AP Concepts #1

Analogy

A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them.

Aphorism

A statement that expresses a truth in a witty way

Anaphora

the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

Irony

A contrast between expectation and reality

Metaphor

Comparing things without the use of like or as

Simile

Comparison with like or as

Cumulative sentence

A type of parallel sentence that builds detail by having a indpenedent clause followed by informational dependent.

Interupted Sentence

When a clause is squeezed into a sentence

Periodic sentence

A sentence that delays and untimate conculsion over a series of clauses

Balanced Sentence

A sentence made up or parts with equal length and structure, used to compare via showing equality

Connotation

The street meaning behind the word

Epithet

A title given to someone (Recognizable)

parallelism

A similar structure of words and clauses

alliteration

Repetition of initial sounds

Syllogism

A deductive arguement that consecuitve true premisies followed by a found truth

Allusion

A reference to another work of literature, person, or event

Epigram

A very short passage with a witty construction that can be used universally

Hyperbole

exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

paradox

A self controdictary sentence that revels truth upon inspection

Deduction

A type or reasoning that relies on established truths

Induction

General truths or observations used to logically jump to another truth

Apostrophe

A firgure of speach that adresses a non-existant or present person

inversion

when an author changes the usual order of words

onomonepia

Word that sounds like the sound

Denotation

The dictonary definition of the word

Syntax

Word order

Tone

An authors attitude towards a subject

Diction

word choiice as an element of style

Understatement

When an author assigns less significance to an event or thing than it deserves

Euphanism

A less offensive substiute for a word

Ironional understatement

Bring attention to something by understating it