AP Vocab 1-20

Question 1

Anecdote

Answer 1

short, simple narrative of incident- humorous

Question 2

Argumentation

Answer 2

writing attempts to prove validity of a point of view or an idea by presenting “reasoned arguments”; persuasive writing is a form of argumentation and is focus of AP

Question 3

Allegory

Answer 3

an extended narrative of an incident in prose or verse in which characters, events, and settings represent abstract qualities and in which the writer intends a second meaning to be read beneath the surface of the story, underlying meaning may be moral, religious, political, social, or satiric.

Question 4

Annotation

Answer 4

explanatory notes added to a text to explain, cite sources, or give bibliographic data.

Question 5

Antithesis

Answer 5

presentation of two contrasting images ideas are balanced by word, phrase, clause, or paragraphs

Question 6

Rhetoric

Answer 6

the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.

Question 7

Colloquialism

Answer 7

word or phrase used in everyday conversation and informal writing but that is often inappropriate in formal writing.

Question 8

Connotation

Answer 8

words suggesting implied ,meaning because of its association in a readers mind, opposite of denotation

Question 9

Consonance

Answer 9

repetition of an identical consonant sounds within two or more words in close proximty

Question 10

Caricature

Answer 10

descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature of a person’s appearance or a facet of personality

Question 11

Coherence

Answer 11

the “quality” of a piece of writing in which all parts contribute to development of central idea/ theme or organizing principle

Question 12

Aphorism

Answer 12

short, often witty, statement of a principle or truth about life

Question 13

Apostrophe

Answer 13

usually in poetry, sometimes in prose : calling out to an imaginery, dead, or absent person or to a place, thing, or personified abstraction.

Question 14

Cacophony

Answer 14

dissonance- hard, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose; opposite of euphony

Question 15

Connotation

Answer 15

tone the reader gets from a word

Question 16

denotation

Answer 16

Dictionary definition

Question 17

enumeration

Answer 17

rhetorical device used for listening the details or a process of mentioning words or phrases step by step

Question 18

parallelism

Answer 18

is the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; similar in their construction, sound, meaning, or meter

Question 19

alusion

Answer 19

brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance

Question 20

metonymy

Answer 20

figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else which its closely associated

Question 21

Anaphora

Answer 21

deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve on artistic effect