Week 1 Flashcards
The device of suing character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction lie hope or freedom. The allegorical meaning usually deals with moral truth or a generalization about human existence.
Allegory
The repetition of sounds, especially initial consonants in low or more neighboring words (as in “she sells sea shells.) Although the term is not used frequently in the multiple-choice section, you can look for alliteration in any essay passage. The repetition can reinforce meaning, unify ideas, supply a musical sound, and/or echo the sense of the passage
Alliteration
A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art. Allusions can be historical, literary, religious, topical, or mythical. There are many more possibilities, and a work may simultaneously use multiple layers of allusion.
Allusion
The multiple meanings, either international or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage.
Ambiguity
A similarity or comparison between tow different things or the relationship between them. An analogy can explain something unfamiliar by associating it with or pointing out its similarity to something more familiar. Analogies can also make writing more vivid, imaginative, or intellectually engaging
Analogy
One of the devices or repetition, in which the same expression (word or words) is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences.
Anaphora
A short narrative detailing particulars of an interesting episode or event. The term most frequently refers to an incident in the life of a person.
Anecdote
The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun. The AP Language exam occasionally asks for the antecedent of a given pronoun in a long, complex sentence or in a group of sentences
Antecedent
Figure of balance in which two contrasting ideas are intentionally juxtaposed, usually through parallel structure; a contrasting of opposing ideas in adjacent phrases, clauses, or sentences. Creates a definite and systematic relationship between ideas.
Antithesis
A terse statement of know authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle. (If the authorship is unknown, the statement is generally considered to be a folk proverb.) Can be a memorable summation of the author’s point.
Aphorism
A guide of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, bausch as liberty or love. It is an address to someone or something that cannot answer. The effect is to give vent to or display intense emotion, which can no longer be held back.
Apostrophe
Consists of omitting conjunctions between words, phrases or clauses. This can give the effect of unpremeditated multiplicity, or an extemporaneous rather than a labored around. ________ lists can be more emphatic than if a final conduction were used.
Asyndeton
The emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author’s choice of objects that are described. Even such elements as description of the weather can contribute to the atmosphere. Frequently atmosphere foreshadows events, and perhaps can create a mood.
Atmosphere
(From the Greek word for “for criss-cross,” a designation based on the Greek letter “chi,” written X.) A figure of speech in which two successive phrases or clauses are parallel in syntax, but reverse the order of the analogous words.
Chiasmus
A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb. An independent, or main, clause expresses a complete though and can sand alone as a sentence. A dependent, or subordinate clause cannot stand alone as a sentence and must be accompanied by an independent clause. The point that you want to consider is the question of what or why the author subordinates one element to the other. You should also become aware of making effective use of subordination in your own writing.
Clause
