Vocab 1-12 Flashcards
A short, simple narrative of an incident, often used for humorous effect or to make a point.
Anecdote
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.
Argumentation
An extended narrative of an incident in prose or verse in which character, events, and settings represent abstract qualities and in which the writer intends a second meaning to be read beneath the surface of the story, the underlying meaning may be moral, religious, political, social, or satiric.
Allegory
Explanatory notes added to text to explain, cite sources, or give bibliographic data. In AP Language you will need to demonstrate detailed annotation on most of your readings.
Annotation
The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.
Rhetoric
A word or phrase used in everyday conversation and informal writing but is often inappropriate in formal writing.
Colloquialism
Words suggesting implied meaning because of its association in a reader’s mind. The opposite of denotation.
Connotation
Repetition of identical consonant sounds within two or more words in close proximity. (Even compound words: Ping-pong, fulfill)
Consonance
Descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature of a person’s appearance or personality.
Caricature
The “quality” of a piece of writing in which all the parts contribute to the development of a central idea, theme, or organizing principle.
Coherence
A short, often witty, statement of a principle or truth about life. Benjamin Franklin was somewhat famous for these in Poor Richard’s Almanac.
Aphorism
Usually in poetry, but sometimes in prose: the devise of calling out to an imaginary, dead. or absent person or to a place, thing, or personified abstraction.
Apostrophe
