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AP Eng. Tone Words
Tone Words for AP English
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Satiric | Exposing human folly to human ridicule |
| Whimsical | Determined by chance of impulse rather than by reason |
| Lachrymose | Showing sorrow |
| Sententious | Concise and full of meaning |
| Informative | Tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance; providing or conveying information |
| Somber | Grave or gloomy in character; lacking in brightness or color, dull |
| Urgent | Compelling immediate action |
| Mock-Heroic | A satirical imitation of heroic verse |
| Objective | Based on observable phenomena; presented factually |
| Subjective | Taking place in a person's mind rather then the external world; personal |
| Diffident | Showing modest reserve; lacking self-confidence |
| Supercilious | Expressive of contempt |
| Ironic | Humorously sarcastic or mocking |
| Didactic | Inclined to teach or moralize excessively |
| Petty | Small importance; trivial |
| Callow | Lacking experience of life |
| Elegiac | Expressing sorrow often for something past |
| Restrained | Cool and formal in manner; not showy or obtrusive; prudent |
| Disdainful | Expressing extreme contempt |
| Pedantic | Marked by narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects |
| Indignant | Angered at something unjust or wrong |
| Bantering | Cleverly amusing in tone |
| Flippant | Showing inappropriate levity; frivolously disrespectful, shallow, lacking in seriousness |
| Condescending | Lowering oneself; dealing with people in a patronizingly superior manner |
| Detached | Absence of emotional involvement and an aloof, impersonal objectivity |
| Alliteration | Beginning several consecutive or neighboring words with the same sound |
| Allusion | A Reference to a mythological, literary, or historical person, place, or thing |
| Antithesis | A direct juxtaposition of structurally parallel words, phrases, or clauses for the purpose of contrast |
| Apostrophe | Form of personification in which the absent or dead are spoken to as if present and the inanimate, as if animate |
| Consonance | The repetition of a consonant sound within a series of words to produce a harmonious effect |
| Details | The facts revealed by the author or speaker that support the attitude or tone in a piece of poetry or prose |
| Diction | Word choice intended to convey a certain effect |
| Figures of Speech | Used to produce images in a reader's mind and to express ideas in fresh,vivid, and imaginative ways. |
| Flashback | A scene that interrupts the action of a work to show a previous event |
| Foreshadowing | The use of hints or clues in a narrative to suggest future action |
| Hyperbole | A deliberate, extravagant, and often outrageous exaggeration |
| Imagery | Consists of the words or phrases a writer uses to represent persons, objects, actions, feelings, and ideas descriptively by appealing to the senses |
| Verbal Irony | Occurs when a speaker or narrator says one thing while meaning the opposite |
| Situational Irony | When a situation turns out differently from what one would normally expect-though the twist is oddly appropriate |
| Dramatic Irony | When a character or speaker says or does something that has a different meaning from what he or she thinks it means |
| Metaphor | A comparison of two unlike things not using "like" or "as" |
| Mood | The atmosphere or predominant emotion in a literary work |
| Motivation | A circumstance or set of circumstances that prompts a character to act in a certain way or that determines the outcome of a situation or work |
| Narration | The telling of a story in writing or speaking |
| Onomatopoeia | The use of words that mimic the sounds they describe |
| Oxymoron | A form of paradox that combines a pair of opposite terms into single unusual expression |
| Paradox | Occurs when elements of a statement contradict each other |
| Personification | A kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics |
| Plot | The sequence of events or actions in a short story, novel, play, or narrative |
| Point of view | The perspective from which a narrative is told |
| Prosody | The study of sound and rhythm in poetry |
| Protagonist | The central character of a drama, short story, or narrative poem. |
| Pun | Play on words that are identical or similar in sound but have sharply diverse meanings |
| Repetition | The deliberate use of any element of language more than once |
| Rhyme | The repetition of sounds in two or more words or phrases that appear close to each other in a poem. |
| Sarcasm | The use of verbal irony in which a person appears to be praising something but is actually insulting |
| Setting | The time and place in which events in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem take place |
| Shift of turn | Refers to a change or movement in a piece resulting from an epiphany, realization, or insight gained by the speaker, a character, or the reader |
| Simile | A comparison of two different things or ideas through the use of words "like" or "as". |
| Sound devices | Stylistic techniques that convey meaning through sound |
| Structure | Framework or organization of a literary selection |
| Style | The writer's characteristic manner of employing language |
| Suspense | The quality of a short story,novel, play, or narrative poem that makes the audience uncertain or tense about the outcome of events |
| Symbol | Any object, person, place, or action that has both a meaning in itself and that stands for something larger than itself, such as a quality, attitude, belief, or value. |
