AP Terminology (Day 9)

Question 1

ability to create a variety of sentence structures, appropriately complex and/or simple and varied in length

Answer 1

Syntactic Fluency

Question 2

sentence structures that are extraordinarily complexed and involved. They are often difficult for the novice reader to follow.

Answer 2

Syntactic Permutation

Question 3

the grammatical structure of a sentence; the arrangement if words in a sentence. It includes length of a sentence, kinds of sentences (questions, exclamations, declarative sentences, rhetorical questions, simple, complex, or compound).

Answer 3

Syntax

Question 4

the central idea or “message” of a literary work

Answer 4

Theme

Question 5

the main idea of a piece of writing. It presents the author’s assertion or claim. The effectiveness of a presentation is often based on how well the writer presents, develops, and supports this.

Answer 5

Thesis

Question 6

the characteristic emotion or attitude of an author toward the characters, subject, and audience (anger, sarcastic, loving, didactic, emotional, etc.)

Answer 6

Tone

Question 7

a word or phrase that links one idea to the next and carries the reader from sentence to sentence, paragraph to paragraph.

Answer 7

Transition

Question 8

the opposite of exaggeration. It is a technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended

Answer 8

Understatement

Question 9

refers to two different areas of writing. One refers to the relationship between a sentence’s subject and verb (active and passive voice). The second refers to the total “sound” of a writer’s style.

Answer 9

Voice

Question 10

building a sentence without using conjunctions (and, but)

Answer 10

Asyndaton

Question 11

building sentences using conjuctions

Answer 11

Polysyndaton

Question 12

probably the oldest of the literary devices is the use of a word or phrase over and over and over

Answer 12

Anaphora