AP Vocabulary 9.

Question 1

Syntactic Fluency

Answer 1

ability to create a variety of sentence structures, appropriately complex and/or simple and varied in length

Question 2

Syntactic Permutation

Answer 2

sentence structures that are extraordinarily complex and involved. they are often difficult for the novice reader to follow

Question 3

Syntax

Answer 3

the grammatical structure of a sentence; the arrangement of words in a sentence. syntax includes length of sentence, kinds of sentence (questions, exclamations, declarative sentences, rhetorical questions, simple, complex, or compound).

Question 4

Theme

Answer 4

the central idea or “message” or a literary work

Question 5

Thesis

Answer 5

the main idea of a piece of writing. It presents the author’s assertion or claim. the effectiveness of a presentation is often based on how well the writer presents, develops, and supports the thesis

Question 6

Tone

Answer 6

the characteristic emotion or attitude of an author toward the characters, subject, and audience (anger, sarcastic, loving, didactic, emotional, etc.)

Question 7

Transition

Answer 7

a word or phrase that links one idea to the next and carries the reader from sentence to sentence, paragraph to paragraph

Question 8

Understatement

Answer 8

the opposite of exaggeration. it is a technique for developing irony and/or humor where one writes or says less than intended

Question 9

Voice

Answer 9

refers to two different areas of writing. 1) the relationship between a sentence’s subject and verb (active and passive voice). 2) the total ‘sound’ of a writer’s style

Question 10

Anaphora

Answer 10

Probably the oldest of the literary devices is the use of a word or phrase over and over and over.