Ap Language Terms

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trope

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artful diction; a metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole,

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diction

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choice of words, good word choice.

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syntax

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arrangement of words

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scheme

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artful syntax; parallelisms, juxtapositions, and antithesis

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antithesis

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opposition, contrast, opposite,

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periodic sentences

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moving towards something important at the end

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cumulative

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adding details that support an important idea at the beginning of the sentence.

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annotation

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notes added to a text, reading with pen/pencil in hand

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thesis state

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an explanation of the topic or purpose of a research paper

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oxymoron

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contradiction, "cruel kindness", "meager abundance"

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dialect journal

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double entry notebook, columns to represent conversation between the text and the reader,

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zeugma

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use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each but in a different way,

as in to wage war and peace or On his fishing trip, he caught three trout and a cold.

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graphic organizer

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chunk and summarize

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subordinate clause

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a clause that modifies the principal clause or some part of it or that serves a noun function in the principal clause,

as when she arrived in the sentence I was there when she arrived or that she has arrived in the sentence I doubt that she has arrived.

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hortative sentence

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calls to action

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anaphora

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the repetition of a word or phrase at the begininning sucessive phrases, clauses, or lines.

not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need- not as a call to battle, though embattled we are

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antimetabole

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repitition of words in reverse order

ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country

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antithesis

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opposition or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or parallel construction

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asyndeton

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omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses or words.

we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty.

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Subordinate Clause

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Dependent clause, a clause/sentence/part of a sentence that cannot stand alone.

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complex sentences

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sentences that contain a subordinate clause