AP Vocabulary 1-20 Flashcards
short, simple narrative of an incident, often used for humorous effect or to make a point
anecdote
writing that attempts to prove the validity of a point of view or an idea by presenting “reasoned” arguments; persuasive writing is a form of this.
argumentation
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; an underlying meaning may be moral, religious, political, social or satiric.
allegory
explanatory notes added to a text to explain, cite sources, or give bibliographic data.
annotation
The presentation of two contrasting images. The ideas are balanced by words, phrases, clauses, or paragraphs. “To be or not yo be…”, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”.
antithesis
the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other composition techniques.
rhetoric
a word or phrase( including slang) used in everyday conversation and informal writing( y’all, ain’t, can’t, somethin’)
colloquialism
words suggesting implied meaning because of its association in a reader’s mind. That is the opposite of “denotation”.
connotation
Repetition of identical consonant sounds within 2 or more words in close proximity: boot/beat/best/ brag, or even compound words, fulfill, ping-pong
Consonance
Descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature of a person’s appearance or a facet of personification.
Caricature
The quality of a piece of writing in which all the parts contribute to the development of the central idea/theme or organizing principle.
Coherence
A short, often witty, statement of a principle or truth about life. Benjamin Franklin was somewhat famous for these in Poor Richard’s Almanac, e.g. “The early bird gets the worm”
Aphorism
Usually in poetry, but sometimes in prose: the device of calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person or to a place, thing, or personified abstraction.
Apostrophe
Also referred to as DISSONANCE… hard, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose; the opposite of EUPHONY
Cacophony
1) emotional
2) dictionary
1) connotation
2) denotation
A rhetorical device used for listing the details or a process of mentioning words or phrases step by step. In fact, it is a type of amplification or division in which a student is further distributed into components or pairs. Writers use this to clarify and detail understanding.
Enumeration
A comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it. It aims at explaining that idea or thing by comparing it to something that is familiar.
Analogy
Use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning, or meter.
Parallelism
Brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. It does not describe in detail the person or thing to which it refers. It is just a passing comment and the writer expects the reader to posses enough knowledge to spot and grasp it.
Allusion
A figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely related to.
Metonymy
