AP Notes #1 Flashcards
Anecdote
Short simple narrative of an incident, often used for humorous effect or to make a point
Argumentation
Writing that attempts to prone the validity of a point of view or an by presenting reasoned arguments
Allegory
Extended narrative of an incident in prose or verse in which characters, events and setting represent abstract qualities
Annotation
Exploratory notes added to a text to explain, cite sources, or give bibliographic to AP Lang
Antithesis
Presentation of two contrasting images
Rhetoric
Art of effective or,persuasive speaking,or writing
Colloquialism
Word or phrase used in everyday conversation and informal writing
Consonance
Repetition of identical constant sounds within two or more words in close proximity
Caricature
Descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature of a person’s appearance or a facet of personality
Coherence
Quality of a piece of writing in which all the parts contribute to the development of the central idea/theme or organizing principle
Aphorism
Short, often witty, statement of a principle or truth about life
Apostrophe
Device of calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person or to a place, thing or personified obstructions
Cacophony.
Hard, awkward or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose
Enumeration
Rhetorical device used for listing the details or a process of mentioning words or phrases step by step
Synecdoche
Part represents whole
Process analysis
Step by step breakdown of phases of a process used to convey the details of each phase of thinking
Tone
Generally conveyed through choice of words
Syntax
Dictates how words of different speech are put together to convey thought
Provocative Diction
Purposeful choice of words serving or tending to provide, excite, or stimulate a provocative question
Classification
Action or process of classifying something according to shared qualities or characteristics
Understatement
Opposite of hyperbole or overstatement
Colorful Diction
Very purposeful word choice serves to accentuate meaning and tone
Counterargument
Argument or set of reasons put toward to oppose an idea
Claim
Someone giving an argument to support their position
Evidence
Type of literary device that appears in different categories of essays
Warrant
Glue that holds an argument together
Fallacy
Emoneous Argument dependent upon an unsound or illogical connection
Logical Fallacy
Pattern of reasoning rendered invalid by a flaw in its logical structure that can neatly be expressed in a standard logic system
Prophecy
All elements of a prediction minus time
Prediction
Forecast made by those who calculate the parameters of the subject involved after evaluating the odds they can predict the future
Analogy
Comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it
Parallelism
Use of components in a sentence that ate grammatically the same or similar in structure sound meaning or meter
Allusion
Brief and indirect reference to a person place thing or idea of historically culture literary or political significance
Metonymy
Figure of speech replaces name of thing with name of something else with which it us closely related
Anaphora
Deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence to achieve an artistic effect known as anaphora
Epistrophe
Indicates sane word returns at end of each sentence explicit device that can be defined as the repetition of phrases or words at the end of clauses or sentences
Asyndeton
Stylistic device used in lit and poetry to intentionally eliminate conjunction between the phrases and in the sentence, maintain the grammatical accuracy
Polysyndeton
Coordinates conjunctions like and or but and nor
Connotation
Word suggesting implied meaning because of its association in a reader’s mind. Opposite of denotation
Connotation
Word suggesting implied meaning because of its association in a reader’s mind. Opposite of denotation,
