AP vocabulary 1-21

Question 1

Anecdote

Answer 1

a short, simple narrative of an indecent, often used for humorous effect or to make a point

Question 2

Argumentation

Answer 2

writing that attempts to prove the validity of a point of view or an idea by presenting “reasoned” arguments ex: persuasive writing

Question 3

Allegory

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Annotation

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Antithesis

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

Question 6

Rhetoric

Answer 6

the art of the 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 (including slang) used in everyday conversation and informal writing but that is often inappropriate in formal writing

Question 8

Connotation

Answer 8

words suggesting implies meaning because of its association in the readers mind this is the opposite of denotation-(feeling emotion from a word)

Question 9

Consonance

Answer 9

repetition of identical consonant sounds within 2 or more words in close proximity boot/beat/best/brag or even compound words fulfill, pin-pong

Question 10

Caricature

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

Question 11

Coherence

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

Question 12

Aphorism

Answer 12

a short often witty statement of a principle or truth about life Benjamin Franklin was somewhat famous for these in poor Richard Almanac” the early bird gets the worm”

Question 13

Apostrophe

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Cacophony

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also referred to as dissonance hard awkward or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose the opposite of euphony

Question 15

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 is further distributes into components or parts writers use this to clarify and detail understanding

Question 16

Analogy

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a comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing is quite different from it is aims at explaining that idea or thing by comparing it to something familiar

Question 17

Parallelism

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

Question 18

Allusion

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Brief an indirect reference to a person place thing or idea of historical cultural literary or political significance it doesn’t describe in detail a person or thing to which it refers It is just a passing comment And the writer expects The reader to possess enough knowledge to spot the illusion and grasp it’s importance to the text

Question 19

Metonymy

Answer 19

Figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with it closely associated

Question 20

Anaphora

Answer 20

In writing or speech the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect is known as a Nefra possibly the oldest literature literary device has its roots in biblical Psalms used to emphasize certain words or phrases gradually Elizabeth EN and romantic writers brought this device into practice