AP Notes 1-20

Question 1

a short narrative of an incident, often for a humorous effect

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Anecdote

Question 2

writing that attempts to prove the validity of a point of view by presenting reasoned arguments

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Argumentation

Question 3

an extended narrative of an incident in prose or verse in where characters, events, and, and settings

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Allegory

Question 4

Explanatory notes added to a text to explain, cite sources, or give bibliographic date.

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Annotation

Question 5

the presentation of two contrasting images. The ideas are balanced by word, phrase, clause, or paragraphs.

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Antithesis

Question 6

the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.

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Rhetoric

Question 7

a word or phrase used in everyday conversation and informal writing but that often inappropriate in formal writing.

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Colloquialism

Question 8

words suggesting implied meaning because of its association in a reader’s mind.

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Connotation

Question 9

repetition of identical sounds within two or more words in close proximity.

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Consonance

Question 10

descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature of a person’s appearance of a facet of personality.

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Caricature

Question 11

The quality of a piece of writing in which all the parts contribute to the development of the central idea/theme or organizing principle.

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Coherence

Question 12

A short, often witty, statement of a principle or truth about life. “The early bird gets the worm.”

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Aphorism

Question 13

The device of calling out to an imaginary, dead or absent person or to a place, thing, or personified action.

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Apostrophe

Question 14

Hard, awkward, or dissonant sounds use deliberately in poetry or prose;

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Cacophony

Question 15

A rhetorical device used for listing the details or a process of mentioning words or phrases step by step. In fact, it is a type of amplification or division on which a subject is further distributed into components or parts.

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Enumeration

Question 16

A comparison on which and idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it. It aims at explaining that idea or thing by comparing it to something that is familiar.

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Analogy

Question 17

The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter.

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Parallelism

Question 18

A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. It does not describe in detail the person or thing to which it refers. It is just a passing comment and the writer expects.

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Allusion

Question 19

it is a figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which is closely associated.

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Metonymy

Question 20

Feeling given off by a word

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Connotation

Question 21

The deliberate reputation of the 1st part of the sentence in order to achieve an an artistic effect

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Anaphora

Question 22

The same word returning at the end of each sentence. The repetition of phrases or words at the end of the clauses or sentences.

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Epistrophe

Question 23

To intentionally eliminate conjunctions between the phrases and the sentence, yet maintain grammatical accuracy. This helps in reducing the indirect meaning of the phrase and presents it in a concise form.

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Asyndeton

Question 24

It makes use of coordinating conjunctions like and or but nor which are used to join successive words, phrases or clauses in such a way that these conjunctions are even used where they might have been omitted.

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Polysyndeton

Question 25

A literary device in which part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part.

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Synecdoche

Question 26

An attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience. It is something important for the reader to sense to determine an argument.

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Tone

Question 27

A step-by-step breakdown of the phases of a process, used to convey the details of each phrase of thinking, a operation, etc. It is often used to improve understanding and also breakdown an argument.

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Process analysis

Question 28

A set of rules in a language. It dictates how words from different parts of speech are put together in order to convey a complete thought. How we choose to arrange our words.

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Syntax

Question 29

The purposeful choice of words serving or tending to provoke, exile, or stimulate a provocation question that will frame a rhetorical argument.

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Provocative Diction

Question 30

The action or process of classifying something according to shared qualities or characteristics. This is often a strategy of argumentation or an argumentative response in an effort to provide the reader with structure to your argument.

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Classification

Question 31

the glue that holds an argument together. It links the evidence to the claim.

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Warrant

Question 32

an erroneous argument dependent upon an unsound or illogical contention. These can be found in everyday conversations.

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Fallacy

Question 33

a pattern of reasoning, thinking rendered by a flow in its logical structure that can neatly be expressed in a standard logic system.

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Logical Fallacy

Question 34

Has all the same elements of prediction except the element of time and also has a more religious connotation.

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Prophecy

Question 35

someone who is concerned with precision, formalism, accuracy minute details in order to make an arrogant show of learning. Often corrects small mistakes that are not very important.

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Pedantic

Question 36

lacking proper respect or seriousness

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Flippant

Question 37

the use of language that suggests meanings other than the denotative. Language that connects with emotions or feelings not associated with the word

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Evocative

Question 38

is a grammatical construction in which two elements, normally noun phrases, are placed side by side, with one element serving to identify the other in a different way.

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Apposition