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AP English 3 vocab 1
First Vocabulary list for APE3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Arrangement | How to place facts and examples to make them the most effective. |
| Style | (a canon of rhetoric)consists of choices a writer makes regarding words, phrases, and sentences |
| Delivery | How written text is delivered (a canon of rhetoric) |
| Context | A coming together of occasion, audience, and purpose that calls for effective speaking or writing |
| Diction | Word choice |
| Jargon | Specialized vocabulary for people of the same community/group |
| Compound Sentence | Two clauses, each of which could exist as a simple sentence if you removed the conjunction connecting them |
| Complex Sentence | Has to clauses, one independent and at least one subordinate to the main clause |
| Compound-Complex Sentence | Has the defining features of both a compound and complex sentence |
| Loose Sentence | A basic sentence with details added immediately at the end of (the) basic sentence elements |
| Periodic Sentence | A sentence in which additional details are placed in one of two positions, withe before the basic sentence elements or in the middle of them |
| Parallelism | Two or more ideas in a paragraph, a passage, or a sentence which contains two or more ideas that are fulfilling a similar function, a writer who wants to sound measured, deliberate, and balanced will express those ideas in the same grammatical form |
| The Ladder of Abstraction (general vs. specific words) | Top of the ladder = general terms, the farther down you go the more specific the words become |
| Slang | language peculiar to a particular group/an informal, non-standard vocabulary composed typically of coinages, arbitrarily changed words, and extravagant, forced, or facetious figures of speech |
| Scheme | Any artful variation from the typical arrangement of words in a sentence |
| Trope | Any artful variation from the typical or expected way a word or idea is expressed |
| Parallelism of words | Exercise physiologists argue that body-pump aerobics sessions benefit a person's heart, lungs, muscles and nerves, and joints and cartilage. |
| Parallelism of phrases | Exercise physiologists argue that body-pump aerobics sessions help a person breathe more effectively, move with less discomfort, and avoid injury. |
| Parallelism of clauses | Exercise physiologists argue that body pump aerobics is the most efficient exercise class, that body pump participants show greater gains in stamina than participants in comparable exercise programs, and that body-pump aerobics is less expensive in terms_ |
| Denotation | The explicit or direct meaning or set of meanings of a word or expression, as distinguished from the ideas or meanings associated with it or suggested by it (dictionary meaning) |
| Connotation | The implied meaning of a word/words |
| Antithesis | Parallelism is used to juxtapose words, phrases, or clauses that contrast |
| Antithesis of words | When distance runners reach the state they call the zone, they find themselves mentally engaged yet detached |
| Antithesis of phrases | When distance runners reach the state they call the zone, they find themselves mentally engaged with their physical surroundings yet detached from moment-to-moment concerns about their conditioning |
| Antithesis of clauses | When distance runners reach the state they call the zone, they find that they are empirically engaged with their physical surroundings, yet they are also completely detached from moment-to-moment concerns about their conditioning. |
| Antimetabole | Words are repeated in different grammatical forms. |
| Appositive | A construction in which two coordinating elements are set side by side, and the second explains or modifies the first. |
| Ellipsis | Any omission of words, the meaning of which is provided by the overall context of the passage |
| Asyndeton | An omission of clauses between related clauses |
| Alliteration | Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning or in the middle of two or more adjacent words |
| Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds in the stressed syllables of two or more adjacent words |
| Anaphora | Repetition of the same group of words at the beginning of successive clauses |
| Epistrophe | Repetition of the same group of words at the end of successive clauses |
| Anadiplosis | Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause |
| Climax | Repetition of words, phrases, or clauses in order of increasing number or importance |
| Metaphor | An implied comparison between two things that, on the surface, seem dissimilar but that, upon further examination, share common characteristics |
| Simile | Resembles a metaphor except with a simile, the comparison between the two things is made explicit with the use of the word like or as, rather than the meaning being implicit, as it does in metaphor |
| Synecdoche | A part of something is used to refer to the whole |
| Metonymy | An entity is referred to by one of its attributes |
| Personification | Inanimate objects are given human characteristics |
| Periphrasis | A descriptive word or phrase is used to refer to a proper name |
| Pun | A word that suggests two of its meanings or the meaning of a homonym |
| Anthimeria | One part of speech, usually a verb, substitutes for another, usually a noun |
| Onomatopoeia | Sounds of the words used are relative to their meanings |
| Hyperbole | Overstatement |
| What tropes involve overstatement/understatement? | Hyperbole, litote(s) |
| Litotes | Understatement |
| Irony | Words are meant to convey the opposite of their literal meaning |
| Oxymoron | Words that have apparently contradictory meanings are placed near each other |
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