AP ENGLISH III
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 diction | adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs, negative words, positive words, synonyms, and contrast. |
| colloquial | slang |
| informal | conversational |
| connotative | suggestive meaning |
| concrete | specific |
| euphonious | pleasant sounding |
| monosyllabic | one syllable |
| old fashioned | language that predates the 1900s |
| formal | literary |
| denotative | exact meaning |
| abstract | general or conceptional |
| cacophonious | harsh sounding |
| polysyllablic | more than one syllable |
| alliteration | repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of a word |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds inthe middle of a word |
| consonance | repetion of consonant sounds in the middle of a word |
| onomatopoeia | writing sounds as words |
| simile | a direct comparison of things using the phrase like or as |
| metaphor | a direct comparison of unlike things |
| hyperbole | a deliberate exaggeration for effect |
| understatement | represents something for less than it is |
| personification | giving human like qualities to inhuman objects |
| metonymy | word exchanged for another closely associated with it |
| pun | play on words- uses words with multiple meanings |
| symbol | something that stands for something else and itself |
| analogy | comparing two things that have at least one thing in common |
| oxymoron | use or words seemingly in contradiction to one another |
| artificial | fake |
| bombastic | pompous, ostentatious |
| cultured | cultivated, refined, finished |
| detatched | cut-off, removed, seperated |
| emotional | expressive of emotions |
| esoteric | understood by a chosen few |
| euphemistic | insincere, affected |
| exact | verbatim, precise |
| figurative | serving as an illusion |
| grotesque | hideous, deformed |
| homespun | folksy, homey, native, rustic |
| idiomatic | peculiar, vernacular |
| insipid | tame, uninteresting, dull |
| jargon | vocabulary for a profession |
| learned | educated, experienced |
| literal | apparent, word-for-word |
| moralistic | puritanical, righteous |
| obscure | unclear |
| obtuse | dull-witted, undiscerning |
| ordinary | everday, common |
| pendantic | didactic, scholastic, bookish |
| plain | clear, obvious |
| poetic | lyric, melodious, romantic |
| precise | exact, accurate, decisive |
| pretentious | pompous, gaudy, inflated |
| provincial | rural, rustic, unpolished |
| scholarly | intellectual, academic |
| sensuous | passionate, luscious |
| simple | clear, intelligible |
| slang | lingo |
| symbolic | representative, metaphorical |
| trite | common, banal, stereotyped |
| vulgar | coarse, indecent, tasteless |
| rhetorical question | food for thought, can create satire/sarcasm, poses a dilemma |
| aphorism | maxims, sayings, proverbs |
| repetition | refrain, repeated word, phrase, or sentence |
| restatement | main point said in a different way |
| allusion | refers to something universally known through mythology, religion, or historical referrence |
| paradox | a statement that sounds false yet is true |
| anecdote | brief story which illustrates a point being made |
| declarative | makes a statement |
| imperative | commands |
| interrogative | asks a question |
| simple sentence | one subject and one verb |
| loose sentence | can stop anywhere along in the sentence, details after the subject and verb |
| periodic sentence | have to read the sentence to the period for it to make sense, details before the subject and verb |
| juxtaposition | normally unassociated ideas placed together |
| parallelism | shows equal ideas, for emphasis, for rhythm |
| ellipses | trailing off, dream like state |
| dash | interruption of thought,an interjection |
| semicolon | parallel ideas, piling up of ideas; joins to sentences or complete thoughts together |
| colon | list, defintion or explanation |
| italics | emphasis, in different language |
| capitalization | for emphasis to show emotion |
| exclammation point | for emotion, for emphasis |
| telegraphic sentences | shorter than five words |
| short sentences | five words |
| medium length sentences | eighteen words |
| long and involved | thirty or more words |
| compound sentence | two independent clauses joined by a coordinate conjunction |
| complex sentences | contains an independent and dependent clause |
| compond comlex sentence | two or more prinicipal clauses and one or more subordinate clauses |
| balanced sentence | phrases or clauses balance each other out by virtue or likeness in structure |
| natural order of a sentence | subject before the predicate |
| inverted order of a sequence | predicate comes before the subject |
| split order of a sentence | divides the predicate into two parts with the subject in the middle |
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