AP Vocab 25-50

a poem or song composed especially as a lament for a deceased person

a sentence in which the main clause or its predicate is withheld until the end

the act or an example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one

considered harsh, blunt, or offensive

a verb, or form of a verb, which expresses the effect of the action by the agent. The picture is admired by all. Mistakes were made.

the word, phrase, or clause that determines what a pronoun refers to, as the children in, The teacher asked the children where they were going.

a rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence and a mournful optimist.

doubtfulness or uncertainty as regards interpretation

omission of a word or phrase necessary for a complete syntactical construction but not necessary for understanding. A mark or series of marks (... or *, for example) used in writing or printing to indicate an omission, especially of letters or words

a phrase that consists of a preposition and its object and has adjectival or

adverbial value, such as in the house in the people in the house or by him in The book was written by him.

a literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit