AP Notes 1-20 Flashcards
a short narrative of an incident, often for a humorous effect
Anecdote
writing that attempts to prove the validity of a point of view by presenting reasoned arguments
Argumentation
an extended narrative of an incident in prose or verse in where characters, events, and, and settings
Allegory
Explanatory notes added to a text to explain, cite sources, or give bibliographic date.
Annotation
the presentation of two contrasting images. The ideas are balanced by word, phrase, clause, or paragraphs.
Antithesis
the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.
Rhetoric
a word or phrase used in everyday conversation and informal writing but that often inappropriate in formal writing.
Colloquialism
words suggesting implied meaning because of its association in a reader’s mind.
Connotation
repetition of identical sounds within two or more words in close proximity.
Consonance
descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature of a person’s appearance of a facet of personality.
Caricature
The quality of a piece of writing in which all the parts contribute to the development of the central idea/theme or organizing principle.
Coherence
A short, often witty, statement of a principle or truth about life. “The early bird gets the worm.”
Aphorism
The device of calling out to an imaginary, dead or absent person or to a place, thing, or personified action.
Apostrophe
Hard, awkward, or dissonant sounds use deliberately in poetry or prose;
Cacophony
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.
Enumeration
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.
Analogy
The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter.
Parallelism
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.
Allusion
it is a figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which is closely associated.
Metonymy
Feeling given off by a word
Connotation
The deliberate reputation of the 1st part of the sentence in order to achieve an an artistic effect
Anaphora
The same word returning at the end of each sentence. The repetition of phrases or words at the end of the clauses or sentences.
Epistrophe
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.
Asyndeton
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.
Polysyndeton
A literary device in which part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part.
Synecdoche
An attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience. It is something important for the reader to sense to determine an argument.
Tone
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.
Process analysis
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.
Syntax
The purposeful choice of words serving or tending to provoke, exile, or stimulate a provocation question that will frame a rhetorical argument.
Provocative Diction
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.
Classification
the glue that holds an argument together. It links the evidence to the claim.
Warrant
an erroneous argument dependent upon an unsound or illogical contention. These can be found in everyday conversations.
Fallacy
a pattern of reasoning, thinking rendered by a flow in its logical structure that can neatly be expressed in a standard logic system.
Logical Fallacy
Has all the same elements of prediction except the element of time and also has a more religious connotation.
Prophecy
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.
Pedantic
lacking proper respect or seriousness
Flippant
the use of language that suggests meanings other than the denotative. Language that connects with emotions or feelings not associated with the word
Evocative
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.
Apposition
