AP Lang Vocabulary

Two items, ideas, characters, etc placed side by side for comparison. Sometimes intentional, Sometimes Not.

• Oxymoron

• Juxtaposition

• Allegory

• Litotes

Ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary 

• Chiasmus

• Euphemism

• Litotes

• Allusion

A figure of speech where the speaker asks a question or several questions and then answers them.

• Hypophora

• Chiasmus

• Rhetorical Question

• Litotes

If I can’t buy that perfect prom dress, I’ll die!

• Litotes

• Allusion

• Hyperbole

• line of reasoning

What is a hyperbole?

• A statement that gives non-human objects human characteristics.

• a comparison using like or as.

• an exaggerated statement that is not meant to be taken literally.

A point of proposition put forward by a writer that then requires development and support

• context

• close reading

• claim

• epistrophe

The time, place, and situation that give rise to a piece of writing.

• diction

• denotation

• ethos

• context

A method of paying careful attention to the organization, diction, syntax, imagery, and figurative language of a text in order to understand its meaning.

• Deductive Argument

• Diction

• Ellipsis

• Close reading

The implied, suggested meaning of a word; the association connected to a word.

• Context

• Denotation

• Connotation

• Close reading

The storm was ferocious and fierce, knocking poles down in its path.

• Connotation

• Denotation

• Epistrophe

• Ethos