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
