a-AP English Terms
Terms
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- elegiac
- mourning
- imperious
- urgent, arrogantly overbearing
- inductive
-
particular/observed facts
->general conclusion - deduction
- reasoning from general principles
- strident
- offensively loud
- supercilious
- haughtily disdainful
- tentative
- uncertain, hesitant
- cryptic
- difficult to understand
- indolent
- lazy
- insipid
- boring
- torpor
- inactivity
- gratuitous
- given freely, unwarranted
- tenuous
- of little substance, weak
- assiduous
- hard working
- incumbent
- obligatory
- amenable
- aggreable
- dilettante
- one with amateur understanding
- pejorative
- belitting phrases
- insolent
- insulting
- sedentary
- settled
- timorous
- timid
- replete
- filled
- apology
- defense of an idea
- chiasmus
- an inversion in the second of two parallel phrases
- sardonic
- harsh, bitter
- syllogism
-
type of deduction
major premise, minor premise, conclusion - ad hominem
- criticizes argument by criticizing person
- appeal to ignorance
- whatever has not been proven false must be true (and VV)
- begging the question
- circular reasoning
- non sequitur
- statement that does relate to sentence before
- process analysis
- how to do something or how something was done
- faulty causality
- creating a cause and effect situation where there is none
- straw man arg.
- oversimplification of an argument to attack it easily
- red herring
- shifting attention with irrelevent issue
- equivocation
- lying by omission
- anecdote
- a short account of an interesting incident
- appositive
-
noun (phrase) that renames noun right beside
Bob, a soccer player,... - caustic
- sarcastic, harsh
- captious
- critical
- antithesis
- where two contrasting ideas are juxtaposed
- impressionistic
- meant to give an impression rather than a complete realistic picture
- epigram
- short witty remark
- platitude
- cliche
- hortatory
- marked by exhortion
- idiom
-
a non literal expression
language character - epithet
- stereotyping phrase
- harangue
- tirade
- litote
-
a negative antonym
not unsuccessful - elliptical constructions
- when something in the sentence is eliminated that is already understood
- interjection
-
exclamation, added to convey emotion
wow!, good lord! - to underscore
- to emphasize
- concrete diction
-
create imaginable images
car, cat, etc. - periodic sentences
- saves most important idea for end
- loose sentence
- point is revealed at start
- coordinate clauses
- clauses of equal rank and structure
- coordinate conjunctions
-
join coordinate clauses
and, but - complex sentence
- subordinate and main clause
- compound sentence
- made up of two or more coordinate clauses
- restrictive clause
- contains essential info
- nonrestrictive clause
-
parenthetical or appostive
contains unessential info - relative clause
- restrictive or nonrestrictive
- compund predicate
-
has two or more equal verbs
I came and left.