AP Terminology Day 9

Question 1

Ability to create a variety of sentence structures, approximately complex and/or simple and varied in length.

Answer 1

Syntactic Fluency

Question 2

Sentence structures that are extraordinary complex and involved. Often difficult for novice readers to follow.

Answer 2

Syntactic Permutation

Question 3

grammatical structure of a sentence; arrangement of words in a sentence.

Answer 3

Syntax

Question 4

Central idea or “message” of a literary work.

Answer 4

Theme

Question 5

Main idea of a piece of writing, presents the authors assertion or claim.

Answer 5

Thesis

Question 6

Characteristic emotion or attitude of an author toward the characters, subject, and audience.

Answer 6

Tone

Question 7

Word/phrase that links one idea to the next and carries the reader from sentence to sentence, paragraph to paragraph.

Answer 7

Transition

Question 8

Opposite of exaggeration. Technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended.

Answer 8

Understatement

Question 9

2 different areas of writing. 1 refers to the relationship between a sentence’s subject and verb. 2nd refers to the total “sound” of the writer’s style.

Answer 9

Voice

Question 10

Building a sentence without using conjunctions.

Answer 10

Asyndeton

Question 11

Building sentences using conjunctions.

Answer 11

Polysyndeton

Question 12

Use of a word/phrase over and over for a purpose.

Answer 12

Anaphora