AP Lang Vocabulary Week 3

satire

ridicule of folly or to expose to correct an incident, the rules of united airlines fight or flight club

diction

Speaker's choice of words

syntax

The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language; usually the speaker decides

tone vs mood

Tone: the feeling the speaker wants to invoke on the audience from his text
Mood: feeling created by the speaker's work

metaphor vs simile

they both state comparison between two objects, but a simile uses like or as and a metaphor uses neither

personification

a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human emotions and feelings

hyperbole

a figure of speech that uses deliberate exaggeration to create a heightened effect

Parrallelism

repetition of grammatical structure to keep a fluid read for the audience

juxtaposition

placing elements together to represent a comparison or contrast

antithesis

the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, most commonly in parallel structure

compound sentence

a sentence with more than one subject or predicate.

complex sentence

a sentence containing a subordinate clause or clauses.

periodic sentence

a complex sentence in which the main clause comes last and is preceded by the subordinate clause

cumulative sentence

a sentence that completes its main clause/thought at the beginning and then adds to it

imperative sentence

a sentence used for commands or requests