| Synecdoche | A form of metaphor, a part of something is used to signify the whole; also a whole can represent a part |
| Syntax | The arrangement of words and the order of grammatical elements in a sentence |
| Theme | Central message of a literary work |
| Tone | The writer's or speaker's attitude toward a subject, character, or audience, and it is conveyed through the author's choice of words and detail. |
| Understatement (meiosis, litotes) | The opposite of hyperbole. |
| Simple Sentence | Contains one independent clause |
| Compound sentence | Contains two independents clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction or by a semicolon |
| Complex sentence | Contains an independent clause and one or more subordinate clauses |
| Compound-complex sentence | Contains two or more independent clauses and one or more subordinate clauses |
| Loose or cumulative sentence | Makes complete sense if brought to a close before the actual ending |
| Periodic Sentence | Makes sense fully only when the end of the sentence is reached |
| Balanced sentence | The phrases or clauses balance each other by virtue of their likeness of structure, meaning, or length |
| Natural order of a sentence | Involves constructing a sentence so the subject comes before the predicate |
| Inverted order of a sentence | Involves constructing so the predicate comes before the subject |
| Juxtaposition | Poetic and rhetorical device in which normally unassociated ideas, words, or phrases are placed next to one another, often creating an effect of wit and surprise |
| Parallel structure | Refers to a grammatical or structural similarity between sentences or parts of sentences |
| Anaphora | The repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses |
| Asyndeton | Deliberate omission of conjunction in a series of related clauses |
| Chiasmus/Antimetabole | A sentence strategy in which the arrangement of ideas in the second clause is a reversal of the first |
| Polysyndeton | Deliberate use of many conjunctions for special emphasis |
| Stichomythia | Dialogue in which the endings and beginnings of each line echo each other, taking on a new meaning with each new line |
| Zeugma | The use of a verb that has two different meaning with objects that complement both meanings |
| Ad hominem | "To the individual" the target's person's characteristics are attacked, instead of the argument |
| Ad populum | "To the crowd" a misconception that i widespread occurrence of something is assumed to make an idea true or right |
| Begging the question | Taking for granted something that really needs proving |
| Circular reasoning | Trying to prove one idea with another idea that is too similar to the first idea; such an error logic moves backward in its attempt to move forward |
| Either/Or reasoning | The tendency to see an issue as having only two sides |
| Hasty generalization | Drawing a general and premature conclusion on the basis of only one or two cases |
| Non sequitur | "It does not follow", an inference or conclusion that does not follow established premises or evidence |
| Pedantry | A display of narrow-minded and trivial scholarship; an arbitrary adherence to rules and forms |
| Post hoc, ergo propter hoc | "After this, therefore because of this," Assuming that an incident that precedes another is the cause of the second incident |
| Propaganda | Writing or images that seek to persuade through emotional appeal rather than through logical proof |
| Card Stacking | Using only the evidence that supports a thesis and ignoring that which contradicts or weakens it |
| Slanting | Variation of card stacking, systematically uses words whose connotations suggest extreme approval or disapproval of the subject |
| Straw Man Argument | The writer or speaker attributes to the opposition actions or beliefs of which the opposition is not guilty and then attacks the opposition for those actions or beliefs |
| Shifting the burden of proof | Logic requires that he who asserts must prove |
| Scornful | Expressing extreme contempt, expressing offensive reproach |
| Colloquial | Characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation |
| Impartial | Showing lack of favoritism |
| Insipid | Lacking flavor or zest; not tasty |
| Pretentious | Intended to attract notice and impress others |
| Vibrant | Vigorous and active |
| Irreverent | Showing lack of due respect or veneration |
| Loquacious | Full of trivial conversation; talkative |
| Moralistic | Narrowly and conventionally moral |
| Laconic | Brief and to the point |
| Contemptuous | Expressing an extreme regard of someone of something as inferior or worthless |
| Jeering | Abusing vocally |
| Facetious | Cleverly amusing in tone |
| Clinical | Very objective and devoid of emotion; analytical |
| Mock-serious | Of a pretended serious look or act |
| Inflammatory | Arousing passion or strong emotion, especially anger, belligerence, or desire |
| Benevolent | Doing or producing good; intending or showing kindness |
| Burlesque | A composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way |
| Opprobrious | Expressing offensive reproach |
| Patronizing | Characteristic of those who treat others with condescension |
| Cynical | Believing the worst of human nature and motives |
| Incisive | Penetrating, clear, sharp, as in operation or expression |
| Allusive | Containing or characterized by indirect references |
| Effusive | Uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm |
| Umbrageous | Angered at something unjust or wrong; indignant |
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