AP Terms 8 Flashcards
Syntactic Fluency
ability to create a variety of sentence structures
Syntactic Permutation
sentence structures that are extraordinarily complex and involved
Syntax
the grammatical structure of a sentence; the arrangement of words in 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 another and carries the reader from sentence to sentence, paragraph to paragraph
Understatement
the opposite of exaggeration;technique used for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended
Voice
refers to 2 different areas of writing one refers to relationship between subject and verb of sentence. the second refers to the total “sound” of a writer’s style
Asyndaton
where no conjunctions are used
Polysyndaton
where many conjunctions are used
Anaphora
use of a word or phrase over and over and over
