AP Vocab 1-20 Flashcards
Anecdote
short, simple narrative of incident- humorous
Argumentation
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
Allegory
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.
Annotation
explanatory notes added to a text to explain, cite sources, or give bibliographic data.
Antithesis
presentation of two contrasting images ideas are balanced by word, phrase, clause, or paragraphs
Rhetoric
the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.
Colloquialism
word or phrase used in everyday conversation and informal writing but that is often inappropriate in formal writing.
Connotation
words suggesting implied ,meaning because of its association in a readers mind, opposite of denotation
Consonance
repetition of an identical consonant sounds within two or more words in close proximty
Caricature
descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature of a person’s appearance or a facet of personality
Coherence
the “quality” of a piece of writing in which all parts contribute to development of central idea/ theme or organizing principle
Aphorism
short, often witty, statement of a principle or truth about life
Apostrophe
usually in poetry, sometimes in prose : calling out to an imaginery, dead, or absent person or to a place, thing, or personified abstraction.
Cacophony
dissonance- hard, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose; opposite of euphony
Connotation
tone the reader gets from a word
denotation
Dictionary definition
enumeration
rhetorical device used for listening the details or a process of mentioning words or phrases step by step
parallelism
is the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; similar in their construction, sound, meaning, or meter
alusion
brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance
metonymy
figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else which its closely associated
Anaphora
deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve on artistic effect
