Vocab 1-20

Question 1

Anecdote

Answer 1

A 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 prove the validity of a point of view or an idea by presenting “reasoned” arguments; persuasive writing is a form of argumentation and if the focus of the AP Lang and composition program.

Question 3

Allegory

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Annotation

Answer 4

Explanatory noted added to a text to explain, cite sources, or give a bibliography data. In AP Lang you will need to demonstrate DETAILED annotations on most of your readings.

Question 5

Antithesis

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Rhetoric

Answer 6

The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques. This is the core of the AP Lang Program.

Question 7

Colloquialism

Answer 7

A word or phrase (including slang) used in everyday conversation and informal writing but that is often inappropriate in formal writing. (y’all, ain’t, can’t, somethin’)

Question 8

Connotation

Answer 8

Words suggesting implied meaning because of it’s association in a readers mind. This is the opposite of “denotation.

Question 9

Consonance

Answer 9

repetition of identical consonant sounds within two or more words in close proximity.

Question 10

Caricature

Answer 10

descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature of a persons appearance or a facet of personality

Question 11

Coherence

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Aphorism

Answer 12

a short, often witty, statement of principal or truth about life.

Question 13

Apostraphe

Answer 13

usually in poetry, but sometimes in prose, the device of calling out to an imagery, or absent person, or a place, thing, or personified abstraction.

Question 14

Cacophony

Answer 14

also referred to as dissonance… hard awkward, or dissonant sounds used to deliberately in poetry or phrase

Question 15

Connotation/Denotation

Answer 15

the tone of a passage

Question 16

Enumeration

Answer 16

A rhetorical device used for listing the details or a process of mentioning words or phrases step by step, it is in fact a type of amplification or division in which a subject is furthered distributed into components or parts.

Question 17

Analogy

Answer 17

A comparison in which a idea or thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it. It aims at explaining that idea or thing by comparing it to something that is familiar.

Question 18

Parallelism

Answer 18

Is the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction sound, meaning, or meter.

Question 19

Allusion

Answer 19

Is a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, or 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 and the writer expects the reader to possess enough knowledge to spot the sllusion