AP Language vocab

Question 1

Anecdote

Answer 1

a short simple narrative of an incident

Question 2

Argumentation

Answer 2

writing that presents reasoned arguments to prove points

Question 3

Allegory

Answer 3

narrative of an incident in phrase or verse in which characters events and settings re[resent abstract qualities

Question 4

Annotation

Answer 4

explanatory notes added to a test to explain the sources

Question 5

Antithesis

Answer 5

presentation of two contrasting images

Question 6

Rhetoric

Answer 6

the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing

Question 7

Colloquialism

Answer 7

word or phrase used in everyday conversation

Question 8

connotation

Answer 8

words suggesting implied meaning

Question 9

consonance

Answer 9

repetition of identical consonant sounds within two or more words

Question 10

caricature

Answer 10

descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature

Question 11

coherence

Answer 11

the quality of a piece of writing in which all the parts contribute to the central idea

Question 12

aphorism

Answer 12

short statement of a principle

Question 13

apostrophe

Answer 13

usually in poems

Question 14

cacophony

Answer 14

hard awkward or dissonance sounds

Question 15

enumeration

Answer 15

a rhetorical device used for listing details of process of which a subject is further distributed into parts