AP Lang Rhetoric Flashcards

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a reference to artistic elements or expressions within a textual work

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aesthetic

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allegory

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the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence

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3
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alliteration

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the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of successive words

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4
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allusion

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a reference, explicit or implicit, to something in previous literature or history

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5
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analogy

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an extended comparison between two things/ instances/ people/ etc. that share some similarity to make a point

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anaphora

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the repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses, sentences, or lines

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anecdote

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a (typically short) narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident

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assonance

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the repetition of vowel sounds (but not consonant sounds)

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9
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colloquial

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a characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech

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10
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connotation

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the set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning

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consonance

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the repetition of consonant sounds (but not vowels)

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12
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deductive reasoning

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a type of reasoning that works from the more general to the more specific, beginning with a theory that becomes a hypothesis, and using observations to confirm the original theory (top-down approach)

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13
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denotation

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the literal meaning of a word; the dictionary definition

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14
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diction

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a writer’s choice of sentence structures to help create meaning

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15
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didactic

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an instructional tone designed to teach an ethical, moral, or religious lesson

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16
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elegiac

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a tone involving mourning or expressing sorrow for that which is irrecoverably past

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epistrophe

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ending a series of lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences with the same word or words

18
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enjambment

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the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line or stanza

19
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ethos

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appealing to credibility

20
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euphemism

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the substitution of an inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant

21
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extended metaphor

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several thematically-related figures of speech that suggest non-literal similarities without using “like” or “as”

22
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foreshadowing

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providing vague advance indications