AP Lang
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Terms
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- parable
- story
- pun
- play on words
- irony
- expression through words or events to convey a reality different from and opposite to appearance or expectation
- reductio ad absurdum
- establish a contention by deriving an absurdity from its denial
- pedantic
- ostentatious in one's learning.
- colloquial
- easy, informal style of writing or speaking
- polysyndeton
- excessive use of conjunctions (and, or, but...)
- synecdoche
- part stands for whole
- understatement
- opposite of hyperbole
- tone
- The writer's attitude toward his readers and his subject; his mood or moral view. A writer can be formal, informal, playful, ironic, and especially, optimistic or pessimistic
- epigraph
- 'the sun also rises' the title tells a bit about what will happen
- anacoluthon
- grammatical interruption, or lack of implied sequence
- invective
- Speech or writing that abuses, denounces, or attacks.
- induction
- The logical assumption or process of assuming that what is true for a single specimen or example is also true for other specimens or examples of the same type.
- apostrophe
- a sudden turn from the general audience to address a specific group or person or personified abstraction absent or present
- anadiplosis
- repitition of the last word of a line or clause to begin the next
- connotation
- implied meaning
- denotation
- definition
- syllepsis
- using a single word in such a way that it will be syntactically related to two other words in a sentence
- synesis
- a grammatical construction in which a word takes the gender or number not of the word with which it should regularly agree, but of some other word implied in that word.
- metonomy
- using a vaguely suggestive physical object to embody a general idea--"the crown" for royalty
- enthymeme
- truncated syllogism
- parody
- humorous, satirical, or burlesque imitation of a person, event, or serious work of literature designed to ridicule in nonsensical fashion or to criticize by clever duplication.
- deduction
- determines the truth about specific examples using a large general rule
- antithesis
- contrast of words by means of parallel arrangement of words
- ellipsis
- put ... to omit some parts of a quote
- litote
- aka meiosis -deny the opposite instead of "she's pretty" say, "she's not ugly"
- paradox
- seems contradictory but is true
- zeugma
- same as syllepsis
- analogy
- the relationship of similarity between two or more entities or a partial similarity on which a comparison is based.
- euphemism
- substituting a mild, or less negative word for a harsh one- like "passed away"
- metaphor
- implied comparison achieved through a figurative use of words; the word is used not in its literal sense, but in one analogous to it
- asyndeton
- lack of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words
- hyperbole
- exaggeration
- chiasmus
- two corresponding pairs arranged not in parallels (a-b-a-b) but in inverted order (a-b-b-a); from shape of the Greek letter chi (X)
- motif
- A recurrent image, word, phrase, represented object or action that tends to unify the literary work or that may be elaborated into a more general theme.
- syllogism
- a deductive argument consisting of a major and minor premise and conclusion- every virtue is laudable, kindness is a virtue, therefore kindness is laudable
- anaphora
- 1st word is repeated in clause, phrase, etc