Ap vocabulary 1-51

Question 1

Anecdote

Answer 1

Short narrative of an incident

used for humorous effect or to make a point

Question 2

Argumentation

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Writing that attempts to prove the validity of an idea presenting reasoned arguments

Question 3

Allegory

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Extend narrative of an incident in PROSE or VERSE in which characters and settings represent abstract qualities and in which the writer intends a second meaning beneath the appearance of the story

Question 4

Annotation

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Explanatory notes often added to a text ( explain/ give bibliographic data)

Question 5

Antithesis

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Presentation of 2 contrasting images.

The ideas are balanced by word,phrase, clause or paragraphs. ( to be or not to be)

Question 6

Rhetoric

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Art of the persuasive or effective speaking or writing (using figures of speech and other compositional techniques)

Question 7

Colloquialism

Answer 7

Word or phrase used in the common speech/ everyday conversation and informal writing ( inappropriate in formal language: can’t/ain’t/ y’all)

Question 8

Connotation

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Word suggesting implied meaning because of its association in a reader’s mind ( opposite of denotation)

Question 9

Consonance

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Repetition of identical consonant sounds within two or more words in proximity/ compound words

Question 10

Caricature

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Descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specificities feature of a person’s appearance or a facet of personally

Question 11

Coherence

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Quality of a piece of writing in which all the parts contribute to the development of the theme/ organizing the principle

Question 12

Aphorism

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Short, often witty, statement of a principle or truth about life

Question 13

Apostrophe

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In poetry, sometimes in prose: device of calling out to an imaginary, dead or absent person or to a place, personified abstraction

Question 14

Cacophony

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Dissonance; dissonant/hard sounds used deliberately in poetry (opposite of Euphony)

Question 15

Enumeration

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Device used for listing details, process of mentioning word/phrases step by step. Type of amplification or division in which a subject is further distributed into part

Question 16

Denotation

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The denotation of a word or phrase is its explicit or direct meaning. Another way to think of it is as the associations that a word usually elicits for most speakers of a language, as distinguished from those elicited for any individual speaker because of personal experience.

Question 17

Connotation

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The connotation of a word or phrase is the associated or secondary meaning; it can be something suggested or implied by a word or thing, rather than being explicitly named or described.

Question 18

Analogy

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Comparison in which an idea is compared to another thing that is quite different from it. Explaining it by comparing it with something familiar.

Question 19

Parallelism

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Use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same/ similar construction/ meter/sounds/meaning

Question 20

Allusion

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Brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance. Not detailed. writer expect the reader to posses enough knowledge

Question 21

Metonymy

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Figure of speech that replace the name of a thing with the name of something also, which is closely associated to it

Question 22

Anaphora

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Deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence for an artistic effect. Possibly the oldest literary device (Biblical Psalms) emphasize certain words or phrases

Question 23

Epistrophe/Epiphora

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Greek word: Turning upon. It’s indicates the same word returns at the end of each sentence. It’s a stylistic device that can be defined as the repetition of phrases or words at the end of the end of the sentence

Question 24

Asyndeton

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Unconnected. It’s a device used to intentionally eliminate conjunctions between the phrases and in the sentence, maintaining the grammatically accuracy.
Help to present a concise form reducing indirect meanings. Speeding up the rhythm of the words. Used more often in speech

Question 25

Polysyndeton

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Repetition of conjunctions in close succession

Question 26

Synecdoche

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A part of something represents the whole or the whole representing a part

Question 27

Tone

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An attitude f a writer toward a subject or an audience. It’s something important or the reader to “sense” to determine an argument

Question 28

Process analysis

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Step-by-step process of breakdown of the phases, used to convey the details of each phase of thinking. Often used to improve understanding.

Question 29

Syntax

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Set of rules in a language. Dictates law words from different part of speech are put together in order to convey a complete though. English: how we arrange words choice of specific word: DICTION

Question 30

Provocative diction

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Purposeful choice of words serving or tending to provoke, excite or stimulate a provocative question that will frame a rhetorical argument

Question 31

Classification

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Classifying something according to shared qualities or characteristics. Argumentative response to provide the reader with structure to your argument. Support to both Logos and Ethos

Question 32

Understatement

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Opposite of Hyperbole/Overstatement; Decrease the intensity of the loss.

Question 33

Colorful Diction

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Purposeful word choice that will serve to accentuate meaning and tone

Question 34

Counterargument

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Group idea put forward to oppose an idea developed in another argument. Argumentative mode: Mandatory

Question 35

Claim

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To give an argument to support its position:making a claim. Generally different reasons are proposed

Question 36

Evidence

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Type of literary device that appears in different categories in the form of PARAPHRASE and quotations. It’s presented to persuade the readers. In rhetoric when a person makes a claim: support of his claim.
If there isn’t any evidence the claim stands quashed. Literary evidence: persuasion

Question 37

Warrant

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A warrant is the glue that holds an argument together.It links the evidence to the claim.
Statement of support of WHY yours evidence supports your claim.

Question 38

Fallacy

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It’s an erroneous argument dependent upon an unsound or illogical connection. There are many fallacy examples that we can find in everyday conversation

Question 39

Logical Fallacy

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In argumentation , a formal fallacy is a pattern of reasoning/thinking rendered invalid by a flow in its logical structure that can nearly be expressed in a standard logic system. An argument that is formally fallacious is considered wrong.

Question 40

Prophecy

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A prophecy has all the elements of a prediction but it’s not defined in term of time( it has a more religious connotation)

Question 41

Prediction

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It’s a forecast made by those that interpret the parameters of the subject involved and evaluating those they predict the future

Question 42

Adage

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Short, memorable, pointed saying based on facts, Considered a veritable truth by the majority of people. General fact or truth about life, and accepted as it becomes popular as universal truth

Question 43

Pedantic

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(French word: pedant; means to teach or to act as a pedagogue) It’ someone concerned with precision, formalism,accuracy, minute details in order to make him arrogant or annoying

Question 44

Flippant

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Lacking proper respect / seriousness. This is often associated with the youth impatience( SYN : flighty,cocky,cheeky; ANT: earnest)

Question 45

Evocative

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Use of language that suggest other meanings than denotative. Language that connects with emotions or feelings not associated with the actual meaning of the word

Question 46

Syntactical Inversion/ Anastrophe

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Inversion, syntactic reversal of the normal order of the words and phrases in a sentence

Question 47

Apposition

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Grammatical construction in which two elements, normally noun of the phrases, are placed side by side, with one element serving to identify the other in a different way.

Question 48

Didactic

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Literally text overloaded with informative or realistic matter and with an omission of pleasing details. Didactic,therefore, become a derogatory term referring to the famous of literature that are erudite. But also some entertainment texts can be didactic

Question 49

Conceit

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It’s a figure of speech in which two vastly different objects are linked together with the help of similes or metaphors.
Shocking effect on the readers because of that metaphors and comparisons

Question 50

Periodic Sentence

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It has the main clause or predicate at the end. This is used for emphasis and can be persuasive by putting reasons for something at the beginning before the final point is made . Also create suspence or interest for the reader.

Question 51

Parodox

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It’s a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or silly but may include a latent truth. It is also used to illustrate an opinion contrary to accepted traditional ideas. It’s often used to make a reader think over an idea in innovative way