Week 1 AP Lang Terms

Ancedote

a short and amusing or interesting story about an incident, event or person

Assonance

which involves the repetition of similar vowel sounds within a word, sentence, or phrase

Enumeration

A rhetorical term for the listing of details a type of amplification and division

Colloquialism

A word or phrase that is not formal or literacy, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation

Consonance

Refers to repetitive sounds produced by END or MIDDLE consonants within a sentence or phrase. This repetition often takes place in quick succession such as in pitter, patter.

Active Voice

It is an essentially any sentence with an action verb

Ad Hominem

A general category of fallacies in which a claim or argument is rejected on the basis of some irrelevant fact about the author or of the person.

Alliteration

Repetition of an initial sound in close proximity

Allusion

A reference to a (past, present, or future) event, person, or place

Anadiplosis

A repetition technique; a word or phrase from the previous line, clause, or sentence at the beginning of the next