AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE VOCABULARY questions
and answers with solutions 2025
Ad Hominem Argument - ANSWER Attacks the opposing speaker or another person rather than
addressing the issues at hand
Allegory - ANSWER Fictional work in which the characters represent ideas or concepts
Alliteration - ANSWER The repetition of consonant sounds, usually at the beginning of words
Allusion - ANSWER A reference, usually oblique or faint, to another thing, idea, or person
Ambiguity - ANSWER Uncertain or indefinite; subject to more than one interpretation
Analogy - ANSWER The correspondence or resemblance between two things that are essentially
different
Anecdote - ANSWER A short story used to illustrate a point the author is making
Antecedent - ANSWER Every pronoun refers back to a previous noun or pronoun
Antithesis - ANSWER An opposition or contrast of ideas that is often expressed in balanced phrases or
clauses
Apostrophe - ANSWER A figure of speech in which an absent person or personified object is addressed
by a speaker
Appositive - ANSWER A word or phrase that follow a noun or pronoun for emphasis or clarity
Assonance - ANSWER A type of internal rhyming in which vowel souds are repeated
, Asyndeton - ANSWER When the conjunctions (such as "and" or "but") that would normally connect a
string of words, phrases, or clauses are omitted from a sentence
Atmosphere - ANSWER The emotional feeling -or mood- of a place, scene, or event
Attitude - ANSWER The feelings of a particular speaker or piece of writing toward a subject, person, or
idea
Contrast - ANSWER Oppositions
Colloquial Language - ANSWER Slang or common language that is informal
Connotative - ANSWER The interpretive level of a word based on associated images rather than the
literal meaning
Deductive Argument - ANSWER The process of moving from a general rule to a specific example
Diction - ANSWER An author's choice of words
Didactic - ANSWER Writing which has the purpose of teaching or instructing
Elegy - ANSWER A work that expresses sorrow
Ellipses - ANSWER Indicated by a series of three periods; shows that words have been omitted
Ethos - ANSWER Refers to generally ethics, or values
Euphemism - ANSWER A mild or pleasant sounding expression that substitutes for a harsh, indelicate, or
simply less pleasant idea
and answers with solutions 2025
Ad Hominem Argument - ANSWER Attacks the opposing speaker or another person rather than
addressing the issues at hand
Allegory - ANSWER Fictional work in which the characters represent ideas or concepts
Alliteration - ANSWER The repetition of consonant sounds, usually at the beginning of words
Allusion - ANSWER A reference, usually oblique or faint, to another thing, idea, or person
Ambiguity - ANSWER Uncertain or indefinite; subject to more than one interpretation
Analogy - ANSWER The correspondence or resemblance between two things that are essentially
different
Anecdote - ANSWER A short story used to illustrate a point the author is making
Antecedent - ANSWER Every pronoun refers back to a previous noun or pronoun
Antithesis - ANSWER An opposition or contrast of ideas that is often expressed in balanced phrases or
clauses
Apostrophe - ANSWER A figure of speech in which an absent person or personified object is addressed
by a speaker
Appositive - ANSWER A word or phrase that follow a noun or pronoun for emphasis or clarity
Assonance - ANSWER A type of internal rhyming in which vowel souds are repeated
, Asyndeton - ANSWER When the conjunctions (such as "and" or "but") that would normally connect a
string of words, phrases, or clauses are omitted from a sentence
Atmosphere - ANSWER The emotional feeling -or mood- of a place, scene, or event
Attitude - ANSWER The feelings of a particular speaker or piece of writing toward a subject, person, or
idea
Contrast - ANSWER Oppositions
Colloquial Language - ANSWER Slang or common language that is informal
Connotative - ANSWER The interpretive level of a word based on associated images rather than the
literal meaning
Deductive Argument - ANSWER The process of moving from a general rule to a specific example
Diction - ANSWER An author's choice of words
Didactic - ANSWER Writing which has the purpose of teaching or instructing
Elegy - ANSWER A work that expresses sorrow
Ellipses - ANSWER Indicated by a series of three periods; shows that words have been omitted
Ethos - ANSWER Refers to generally ethics, or values
Euphemism - ANSWER A mild or pleasant sounding expression that substitutes for a harsh, indelicate, or
simply less pleasant idea
