AP Lang & Comp List #1 9/15

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Words to know and love for AP Lang: List #1
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  1. alliteration
    use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
  2. allusion
    passing reference or indirect mention
  3. analogy
    drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity
  4. anaphora
    repetition of a word or phrase to begin successive clauses
  5. anecdote
    short account of an incident
  6. annotation
    the act of adding notes
  7. antecedent
    a preceding occurrence or cause or event
  8. antecedently
    at an earlier time or formerly
  9. antithesis
    exact opposite
  10. aphorism
    a short pithy instructive saying
  11. pithy
    concise and full of meaning
  12. appositive
    relating to or being in apposition
  13. archaic
    so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
  14. archaicism
    the use of an archaic expression
  15. argument
    a dispute where there is strong disagreement
  16. argumentative
    given to or characterized by a tendency to dispute
  17. argumentation
    the methodical process of logical reasoning
  18. argumentatively
    in a disputatious manner
  19. Aristotle
    one of the greatest of the ancient Athenian philosophers
  20. Aristotelian
    of or relating to Aristotle or his philosophy
  21. Aristotelianism
    (philosophy) the philosophy of Aristotle that deals with logic and metaphysics and ethics and poetics and politics and natural science
  22. assertion
    a declaration that is made emphatically
  23. assumption
    the act of taking something for granted
  24. asyndeton
    omission of conjunctions where they would normally be used
  25. attitude
    a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings
  26. audience
    a gathering of spectators or listeners at a performance
  27. authority
    the power or right to give orders or make decisions
  28. bias
    a partiality preventing objective consideration of an issue
  29. biased
    favoring one person or side over another
  30. cite
    make reference to
  31. claim
    assert or affirm strongly
  32. colloquial
    characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation
  33. colloquialism
    an expression that seeks to imitate informal speech
  34. common ground
    a basis agreed to by all parties for reaching a mutual understanding
  35. complex sentence
    a sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause
  36. concession
    the act of yielding
  37. connotation
    an idea that is implied or suggested
  38. context
    the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation
  39. contextual
    relating to the set of facts surrounding a situation
  40. contextual definition
    a definition in which the term is used by embedding it in a larger expression containing its explanation
  41. counterargument
    an opinion offered in opposition to another position
  42. declarative sentence
    a sentence (in the indicative mood) that makes a declaration
  43. simple sentence
    a sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses
  44. interrogative sentence
    a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply
  45. declaratory sentence
    a sentence (in the indicative mood) that makes a declaration
  46. loose sentence
    a complex sentence in which the main clause comes first and the subordinate clause follows
  47. deduction
    the act of removing a part from the whole
  48. denotation
    the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression
  49. dialectical
    relating to reasoning by the exchange of logical arguments
  50. diction
    the manner in which something is expressed in words
  51. documentation
    confirmation that some fact or statement is true
  52. elegiac
    resembling or characteristic of a lament for the dead
  53. epigram
    a witty saying
  54. epigrammatic
    terse and witty
  55. ethos
    the distinctive spirit of a culture or an era
  56. explication
    a detailed discussion of the meaning of something
  57. explication de texte
    a method of literary criticism that analyzes details of a text in order to reveal its structure and meaning
  58. fact
    a piece of information about events that have occurred
  59. figurative
    not literal
  60. figure of speech
    language used in a nonliteral sense
Created on Thu Sep 24 12:11:32 EDT 2015

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