AP Lang. vocab. 3

This term constitutes any words or phrases that stand out because they are constructed using tropes or schemes that sharpen, clarify, and make writing more expressive.

• Genre

• Exordium

• Ellipsis

• Figurative language

This includes the sights, sounds, tastes, smells, and tactile feelings that words or phrases in a text evoke.

• Figurative language

• Epistrophe

• Imagery

• Irony

The placing of one item next to another one in order to understand both items better.

• Juxtaposition

• Irony

• Inductive Argument

• Antithesis

This is a figure, specifically a trope, in which the writer deliberately overstates or exaggerates.

• Epistrophe

• Juxtaposition

• Litotes

• Hyperbole

The introduction or beginning of any text that draws the reader into its subject matter and central argument.

• Exordium

• Imagery

• Inductive Argument

• Litotes

The diction and syntax used by a specific professional or academic group.

• Epistrophe

• Genre

• Juxtaposition

• Jargon

A figure, specifically a trope, in which the writer deliberately understates the point.

• Jargon

• Litotes

• Imagery

• Logos

The type, form, or shape of a text; for example journals, editorials, letters, essays, and poems.

• Connotation

• Arrangement

• Genre

• Juxtaposition

___________________ is an argument that begins with specific points or details and then develops a general thesis based on them.

__________________ is a figure, specifically a trope, in which words are meant to contradict their literal meaning.