AP Lang Vocabulary Terms

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Allegory

A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning.

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Alliteration

A device that uses the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

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Allusion

A reference to a well-known person, character, place, or event that a writer uses to deepen a reader's understanding.

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Ambiguity

A device that uses the quality of being open to more than one interpretation or meaning.

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Ambivalence

Simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings towards something or someone.

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Analogy

A comparison between two unlike things that explains their relation to teach other and emphasizes similarities.

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Anaphora

A device that uses the repetition of words or phrases at the start of sentences.

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Antithesis

A literary device that places opposite words, ideas, or qualities parallel to strengthen an argument.

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Aphorism

A device that is a concise phrase used to describe a customary truth about life.

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Assonance

A device that uses the repetition of vowel sounds, usually stressed, in words that are close together to create rhythm.

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Asyndeton

Absence of conjunctions between parts of a sentence.

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Chiasmus

A device that repeats grammar constructions or words and phrases in reverse order.

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Claim

An assertion that something is the case; a thesis that guides writing and declares the essay’s focus.

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Clause

A unit of grammatical organization; can be independent or dependent.

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Colloquialism

Not formal diction, used in familiar conversations and not meant to be taken literally.

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Connotation

The implied emotional meaning of a word beyond its literal definition.

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Denotation

The literal meaning of a word.

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Diction

Word choice that influences tone and style.

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Didactic

A work such as a novel or tale that is intended to teach, especially when teaching moral instructions as an ulterior motive.

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Euphemism

A device that uses the substitution of an unpleasant or offensive phrase for something more agreeable.

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Evidence

The available body of facts or info indicating whether a belief or claim is true.

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Hyperbole

An extravagant exaggeration used to emphasize a point.

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Idiom

An expression whose meaning is not literal, with no underlying message.

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Imagery

A device that uses vivid descriptions that engage all five senses.

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Imply

To express, suggest, or insinuate something without a direct statement.

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Infer

To deduce or conclude from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements.

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Invective

Insulting, abusive, or highly critical language that is always negative.

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Irony

the use of words to express something by saying its opposite

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Juxtaposition

a device that places two elements close together to create a contrasting effect and to compare

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Litotes (you won’t be sorry)

An understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary.

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Loose sentence

A sentence in which the independent clause comes first and continues with more modifiers and subordinate clauses.

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Metaphor

A comparison not using like or as to compare very unlike objects and suggest a relationship.

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Motif

A device with a noticeable and important recurring theme or main idea

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Onomatopoeia

A word formed from a sound something makes, sound descriptors.

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Oxymoron

A device that uses two words with opposite meanings in conjunction to express something.

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Paradox

A device that is a self-contradictory statement that provokes deep thought.

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Parallelism

A device that uses the repetition of grammatical structure in a piece of writing.

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Parody

A funny or exaggerated copy of a book, song, or movie that mimics the original for entertainment and to poke fun, not meant to be serious

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Pedantic

Giving too much attention to formal rules or small and irrelevant details as a form of diction.

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Periodic sentence

A sentence that leaves the independent clause for last to create suspense.

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Personification

A device that attributes human characteristics to something nonhuman.

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Polysyndeton

Multiple coordinating conjunctions used together to emphasize.

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Repetition

The repeating of a word or phrase two or more times.

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Sarcasm

The use of irony to mock or convey contempt.

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Satire

A type of humor that makes fun of people, society, or politics to make a point about problems.

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Syllogism

A device using two logical statements to make a sometimes wrong conclusion to argue something.

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Symbol

A thing that represents or stands for something else, primarily when a material object represents an abstract concept.

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Syntax

Sentence structure; a set of rules and principles in a language that dictates how phrases and clauses are arranged into sentences.

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Warrant

the assumption on which the claim and the evidence depend

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