AP Notes 1-20

Question 1

A short simple narrative of an incident, often used for humorous effect or to make a point.

Answer 1

Anecdote

Question 2

Writing that attempts to prove the validity of a point of view or an idea by representing ¨reasoned¨ argument; persuasive writing is a form of argumentation and is focus of the AP language and composition program.

Answer 2

Argumentation

Question 3

An extended narrative of an incident in prose or verse in which characters, events, and settings represent abstract qualities and in which the writers intends a second meaning to be read beneath the surface of the story; the underlying meaning may be moral, religious, political, social, or satiric.

Answer 3

Allegory

Question 4

Explanatory notes added to a text to explain, cite source, or give bibliographic data. In AP Lang. you will need to demonstrate detailed annotation on most of your readings.

Answer 4

Annotation

Question 5

The presentation of two contrasting images. The ideas are balanced by word, phrase, clause, or paragraphs. “To be or not to be …¨

Answer 5

Antithesis

Question 6

The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of speech and other compositional techniques. This is the core of the AP Lang. program.

Answer 6

Rhetoric

Question 7

A word often or phrase (including slang) used in everyday conversation and informal writing but is often inappropriate informal writing. ( yáll, ain´t, can´t, somethin)

Answer 7

Colloquialism

Question 8

Words suggesting implied meaning because of its association in a readers mind. This is the opposite of ¨denotation¨

Answer 8

connotation

Question 9

Repetition of identical consonant sounds within two or more words in close proximity: boot/beat/best/brag, or even compound words, fulfill, ping-pong

Answer 9

Consonance

Question 10

Descriptive writing that greatly exaggerated

Answer 10

Caricature

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Coherence

Question 12

A short, often witty, statement of a principle or truth about life. Benjamin Franklin was somewhat famous for these in Poor Richards Almanac, e.g. ¨the early bird gets the worm.¨

Answer 12

Aphorism

Question 13

Usually in poetry, but sometimes in prose: the device of calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person or to a place, things, or a personified abstraction.

Answer 13

Apostrophe

Question 14

Also referred to as dissonance… hard, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose; the opposite of euphony.

Answer 14

Cacophony

Question 15

Connotation - an idea or feeling a word invokes.

Denotation- Literal meaning of a word

Answer 15

Connotation- Denotation

Question 16

Enumeration in 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 in which a subject is further distributed into components or parts. Writers use this to clarify and detail understanding.

Answer 16

Enumeration

Question 17

An analogy is a comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it. It aims at explaining that is familiar.

Answer 17

Analogy

Question 18

Parallelism is the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning, or meter. Parallelism examples are found in literary works as well as ordinary conversations.

Answer 18

Parallelism

Question 19

Allusion is 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 the reader to possess enough. Knowledge to spot the allusion and grasp its importance in a text.

Answer 19

Alusion

Question 20

It is a figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated. We can come across examples of metaphor as a metonymy is not creating a comparison.

Answer 20

Metonymy