AP Terminology (Day 9) Flashcards
syntactic fluency
ability to create a variety of sentence structures, appropriately complex and/or simple and varied in length
syntactic permutation
sentence structures that are extraordinarily complex and involved
syntax
The grammatical structure of a sentence
theme
The central idea or “message” of a literary work
thesis
The main idea of a piece of writing
tone
The characteristic emotion or attitude of an author toward the characters, subject and audience
transition
A word or phrase that links one idea to the next and carries the reader from sentence to sentence, paragraph to paragraph
understatement
The opposite of exaggeration
voice
Refers to two different areas of writing. One refers to the relationship between a sentence’s subject and verb. The second refers to the total “sound” of a writer’s style
asyndeton
Not many conjunctions are used
polysyndeton
Use of many conjunctions
anaphora
The use of a word or phrase over and over and over; very purposeful
