AP English Language and Composition Terms UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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AP English Language And Composition
AP English Language and Composition
Terms UPDATED Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Ad hominem - Correct Answer- A faulty argument based on the failings of an adversary
rather than on the merits of the case; a logical fallacy that involves a personal attack
Allegory - Correct Answer- The d...
AP English Language and Composition
Terms UPDATED Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Ad hominem - Correct Answer- A faulty argument based on the failings of an adversary
rather than on the merits of the case; a logical fallacy that involves a personal attack
Allegory - Correct Answer- The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically
to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning.
Alliteration - Correct Answer- The repetition of consonant sounds, especially initial
consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words
Allusion - Correct Answer- A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably
commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art.
Ambiguity - Correct Answer- The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a
word, phrase, sentence, or passage
Amplification - Correct Answer- Involves repeating a word or expression while adding more
detail to it, in order to emphasize what might otherwise be passed over
Analogy - Correct Answer- A similarity or comparison between two different things or the
relationship between them.
Anadiplosis - Correct Answer- The rhetorical repetition of one or several words; specifically,
repetition of a word that ends one clause at the beginning of the next.
Anaphora - Correct Answer- The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive
phrases, clauses or lines
Antecedent - Correct Answer- The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun
,Antistrophe - Correct Answer- Repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of successive
clauses
Antithesis - Correct Answer- Opposition, or contrast of ideas or words in a balanced or
parallel construction
Aphorism - Correct Answer- A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a
general truth or a moral pinciple
Aporia - Correct Answer- Expression of doubt (often feigned) by which a speaker appears
uncertain as to what he should think, say, or do.
Aposiopesis - Correct Answer- A form of ellipse by which a speaker comes to an abrupt halt,
seemingly overcome by passions or modesty
Apostrophe - Correct Answer- A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or
imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love.
Archaism - Correct Answer- Use of an older or obsolete form
Assonance - Correct Answer- Repetition of the same vowel sound in words close to each
other
Asyndeton - Correct Answer- Lack of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or
words
Atmosphere - Correct Answer- The emotional nod created by the entirety of a literary work,
established partly by the setting and partly by the author's choice of objects that are
described.
Bandwagon - Correct Answer- A logical fallacy based on the assumption that the opinion of
the majority is always valid: everyone believes it, so you should too
, Caricature - Correct Answer- A verbal description, the purpose of which is to exaggerate or
distort, for comic effect, a person's distinctive physical features or other characteristics.
Catachresis - Correct Answer- The misuse or strained use of words, as in a mixed metaphor,
occurring either in error or for rhetorical effect.
Chiasmus - Correct Answer- Also called "reverse parallelism," since the second part of a
grammatical construction is balanced or paralleled by the first part, only in reverse order
Circular Argument - Correct Answer- An argument that commits the logical fallacy of
assuming what it is attempting to prove
Clause - Correct Answer- A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb
Colloquial - Correct Answer- The use of slang or informalities in speech or writing
Commoratio - Correct Answer- The repetition of a point made several times using different
words
Complementizer - Correct Answer- A word (such as that or if) used to introduce a dependent
clause
Compounding - Correct Answer- In linguistics, the combining of two or more words to create
a new word
Conceit - Correct Answer- A fanciful expression, usually in the form of an extended metaphor
or surprising analogy between seemingly dissimilar objects
Concession - Correct Answer- An admission in an argument that opposing side has points; to
grant, allow or yield to a point.
Conjunction - Correct Answer- The part of speech that serves to connect words, phrases, or
clauses
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