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AP English Vocab
Chapter 3 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Exordium | The Introduction of a speech , meant to draw the audience into the speech |
| Narration | The part of the speech in which the speaker provided background information on the topic |
| Partition | The part of the speech where the speaker would divide the main topic into parts |
| Confirmation | The part of the speech in which the speaker or writer would offer proof or demonstration of the central idea |
| Refutation | The part of a speech in which the speaker would anticipate objections to the points being raised and counter them |
| Peroation | The part of the speech in which the speaker would draw together the entire arguement and include material designed to compel the auidence to think or act in a way consonant with the central argument |
| Diction | Word choice , which is viewed on scales of formality / informality , concretness/abstraction |
| Romance Languages | A language that is derived from Latin |
| Latinate Diction | Vocabulary characterized by the choice of elaborate , often complicated words derived from latin roots |
| Anglo - Saxon Diction | Word Choice characterized by simple often one or two syllable , nouns , adjectives , and adverbs |
| Figures of Rhetoric | Schemes that are variations from typical word or sentence formation and TROPES , which are varaitions from typical patterns of thought |
| Scheme | An artful variation from typical formation and arrangement of words or sentences. |
| Trope | An artful variation from expected modes of expression of thoughts and ideas |
| Dialect | The describable patterns of language - grammer and vocabulary used by a particular cultural or ethnic population |
| Slang | Informal language , often considered inappropriate for formal occasions and text |
| Denotation | The dictionary defination of a word , in contrast to its connatation or implied meaning |
| Connotation | The implied meaning of a word , in contrast to its directly expressed '' dictionary meaning |
| Parallelism | A set of similarly structred words phrases , or clauses that appears in asentence or paragraph |
| Antithesis | The juxtapostition of contrasting words or ideas , often in parallel structure |
| Antimetabole | The repetition of words in sucessive clauses in reverse grammatical order |
| Alliteration | The reptition of consonant sounds at the beginning or in the middle of two or more adjacent words |
| Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of two or more adjacent words |
| Anaphora | The repetition of a group of words at the beginning of successive clauses |
| Epistrophe | The repetition of a group of words at the end of successive clauses |
| Anadiplosis | The repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clauses |
| Climax | The arrangement of words, phrases or clauses in order of increasing number or importance |
| Simile | A type of comparison that uses the word like or as |
| Synecdoche | A part of something used to refer to the whole whole |
| Metonymy | An entity referred to by one of its attributes or associations |
| Personification | the giving of human characteristics to inatimate objects |
| Periphrasis | The substitution of an attributive word or phrase for a proper name , or the use of a proper name to suggest a personality characteristic |
| Pun | A play on words |
| Anthimera | One part of speech |
| Onomatopoeia | A literary device in which the sound of a word is related to its meaning |
| Overstatement | an overstatement |
| Hyperbole | An exaggeration for effect |
| Litotes | Understatments |
| Irony | Writing or speaking that implies the contrary of what is actually written or spoken |
| Oxymoron | Juxtaposed words with seemingly contradictory meanings |
| Rhetorical Question | A question posed by the speaker or writer not to seek an answer but instead to affirm or deny a point simply by asking a question about it |
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