AP Lang Vocabulary Week 3

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satire

ridicule of folly or to expose to correct an incident, the rules of united airlines fight or flight club

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diction

Speaker's choice of words

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syntax

The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language; usually the speaker decides

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tone vs mood

Tone: the feeling the speaker wants to invoke on the audience from his text Mood: feeling created by the speaker's work

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metaphor vs simile

they both state comparison between two objects, but a simile uses like or as and a metaphor uses neither

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personification

a figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human emotions and feelings

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hyperbole

a figure of speech that uses deliberate exaggeration to create a heightened effect

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Parrallelism

repetition of grammatical structure to keep a fluid read for the audience

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juxtaposition

placing elements together to represent a comparison or contrast

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antithesis

the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, most commonly in parallel structure

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compound sentence

a sentence with more than one subject or predicate.

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complex sentence

a sentence containing a subordinate clause or clauses.

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periodic sentence

a complex sentence in which the main clause comes last and is preceded by the subordinate clause

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cumulative sentence

a sentence that completes its main clause/thought at the beginning and then adds to it

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imperative sentence

a sentence used for commands or requests

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