AP Language Pretest - Terms and Devices

Mrs. S. Ehrlich (United States of America)
AP Language, pretest, just to see where we all are ;-)
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  1. purpose
    what something is used for
  2. appeal
    earnest or urgent request
  3. analysis
    abstract separation of something into its various parts
  4. theme
    the subject matter of a conversation or discussion
  5. abstract
    existing only in the mind
  6. irony
    incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs
  7. satire
    witty language used to convey insults or scorn
  8. concrete
    capable of being perceived by the senses
  9. allusion
    passing reference or indirect mention
  10. transition
    the act of passing from one state or place to the next
  11. analogy
    drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity
  12. rhetoric
    study of the technique for using language effectively
  13. repetition
    the continued use of the same word or word pattern
  14. integrity
    moral soundness
  15. analyze
    break down into components or essential features
  16. antagonist
    someone who offers opposition
  17. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  18. coherent
    marked by an orderly and consistent relation of parts
  19. paradox
    a statement that contradicts itself
  20. allegory
    a short moral story
  21. parable
    a short moral story
  22. fallacy
    a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning
  23. antecedent
    a preceding occurrence or cause or event
  24. parody
    a composition that imitates or misrepresents a style
  25. genre
    a kind of literary or artistic work
  26. stereotype
    a conventional or formulaic conception or image
  27. symbolism
    the practice of investing things with arbitrary meaning
  28. diction
    the manner in which something is expressed in words
  29. invective
    abusive language used to express blame or censure
  30. antithesis
    exact opposite
  31. personification
    attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas
  32. aphorism
    a short pithy instructive saying
  33. plagiarism
    taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own
  34. syntax
    the study of the rules for forming admissible sentences
  35. protagonist
    the principal character in a work of fiction
  36. motif
    a recurrent element in a literary or artistic work
  37. hyperbole
    extravagant exaggeration
  38. juxtaposition
    the act of positioning close together
    In literature, this is used to show the difference in two elements for a rhetorical purpose.
  39. pithy
    concise and full of meaning
  40. euphemism
    an inoffensive expression substituted for an offensive one
  41. parallelism
    similarity by virtue of corresponding
  42. redundancy
    the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded
  43. connotation
    an idea that is implied or suggested
  44. ellipsis
    a mark indicating that words have been omitted
  45. understatement
    something said in a restrained way for ironic contrast
  46. euphony
    any pleasing and harmonious sounds
  47. foreshadowing
    the act of providing vague advance indications
  48. flashback
    a transition in a story to an earlier event or scene
  49. cacophony
    loud confusing disagreeable sounds
  50. tautology
    useless repetition
  51. hyperbolic
    enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness
  52. denotation
    the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression
  53. oxymoron
    conjoined contradictory terms
  54. onomatopoeia
    using words that imitate the sound they denote
  55. mood
    verb inflections that express how the action is conceived
Created on Tue Aug 13 22:14:33 EDT 2013 (updated Fri Aug 16 10:58:29 EDT 2013)

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