AP vocabulary 1-20

Question 1

a short simple narrative of a incident, often used for humorous effect or to make a point.

Answer 1

ANECDOTE

Question 2

writing that attempts to prove the vadality of a point of view or a idea by presenting “reasoned” arguments; persuasive writing is a form of argumentation and is the focus of AP Language and composition program.

Answer 2

ARGUMENTATION

Question 3

an extended narrative of an incident in prose or verse in which characters, events, and setting represent abstract qualities and which the writer intends a second meaning may be the moral, religious, political, social, or satanic.

Answer 3

ALLEGORY

Question 4

explanatory notes added to the side of text to explain, cite sources or to give bibliographic data. in AP Language you will need to demonstrate detailed annotation on most of your reading.

Answer 4

ANNOTATION

Question 5

presentation of two contrasting images. ideads are balanced by word, phrases, clause, or paragraph/”to be or not to be..”

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ANITITHESIS

Question 6

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

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RHETORIC

Question 7

Colloquialism

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A word or phrase including slang used in every day conversation and in formal writing but is often inappropriate in formal writing

Question 8

connotation

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words suggesting implied meaning because of its association in a readers mind this is the opposite of denotation

Question 9

consonance

Answer 9

repetition of identical consonant sounds within two or more words in close proximity (boot/beat/best/brag)

Question 10

caricature

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descriptive writing that greatly exaggerated A specific feature of a persons appearance or facet of personality

Question 11

coherence

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The quality of a piece of writing in which all parts contribute to the development of a central idea,theme, or organizing principle

Question 12

aphorism

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

Question 13

apostrophe

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usually in poetry,but sometimes in prose: the device of calling out the an imaginary/dead/absent person or to a place thing or personified abstraction

Question 14

cacophony

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referred to as dissonance:hard awkward or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry of prose

Question 15

connotation/denotation

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connotation-implied meanig

denotation-literal meaning

Question 16

enumeration

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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 subject distributed into components or parts

Question 17

analogy

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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

Question 18

parallelism

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

Question 19

allusion

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a brief and indirect reference to a person place or thing or ideas of historical cultural literary or political significance. it does not describe in detail the person or place or thing to which it refers

Question 20

metonymy

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figure of speechthat replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated