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Character -Euphemism
AP Lang Vocab #3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Character | A personage in a narrative |
| Claim | The ultimate conclusion, generalization, or point |
| Climax | The arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses; most suspenseful part of a story |
| Climbing the Ladder | A term referring to the scheme of climax; leading up to the climax |
| Cloze Test | Reading ability that requires a person to fill in missing words in a text |
| Common Topic | One of the perspectives, derived from Aristotle's topics, and used to generate material |
| Complex Sentence | A sentence with one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses. |
| Compound-Complex Sentence | A sentence with two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses |
| Compound Sentence | A sentence with two or more independent clauses |
| Compound Subject | The construction in which two or more nouns, noun phrases, or noun clauses constitute the grammatical subject of a clause |
| Conclusion | The ultimate point or generalization |
| Confirmation | The part of speech in which the speaker or writer would offer proof or demonstration of the central idea |
| Conflict | The struggle of characters with themselves, with others, or with the world around them |
| Connotation | The implied meaning of a word, not the "dictionary meaning" |
| Consulting | Seeking help for one's writing from a reader |
| Context | The convergence of time, place, audience, and motivating factors in a piece of writing or a speech |
| Contraction | The combination of two words into one by the omission of an apostrophe |
| Contradiction | Urges the writer to invent an example to counter the main idea |
| Contraries | Urges the writer to invent an example to counter the main idea or argument |
| Data | Facts, statistics, and examples that a speaker/writer offers in support of a claim, generalization, or conclusion |
| Deductive Reasoning | Reasoning that begins with a general principle and concludes with a specific instance |
| Delivery | The presentation and format of a composition |
| Denotation | The "dictionary definition" of a word |
| Descriptive Writing | Writing that relies on sensory images to characterize a person or place |
| Dialect | The describable pattern of language, grammar, and vocab |
| Dialogue | Conversation between and among characters |
| Diction | Word choice, style |
| Double Entendre | The double meanings of a group of words that the speaker or writer has purposely left ambiguous |
| Drafting | The process a writer gets something written on paper so they can organize ideas |
| Dramatic Monologue | A type of poem, in which the speaker is delivering a monologue to an audience |
| Dramatic Narration | A narrative in which the reader does not have access to the unspoken thoughts of any character |
| Dramatistic Pentad | The invention strategy: invites a speaker to create identities for the act, agent, agency, scene, or purpose |
| Dynamic Character | One who changes during the course of the narrative |
| Editing | The final observation before delivery by writer or speaker of a composition |
| Effect | Impact a text has on a reader or listener |
| Efferent Reading | Reading to garner information from a text |
| Ellipsis | The omission of words, the meaning of which is provided by the overall content of a passage |
| Enthymeme | Logical reasoning with one premise left unstated |
| Epistrophe | The repetition of a group of words at the end of successive clauses |
| Epithet | A word or phrase adding a characteristic to a person's name |
| Ethos | The appeal of a text to the credibility and character of the speaker, writer, or narrative |
| Euphemism | An indirect expression of unpleasant information in such a way as to lessen its impact |
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