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Ap English Language Vocabulary Questions & Detailed Answers
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Ap English Language Vocabulary Questions& Detailed Answers
Ad Hominem Argument - ANS Attacks the opposing speaker or another person
rather than addressing the issues at hand
Allegory - ANS Fictional work in which the characters represent ideas or concepts
Alliteration - ANS The repetition of consonant sounds, usually at the beginning of
words
Allusion - ANS A reference, usually oblique or faint, to another thing, idea, or
person
Ambiguity - ANS Uncertain or indefinite; subject to more than one interpretation
Analogy - ANS The correspondence or resemblance between two things that are
essentially different
Anecdote - ANS A short story used to illustrate a point the author is making
Antecedent - ANS Every pronoun refers back to a previous noun or pronoun
, Antithesis - ANS An opposition or contrast of ideas that is often expressed in
balanced phrases or clauses
Apostrophe - ANS A figure of speech in which an absent person or personified
object is addressed by a speaker
Appositive - ANS A word or phrase that follow a noun or pronoun for emphasis or
clarity
Assonance - ANS A type of internal rhyming in which vowel souds are repeated
Asyndeton - ANS 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 - ANS The emotional feeling -or mood- of a place, scene, or event
Attitude - ANS The feelings of a particular speaker or piece of writing toward a
subject, person, or idea
Contrast - ANS Oppositions
Colloquial Language - ANS Slang or common language that is informal
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