AP Vocab 101-120

Question 1

Concession

Answer 1

Used to show that the writer is logical and fair-minded. shows that they realized there are multiple sides to an argument

Question 2

Portmanteau

Answer 2

A literary device in which two or more words are joined together to form a new word. A portmanteau word is formed by blending parts of two or more words but always refers to a single concept.

Question 3

The coinage of Portmanteau

Answer 3

The linking and blending of two or more words to make new words that can have a completely different meaning from the words that form it.
education+enteratainment=edutainment

Question 4

Litotes

Answer 4

Understatement, esp that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in “npt bad at all”

Question 5

Chiasmus

Answer 5

Rhetoric reversal of the order of words in the second of two parallel phrases: he came in triumph and in defeat departs; he went to the country, to the town he went

Question 6

Anadiplosis

Answer 6

A rhetorical term for the repetition of the last word of one line or clause to begin the next. “Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate”

Question 7

Invective

Answer 7

a verbally abusive attack

Question 8

Circumlocution

Answer 8

The use of an unnecessarily large number of words or an indirect means of expression to express an idea so as to effect an evasion in speech

Question 9

Begging the Question

Answer 9

Supporting a claim with a reason that is really a restatement of the claim in different words

Question 10

Adage

Answer 10

A saying or proverb embodying a piece of common wisdom based on experience and often couched in metaphorical language “It is always darkest before dawn.”

Question 11

Verisimilitude

Answer 11

similar to truth; the quality of realism in a work that persuades the reader that he/she is getting a vision of life as it is.

Question 12

Malapropism

Answer 12

A confused, comically inaccurate use of a long word or words. In Romeo and Juliet, the nurse says, “I desire some confidence with you, sir.”

Question 13

Cadence

Answer 13

The rising and falling rhythm of speech especially in free verse or prose

Question 14

False Analogy

Answer 14

Error in assuming that because two things are alike in some ways they are alike in all ways.

Question 15

Hasty Generalization

Answer 15

Unsound inductive inference based on insufficient, inadequate, unspecified evidence.

Question 16

Non sequitur

Answer 16

A statement or idea that fails to follow logically from the one before.

Question 17

Post Hoc

Answer 17

Because one thing that follows another, it is held to cause the other

Question 18

Ad Hominem

Answer 18

Instead of attacking an assertion, the argument attacks the person who made the assertion.

Question 19

Polyphasic

Answer 19

excessive talking

Question 20

Diatribe

Answer 20

A bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack, or criticism. A bitter and abusive speech or writing.