance

Question 34

Metonymy

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Figure of speech replaces name of thing with name of something else with which it us closely related

Question 35

Anaphora

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Deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence to achieve an artistic effect known as anaphora

Question 36

Epistrophe

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Indicates sane word returns at end of each sentence explicit device that can be defined as the repetition of phrases or words at the end of clauses or sentences

Question 37

Asyndeton

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Stylistic device used in lit and poetry to intentionally eliminate conjunction between the phrases and in the sentence, maintain the grammatical accuracy

Question 38

Polysyndeton

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Coordinates conjunctions like and or but and nor

Question 39

Connotation

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Word suggesting implied meaning because of its association in a reader's mind. Opposite of denotation

Question 40

Connotation

Answer 40

Word suggesting implied meaning because of its association in a reader's mind. Opposite of denotation,