AP English 76- 105 Flashcards
Parody
A humorous imitation of a serious work.
an imitation of a particular writer, artist, or genre, exaggerating it deliberately to produce a (comic effect)
Aka – Spoof
Pride and Prejudice with Zombies
Scary Movie
Pedantic
characterized by an excessive display of learning or scholarship; too concerned with correct rules and the formality of book learning and its minor points pedantic has come to characterize anyone who is overly concerned with minor details and tries to seem scholarly or intelligent by going on and on about trivial details that don’t really add much to the discussion or teaching.
Personification
Endowing non-human objects or creatures with human qualities or characteristics
Philippic
a strong verbal denunciation
History: The term comes from the
orations of Demosthenes against Philip of Macedonia in the fourth century.
Example: Bobby Knight was briefly suspended after launching into a foul-mouthed Philippic during a press conference.
Pun
a play on words often achieved through the use of words with
similar sounds but different meanings
Examples:
1) kings worry about a receding hair line.
2) “Look deep into our ryes.”
(slogan of Wigler’s Bakery)
3) Carl I recently spent money on detergent to unclog my kitchen sink. It was money down the drain.
Satire
the use of humor to emphasize human weaknesses or
imperfections in social instructions
A text or performance that uses irony, derision, or wit to expose or attack human vice, foolishness, or stupidity - Contemporary vehicles for satire include The Colbert Report, South
Park, and The Onion.
Scapegoat
a person or group that bears the blame for another
Simile
a comparison of two things using “like” or “as”
Solecism
nonstandard grammatical usage; a violation of grammatical
rules
“I quit school when I was sixteen.”
(public service ad)
Polystyrene
the use, for rhetorical effect, of more conjunctions than
is necessary or natural
“He pulled the blue plastic tarp off of him and folded it and carried it out to the grocery cart and packed it and came back with their plates and some cornmeal cakes in a plastic bag and
a plastic bottle of syrup.”
(Cormac McCarthy, The Road. Knopf, 2006)
“Let the whitefolks have their money and power and segregation and sarcasm and big houses and schools and lawns like carpets, and books, and mostly–mostly–let them have their whiteness.”
(Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969)
(Opposite of????? Both – ways of handling a series…)
Surrealism
an artistic movement emphasizing the imagination and
characterized by incongruous juxtaposition and lack of conscious
control
Syllepsis
a construction in which one word is used in two different
senses
After he threw the ball, he threw a fit.
Syllogism
a three-part deductive argument in which a conclusion is
based on a major premise and a minor premise
All men are mortal; Socrates is a man; therefore, Socrates is mortal.
Major premise: All books from that store are new.
Minor premise: These books are from that store.
Conclusion: Therefore, these books are new.
Synecdoche
using one part of an object to represent the entire (whole) object
Referring to a car as “wheels”
Give us this day our daily bread
The phrase “hired hands” can be used to refer to workmen.
OR the whole is used to represent a part
If “the world” is not treating you well, that would not be the entire world but just a part of it
that you’ve encountered.
The word “police” can be used to represent only one or a few police officers.
Synesthesia (or synaesthesia)
describing one kind of sensation in terms of another
A loud color
A sweet sound
“Back to the region where the sun is silent.” Dante’s Inferno
