AP Notes 1-20 Flashcards
A short simple narrative of an incident, often used for humorous effect or to make a point.
Anecdote
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.
Argumentation
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.
Allegory
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.
Annotation
The presentation of two contrasting images. The ideas are balanced by word, phrase, clause, or paragraphs. “To be or not to be …¨
Antithesis
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.
Rhetoric
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)
Colloquialism
Words suggesting implied meaning because of its association in a readers mind. This is the opposite of ¨denotation¨
connotation
Repetition of identical consonant sounds within two or more words in close proximity: boot/beat/best/brag, or even compound words, fulfill, ping-pong
Consonance
Descriptive writing that greatly exaggerated
Caricature
The quality” of a piece of writing in which all parts contribute to the development central idea/theme or organizing principle
Coherence
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.¨
Aphorism
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.
Apostrophe
Also referred to as dissonance… hard, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose; the opposite of euphony.
Cacophony
Connotation - an idea or feeling a word invokes.
Denotation- Literal meaning of a word
Connotation- Denotation
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.
Enumeration
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.
Analogy
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.
Parallelism
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.
Alusion
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.
Metonymy
