AP English Vocab #1
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- consonance
- the repetition of two or more consonants with a change in the intervening vowels, such as pitter-patter, splish-splash, etc.
- claim
- in argumentation, an assertion of something as fact
- assonance
- the repetition of identical or simiar vowel sounds, usually in successive or proximate words.
- dialect
- the language and speech idiosyncrasies of a specific area, region, or group.
- attitude
- the sense expressed by the tone of voice or the mood of a piece of writing; the author's feelings toward his or her subject, characters, events, or theme. It might even be his or her feelings for the reader.
- connotation
- the implied, suggested, or underlying meaning of a word or phrase
- allusion
- a literary, historical, religious, or mythological reference.
- antithesis
- the juxtapostition of sharply contrastin ideas in balanced or paralled words, phrases grammatical structure, or ideas.
- canon
- that which has bee accepted as authentic
- diction
- the specific word choice an author uses to persuade or convey tone, purpose, or effect.
- chasmus
- a figure of speech and generally a syntactical structure wherein the order of the terms in the first half of a parallel clause is reversed in the second.
- asyndeton
- a syntactical structure in which conjunctions are omitted in a series, usually producing more rapid prose.
- colloquial
- a term identifying the diction of the common, ordinary folks, especially in a specific region or area.
- begging the question
- an argumentative ploy wher the arguer sidesteps the question or the conflict, evades or ignores the real question
- appeals to ... authority, emothion, or logic
- rhetorical arguments in which the speaker claims to be an authority or expert in a field, or attempts to play upon the emotions, or appeals to the use or reason.
- conceit
- a comparison of two unlikely things that is drawn out within a piece of literature, in particular an extended metaphor within a poem. However, conceits can also be used in non-fiction an prose.
- didactic
- writing or speech is didactic when it has an instructive purpose or a lesson. It is often associated with a dry, pompous presentation, regardless of its innate value to the reader.
- convention
- an accepted manner, model, or tradition
- denotation
- the opposite of connotation
- deductive reasoning (deduction)
- the method of argument in which specific statements and conclusions are drawn from general principals:movement from the general to the specific, in contrast to inductive reasoning (induction).
- anaphora
- the regular repetition of the same words or phrases at the beginning of successive phrases of clauses.
- critique
- an assessment or analysis of something, such as a passage of writing, for the purpose of determining what it is, what its limitations are, and how it conforms to the standard of the genre.
- aphorism
- a concise statement designed to make a point or illustrate a commonly held belief.
- apostrophe
- an address or invocation to something inanimate
- comparison and contrast
- a mode of dicourse in which two or more things are compared, contrasted, or both.