AP VOCABULARY 1-24

Question 1

Anecdote

Answer 1

a short simple narrative of an incident, 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; persuasive writing is a form of argumentation and is the focus of the AP language and composition program.

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 may be moral, eliious, political, social, or satiric.

Question 4

annotation

Answer 4

explanatory notes added to a text to explain, cite sources, or give bibliographic data. in AP language you will need to demonstrate detailed annotation on most or your readings.

Question 5

anitithesis

Answer 5

presentation of two contrasting images. Ideas are balanced by word, phrase, cause, clause, or paragraph.” “To be or not to be…”, ‘Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what what you can do for your country.”

Question 6

Rhetoric

Answer 6

the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other composition techniques. This is the CORE of the AP Language Program.

Question 7

colloquialism

Answer 7

a word or phrase (including slang) used in everyday conversation and informal writing but that is often inappropriate in formal writing. (ya’ll, ain’t, cain’t, something’)

Question 8

connotation

Answer 8

words suggesting implied meaning because of it’s 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/brog, or even compound words, fulfill pingpong.

Question 10

caricature

Answer 10

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

Question 11

coherence

Answer 11

the “quality” of a piece of writing in which all the parts contribute to the development of 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’s almanac, eg.
“the early bird gets the worm”

Question 13

Apostrophe

Answer 13

usually in poetry, but sometimes in prose: the device is calling out ta an imaginary, dead, or absent person or to a place, thing, or personified abstract.

Question 14

cacophony

Answer 14

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

Question 15

connotation- Denotation

Answer 15

words suggesting implied meaning because of it’s association in a readers mind. this is the opposite of denotation.

Question 16

enumeration

Answer 16

enumeration is 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 distributed into components or part. writers used this to clarify and detail understandings.

Question 17

Analogy

Answer 17

an analogy is a comparison in which an idea or 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

Answer 18

parallelism is the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar to their construction, sound, meaning or meter. parallelism examples are found in literary works as well as ordinary conversations.

Question 19

Allusion

Answer 19

allusion is a brief and indirect references to a person, place, idea, or thing of historical, cultural, literacy or political significance. It does not describe in detail the person or thing passing comment and the writer expects the passing comments and the writer expects the reader to possess enough knowledge to spot the allusion and grasp its importance in a text.

Question 20

metonymy

Answer 20

it is a figure of speech that replaces the name oa a thing with the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated. We can come across examples of metonymy both from literature and in everyday life. Do not confuse this with a metaphor as a metaphor as a METONYMY is not creating a comparison.

Question 21

Anaphora

Answer 21

In writing or speech, the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic is known as anaphora. Anaphora, possibly the oldest literary device, has its roots in biblical psalms used to emphasize certain words, or phases. Gradually, Elizabethan and Romantic writers brought this device into practice.

Question 22

Epistrophe

Answer 22

Epistrophe is derived from greek word that means turning upon, which indicates the same word returns at the end of each sentence. Epistrophe is a stylistic device that can be defined as the repetition of pphrases or words

Question 23

asyndeton

Answer 23

is derived from a greek word asyndeton wich means unconnected. it is a stylistic device used in literature and poetry to intentionally eliminate conjuctions bettween the phrases and i the sentence, yet maintain the grammatical accuracy. This literacy tool helps in reducing the indirect meanning of the phrase amd presents it in a concise form. asyndeton helps in speeding up the rythm of words. Mostly this technique is employed in speech but can be used in written works too.