English 12 Ap Words 91-120

Front 1

hasty generalization

Back 1

drawing a premature conclusion on the basis of insufficent evidence, caes, etc.

Front 2

heroic couplet

Back 2

two consecutive lines of poetry written in iambic pantameter.

Front 3

hexameter

Back 3

six feet/lines of poetry.

Front 4

homily

Back 4

generally means a sermon; can include any serious talk, speech, or lecture invovling moral or spiritual advice.

Front 5

hyperbole

Back 5

exaggeration to create an effect, to accomplish a particular purpose, or to reveal an attitude.

Front 6

iamb

Back 6

a meterical foot that has one unaccented syllable followed by one accented syllable.

Front 7

imagery

Back 7

diction describing the five senses to convey tone, purpose, or effect.

Front 8

imperative

Back 8

mood of the verb that expresses an order or a command.

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indiciative

Back 9

mood of the verb that states a fact or asks a question.

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induction

Back 10

the process of reasoning from a part to a whole or from the particular to the general.

Front 11

inference

Back 11

a reasonable conclusion drawn from the information presented.

Front 12

infinitive

Back 12

to+verb form used as a noun, adjective, or adverb.

Front 13

internal rhyme

Back 13

rhyme that occurs within a line of poetry.

Front 14

invective

Back 14

an emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using strong, abusive language; a technique of satire.

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inverted order

Back 15

reversing the usual subject-verb-complement order, sometimes used to conform to rhyme and rhythm patterns in poetry or for effect in prose.

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irony

Back 16

the discrepancy between what is said and what is meant (verbal irony), between what happens and what is expected to happen (situational irony), or between what a character in a play thinks and that the audience knows to be true (dramatic irony).

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juxtaposition

Back 17

placing two persons, places, or things next to each other to create an effect, reveal an attitude, or accomplish a purpose.

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litotes

Back 18

understatement in which the negative of an antonym is used to achieve emphasis and intensity.

Front 19

local color

Back 19

detailed representation in fiction of the dialect, dress, climate, manners, customs, etc. of a particular area.

Front 20

logical fallacies

Back 20

errors in reasoning which render an argument invalid. These include ad hominen, ad populum, begging the question, circular reasoning, either/or reasoning, hasty generalization, non sequitur, pedantry, post hoc, ergo propter hoc, and propaganda.

Front 21

logos

Back 21

logical appeal of argumentation; may include inductive/deductive reasoning, syllogisms.

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loose sentence

Back 22

a sentence in which the main idea (independent clause) comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units such as phrases and clauses; a work containing many losse sentences often has an informal, relaxed, and conversational tone. (contrast with a periodic sentence)

He went into town to buy groceries, to visit his friends, and to go to the bookstore.

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lyrical poetry

Back 23

poetry which expresses an emotion.

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metaphor

Back 24

direct or implied comparison of two unlike things.

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meter

Back 25

the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.

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metonymy

Back 26

a figure of speech in which a term naming an object is sustained for another word with which it is closely associated.

tongue is used to describe a language or dialect.

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mock heroic

Back 27

a type of satire using an elevated style out of proportion to its trivial subject.

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mood

Back 28

the overall atmosphere in a work.

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motif

Back 29

recurring image

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myth

Back 30

traditional tale of unknown authorship involving gods and goddesses or other supernatural beings, often explaining some aspect of nature.