Ap Lang Vocab

Question 1

Imagery

Answer 1

The sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions.

Question 2

Denotation

Answer 2

The strict, literal, dictionary definition of a word, devoid of any emotion attitude, or color.

Question 3

Hypophora

Answer 3

Figure of reasoning in which one or more questions is/are asked and then answered, often at length, by one and the same speaker; raising and responding to one’s own question(s).

Question 4

Diacope

Answer 4

repetition of a word or phrase after an intervening word or phrase:

Question 5

Hyperbole

Answer 5

A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement. Hyperboles often have a comic effect; however, a serious effect is also possible.

Question 6

Diction

Answer 6

Related to style, diction refers to the writer’s word choices, especially with regard to their correctness, clearness, or effectiveness.

Question 7

Homily

Answer 7

This term literally means “sermon,” but more informally, it can include any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice.

Question 8

Didactic

Answer 8

these works have the primary aim of teaching or instructing, especially the teaching of moral or ethical principles.

Question 9

Genre

Answer 9

The major category into which a literary work fits

Question 10

Enumeratio

Answer 10

Figure of amplification in which a subject is divided into constituent parts or details, and may include a listing of causes, effects, problems, solutions, conditions, and consequences; the listing or detailing of the parts of something.

Question 11

Generic conventions

Answer 11

This term describes traditions for each genre.

Question 12

Figure of Speech

Answer 12

this rhetorical device includes apostrophe, hyperbole, irony, metaphor, metonymy, oxymoron, paradox, personification, simile, synecdoche, and understatement.

Question 13

Expletive

Answer 13

Figure of emphasis in which a single word or short phrase, usually interrupting normal speech, is used to lend emphasis to the words on either side of this device

Question 14

Figurative Language

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Euphemism

Answer 15

From the Greek for “good speech,” these devices are a more agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept.

Question 16

Extended Metaphor

Answer 16

A rhetorical strategy developed at great length, occurring frequently in or throughout the work.

Question 17

Exposition

Answer 17

In essays, one of the four chief types of composition, the others being argumentation, description, and narration.