AP Exam Vocab Flashcards

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Alliteration

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(If you don’t know this, you’re a dumb fuck) The repetition of sounds, especially initial consonant sounds, in two or more neighboring words.

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Antithesis

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A figure of speech involving a seeming contradiction of ideas, words, clauses, or sentences within a balanced grammatical structure. (Ex. “Too black for heaven, to white for hell”).

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Apostrophe

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A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction. (Ex. “Death be not proud”).

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Colloquialism

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Slang or informality in speech or writing.

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Diction

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The writers word choices

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Figurative Language

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Writing or speech that is not intended to carry a literal meaning and is usually meant to be imaginative and vivid.

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Figure of speech

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A device used to produce figurative language.

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Narrative

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The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events

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Parallelism

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The grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity.

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Pathos

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A writer or speaker’s attempt to inspire an emotional reaction in an audience.

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Rhetoric

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The principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively

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Rhetorical Appeal

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logos, ethos, and pathos

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Rhetorical Modes

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The variety, conventions, and purposes of the major kinds of writing

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Exposition

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Explain and analyze information

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Argumentation

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Prove the validity of an idea or point of view

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Description

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Recreate, invent, or visually present something so that the reader can picture what is being described

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Narration

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Tell a story or narrate an event or series of events

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Syntax

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The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences. The arrangement or order of grammatical elements in a sentence.