Ap Lang Final

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Loose sentence

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A type of sentence in which the main idea (independent clause) comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses.

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Metaphor

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A comparison of two things without using like or as.

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Metonymy

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A figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it.

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Mood

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The prevailing atmosphere or emotional aura of a work.

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Narrative

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The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.

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Onomatopoeia

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Natural sounds imitated in sounds of words.

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Oxymoron

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Grouping of apparently contradictory terms.

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Paradox

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A statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains some degree of truth or validity.

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Parallelism

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Grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity.

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Parody

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A work that closely imitates the style or content of another with the specific aim of comic effect and/ or ridicule.

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Pedantic

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An adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish.

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Periodic sentence

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A sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end.

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Personification

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Describing concepts, animals, or inanimate objects by endowing them with human attributes or emotions.

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Point of view

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The perspective from which a story is told.

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Predicate adjective

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One type of subject compliment--an adjective, group of adjectives, or adjective clause that follows a linking verb.

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Predicate nominative

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A second type of subject complement--a noun, group of nouns, or noun clause that renames the subject.

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Prose

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One of the major divisions of genre, refers to fiction and nonfiction, including all its forms.

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Repetition

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The duplication, either exact or approximate, of any element of language, such as a sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence, or grammatical pattern.

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Rhetor

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The speaker who uses elements of rhetoric effectively in oral or written test.

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Rhetorical Modes

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This flexible term describes the variety, the conventions, and the purposes of the major kinds of writing.

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Sarcasm

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Bitter, caustic language that is meant to hurt or ridicule someone or something.

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Satire

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A work that target human vices and follies or social institutions and conventions for reform or ridicule.

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Semantics

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The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words, their historical and psychological development, their connotations, and their relation to one another.

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Style

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An evaluation of the sum of the choices an author makes in blending diction, syntax, figurative language, and other literary devices.

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Subject complement

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The word (with any accompanying or clauses that follows a linking verb and complements, or completes, the subject of the sentence by either (1) renaming it or (2) describing it.

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Subordinate clause

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Word group contains both subject and verb but unlike an independent cause cannot stand alone; it does not express a complete thought.

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Syllogism

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A deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion.

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Symbol

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Anything that represents itself and stands for something else.

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Syntax

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The way an author chooses to join words into phrases, clauses, and sentences.

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Theme

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The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life

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Thesis

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The sentence or group of sentences that directly expresses the author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or position.

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Tone

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Describes the author's attitude toward his material, the audience, or both.

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Transition

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A word or phrase that links different ideas.

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Trope

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An artful variation from expected modes of expression of thoughts and ideas; a figure of speech involving a "turn" or change of sense--a use of the word in a sense other than its proper or literal one.

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Understatement

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The ironic minimizing of fact; presents something as less significant than it is.

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Undertone

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An attitude that may lie under the ostensible tone of the piece.

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Unreliable narrator

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An untrustworthy or naive commentator on events and characteristics in a story.

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Wit

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Intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights.

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Zeugma

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A trope, one word (usually a noun or main verb) governs two other words not related in meaning. "He maintained a business and his innocence."