Vocabulary 1-20 Flashcards
short, simple narrative of an incident, often used for humorous effect to make a point.
Anecdotes
writing that is used to prove the validity of a point of view or an idea by presenting reasoning.
Argumentation
extended narrative of an incident in prose or verse in which characters, events, and setting 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 of satiric.
Allegory
presentation of two contrasting images, where the ideas are balanced by a word, phrase, clause, or paragraphs.
Antithesis
the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.
Rhetoric
a word or phrase (including slang) used in everyday conversation and informal writing but that is often inappropriate in formal writing. (Y’all, ain’t, can’t, somethin’)
Colloquialism
words suggesting implied meaning because of its association in a readers mind. This is the opposite of denotation.
Connotation
repetition of identical consonant sounds within two or more words in close proximity: boot/ beat/ best/ brag, or even compound words fulfill, ping-pong
Consonance
descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature of a persons appearance or a facet of personality.
Caricature
the “quality” of a piece of writing in which all the parts contribute to the development of the central idea / theme or organizing principle
Coherence
a short, often witty, statement of a principle or truth about life. Ben Franklin was somewhat famous for these in “Poor Richard’s Almanac”, e.g. “The early bird gets the worm”
Aphorism
explanatory notes added to a text to explain, cite sources, or give bibliographic data. In AP language you need to demonstrate DETAILED annotation on most of your reading.
Annotation
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 personified abstraction
Apostrophe
also referred to as Dissonance… hard, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose; the opposite of Euphony
Cacophony
a rhetorical device used for listing the details or a process of mentioning words or phrases step by step. In fact, it is a type of amplification or division in which a subject is further distributed into components or parts. Writers use this to clarify and detail understanding.
Enumeration
an analogy is comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it. It aims at explaining that idea or thing by comparing it to something that is familiar.
Analogy
parallelism is the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning, or meter. Parallelism examples are found in literary works as well as in ordinary conversations.
Parallelism
a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, culture, literary or political significance. It does not describe in detail the person or thing to which it refers. It is just a passing comment and the writer expects the reader to possess enough knowledge to spot the allusion and grasp its importance.
Allusion
it is a figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated. We can come across examples of metonymy both from literature an din everyday life. Do not confuse this with a metaphor as a metonymy is not creating comparison.
Metonymy
the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests
Dennotation
