Running Notes 1-32 Flashcards
Anecdote
A short simple narrative of an incident often used for humorous effect or to make a point.
Argumentation
Writing that attempts to prove validity of a point of view or idea by presenting “reasoned” arguments; persuasive writing is a form of argumentation an is the focus of AP language and composition program.
Allegory
An extended narrative of an incident in prose or verse in which characters, events, and settings are abstract and are used to underly a second meaning
Annotation
Explanatory notes added to a text to explain, cite sources etc.
Antithesis
The presentation of two contrasting images, the ideas of which are balanced by words, phrases, or clauses.
Rhetoric
The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other composition techniques such as an anecdote.
Colloquialism
A word or phrase used in everyday conversation and informal writing such as slang but is often inappropriate in formal writing IE important letters and emails
Connotation
The way a word feels to the reader.
Consonance
Repetition of identical consonant sounds within two or more words in close proximity. Ex. Pitter Patter
Caricuture
Descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature of a persons appearance or a part of personality.
Coherence
The “quality” of a piece of writing in which all parts have a coherent flow. Organization and such.
Aphorism
A short, often “witty” statement about life.
Apostrophe
Usually in poetry, but sometimes in prose: the device of calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person or to a place, thing, or personalized abstraction
Cacophony
Also referred to as dissonance … awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose
Denotation
Definition found in the dictionary
Eumeration
Rhetorical device used for listing the details or a process of mentioning words or phrases step by step.
Analogy
A comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it. it aims to at explaining things by comparing it to something that is familiar.
Parallelism
Ruse of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, or meaning.
Metonymy
Figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated.
Anaphora
In writing or speech, the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect.
Epistrophe
A stylistic device that can be defined as the repetition of phrases or words at the end of each clause or sentence
Asyndeton
a stylistic device used in literature and poetry to intentionally eliminate conjunctions between phrases and in the sentence; yet maintain the grammatical accuracy.
Polysyndeton
makes use of coordinating conjunctions like “and, or, but, nor”, which are used to join successive words, phrases, or clauses in such a way that these conjunctions are even used where they might be admitted
Synecdoche
Literary device in which a part of something represents the whole
Tone
An attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience
Process Analysis
A step by step breakdown of the phases of a process, used to convey the details of each phase of thinking, an operation, etc.
Syntax
A set of rules in a language. It dictates how words from different parts of speech are put together in order to convey a complete thought.
Provocative Diction
The purposeful choice of words serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate a question that will frame a rhetorical argument
Classification
The action or process of classifying something according to shared qualities or characteristics
Understatement
opposite of hyperbole and overstatement
Colorful Diction
very purposeful word choice that will serve to accentuate meaning and tone
