ap lang vocab 5

Question 1

Onomatopoeia

Answer 1

way that writers create sound in their work using words that sound like the noise they make

Question 2

Oxymoron

Answer 2

a rhetorical term that describes words or phrases that, when placed together, create paradoxes or contradictions

Question 3

Parable

Answer 3

a figure of speech, which presents a short story, typically with a moral lesson at the end.

Question 4

Paradox

Answer 4

a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth

Question 5

Parallelism

Answer 5

a grammatical technique involving the use of the same or similar grammatical structures and clauses within sentence structures.

Question 6

Parody

Answer 6

an imitation of the style and manner of a particular writer or school of writers

Question 7

Pedantic

Answer 7

a person who is overly concerned with minor details and rules in the presentation or use of knowledge.

Question 8

Personification

Answer 8

represents abstractions or inanimate objects with human qualities,

Question 9

Point of View

Answer 9

what the character or narrator telling the story can see (his or her perspective)

Question 10

First Person Narrator

Answer 10

The telling of a story in the grammatical first person, i.e. from the perspective of an “I,”

Question 11

Stream of Consciousness

Answer 11

a narrative style that tries to capture a character’s thought process in a realistic way

Question 12

Omniscient

Answer 12

all-seeing and all-knowing.

Question 13

Limited Omniscient

Answer 13

readers are limited to experiencing only one or some characters’ thoughts

Question 14

Rhetoric

Answer 14

the art of persuasion through communication

Question 15

Petrarchan Conceit

Answer 15

hyperbolic comparison most often made by a suffering lover of his beautiful mistress to some physical object

Question 16

Polysyndeton

Answer 16

a list or series of words, phrases, or clauses that is connected with the repeated use of the same conjunction

Question 17

Protagonist

Answer 17

the character who drives the action–the character whose fate matters most

Question 18

Reductio ad absurdum

Answer 18

reducing to an absurdity.” It involves characterizing an opposing argument in such a way that it seems to be ridiculous, or the consequences of the position seem ridiculous.