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AP Eng Lang FINAL
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English
11th Grade
02/04/2010

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Diction
Definition
speaker or writer's choice of words
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Denotation
Definition
dictionary definition of a word
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Connotation
Definition
associations and emotional overtones that have become attached to a word of phrase in addition to its strict dictionary definition
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Tone
Definition
the attitude a writer takes toward the subject of a work, the characters in it, or the audience
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Ethos
Definition
appeal based on character or the speaker
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Logos
Definition
an appeal based on logic or reason
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Pathos
Definition
appeal based on emotion
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Figurative language
Definition
when a word or phrase is used to describe one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood on a literal level
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Metaphor
Definition
figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, in which one thing becomes another thing without the use of the word "like", "as", "than", or "resembles"
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Simile
Definition
figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things using a word such as "like", "as", "resembles", or "than"
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Personification
Definition
kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human
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Metonymy
Definition
when an object or thing represents a more complicated process or concept
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Synecdoche
Definition
the use of the part to represent the whole, or the whole to represent the part
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Hyperbole
Definition
exaggeration for effect and not meant to be taken literally
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Understatement
Definition
deliberate expression of an idea or event as less important than it actually is or was
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Apostrophe
Definition
a figure of speech in which a person, thing, or abstract quality is addressed as if present
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Imagery
Definition
language that appeals to the senses; sensory detail
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Syntax
Definition
the arrangement of words into sentences
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Clause
Definition
contains subject AND predicate
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Phrase
Definition
contains subject or predicate
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Declarative sentence
Definition
makes a statement
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Interrogative sentence
Definition
asks a question
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Imperative sentence
Definition
gives a command
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Exclamatory sentence
Definition
shows strong sudden feeling
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Simple sentence
Definition
1 independent clause
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Compound sentence
Definition
2 or more independent clauses
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Complex sentence
Definition
1 independent + 1 or more dependent clauses
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Compound-complex
Definition
2 or more independent clauses + 1 or more dependent clauses
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Periodic sentence
Definition
a sentence that is not grammatically complete until the end
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Loose sentence
Definition
a type of sentence in which the main idea (independent clause) comes first, followed by dependent grammatical units (phrases, clauses)
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Apposite
Definition
a noun or pronoun that is placed next to another noun or pronoun to identify or give additional information about it
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Parallel structure
Definition
requires that the elements of a sentence that are alike in meaning or function be alike in construction
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Parallel structure
Definition
requires that the elements of a sentence that are alike in meaning or function be alike in construction
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Balanced sentence
Definition
one in which 2 parallel elements are set off against each other like equal weights on a scale
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Antithesis
Definition
contrary ideas expressed in a balanced sentence
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Allusion
Definition
a figure of speech that makes brief, even casual reference to a historical or literary figure, event, or object to create resonance in the reader or to apply a symbolic meaning to the character or object of which the allusion consists
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Anecdote
Definition
a short narrative account of an amusing, revealing, or otherwise interesting event
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Litote
Definition
form of understatement in which negative of the contrary is used to achieve emphasis and intensity
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Onomatopoeia
Definition
a word capturing or approximating the sound of what it describes, such as "buzz" or "hiss"
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Oxymoron
Definition
a concise paradox where two contradictory ideas are combined in a single word or phrase
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Paradox
Definition
a statement that seems contradictory but is actually true
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Chiasmus
Definition
a figure of speech by which the order of terms in the first parallel clauses is reversed in the second
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Anadiplosis
Definition
repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the next clause
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Asyndeton
Definition
the practice of omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, clauses
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Who wrote "Here Follow Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666"?
Definition
Anne Bradstreet
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Jonathan Edwards wrote
Definition
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
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Who wrote the The Crucible?
Definition
Arthur Miller
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What is the setting of The Crucible?
Definition
1692, Salem, Massachusetts
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Who wrote "When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer"?
Definition
Walt Whitman
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Who wrote "Self-Reliance"?
Definition
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Who wrote "To Build a Fire"?
Definition
Jack London
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Puritanism (time)
Definition
1620 - 1750
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Rationalism (time)
Definition
1750 - 1800
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Romanticism (time)
Definition
1800 - 1860
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Transcendentalism (time)
Definition
1840 - 1860
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Realism (time)
Definition
1865 - 1900
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Naturalism (time)
Definition
1850 - 1900
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Puritanism

Definition

- Stemmed from English Protestants

- Believed everyone is a sinner but Jesus could save

- People were pre-destined to be damned or saved

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Rationalism
Definition

- People could obtain truth from reason rather than religion or intuition

- Reason = God's greatest gift

- God existed, but didn't take active part in lives

- God wants us to be independent

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Romanticism
Definition

- Valued feeling and intuition above reason

- Developed against rationalism

- Valued imagination, individual feeling, nature, spontaniety over reason, logic, planning, cultivation

- Inspiration found in myths, legends, folk culture

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Transcendentalism
Definition

- One must transcend everyday human experiences to determine ultimate truth

- Newer manifestation of idealism

- Physical/natural world = doorway to spiritual world

- Intuition used to behold God's spirit in nature or their own souls

- Experiences not falsified by senses, but by inner, spiritual, mental essence

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Realism
Definition

- Opposite of idealism

- Gave accounts of everyday life and why ordinary people behave the way they do

- Relied on sciences of human/animal behavior, biology, socioogy, psychology

- Also, regionalism

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Naturalism
Definition

- Relied heavily on growing scientific disciplines of psychology and sociology

- Attempted to dissect human behavior

Believed human behavior was affectedby forces beyond their individual power

- Human life = grim, losing battle

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