ENG - AP English Language and Composition
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Allegory - ✅✅The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically
to represent and abstraction in addition to literal meaning.
Antecedent - ✅✅Word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.
Antithesis - ✅✅Opposition or contrast of ideas
Aphorism - ✅✅Terse statement of unknown authorship which expresses a
general truth or moral
Apostrophe - ✅✅A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or
imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Colloquial/Colloquialism - ✅✅The use of slang or informalities in speech or
writing.
Conceit - ✅✅A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended
metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar
objects.
Euphemism - ✅✅More agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally
unpleasant word or concept.
, Homily - ✅✅This term literally means "sermon," but more informally, it can
include any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice.
Invective - ✅✅An emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using
strong, abusive language.
Metonymy - ✅✅a figure of speech in which the name of one object is
substituted for that of another closely associated with it.
Anaphora - ✅✅A sub-type of parallelism, when the exact repetition of words
or phrases at the beginning of successive lines
or sentences.
Pedantic - ✅✅An adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that
is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish
Prose - ✅✅one of the major divisions of genre, prose refers to fiction and
nonfiction, including all its forms.
Semantics - ✅✅The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words,
their historical and psychological development, their connotations, and their
relation to one another.
Syllogism - ✅✅From the Greek for "reckoning together," this is a deductive
system of formal logic that presents two premises that inevitably lead to a sound
conclusion.
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Allegory - ✅✅The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically
to represent and abstraction in addition to literal meaning.
Antecedent - ✅✅Word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.
Antithesis - ✅✅Opposition or contrast of ideas
Aphorism - ✅✅Terse statement of unknown authorship which expresses a
general truth or moral
Apostrophe - ✅✅A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or
imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Colloquial/Colloquialism - ✅✅The use of slang or informalities in speech or
writing.
Conceit - ✅✅A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended
metaphor or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar
objects.
Euphemism - ✅✅More agreeable or less offensive substitute for a generally
unpleasant word or concept.
, Homily - ✅✅This term literally means "sermon," but more informally, it can
include any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual advice.
Invective - ✅✅An emotionally violent, verbal denunciation or attack using
strong, abusive language.
Metonymy - ✅✅a figure of speech in which the name of one object is
substituted for that of another closely associated with it.
Anaphora - ✅✅A sub-type of parallelism, when the exact repetition of words
or phrases at the beginning of successive lines
or sentences.
Pedantic - ✅✅An adjective that describes words, phrases, or general tone that
is overly scholarly, academic, or bookish
Prose - ✅✅one of the major divisions of genre, prose refers to fiction and
nonfiction, including all its forms.
Semantics - ✅✅The branch of linguistics that studies the meaning of words,
their historical and psychological development, their connotations, and their
relation to one another.
Syllogism - ✅✅From the Greek for "reckoning together," this is a deductive
system of formal logic that presents two premises that inevitably lead to a sound
conclusion.
