AP Language Vocabulary

a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but upon closer inspection contains come degree of truth or validity

• irony

• inference

• loose sentence

• paradox

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

the grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity

• loose sentence

• narrative

• parallelism

• invective

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch in credulity..."

• metonymy

• narrative

• parallelism

• juxtaposition

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

jumbo shrimp

• paradox

• irony

• oxymoron

• litotes

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

imaginative language not meant to be taken literally

• figurative language

• analogy

• apostrophe

• hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

A story or poem where the events and/or characters represent bigger, abstract ideas like religious or political events/people/beliefs

• allegory

• anaology

• personification

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

when something (object, animal, event, person, place, etc.) in a story represents itself but also stands for a bigger idea

• symbolism

• simile

• euphemism

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

a comparison between two things to explain or clarify; inference that if two things are alike in one way, they’ll be alike in other ways

• analogy

• allusion

• hyperbole

• figurative language

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5B

CCSS.L.8.5B

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

saying one thing is something else to show how they’re similar

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• allegory

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

comparing two different things using the words like, as, or than to show how they’re similar

• simile

• metaphor

• figurative language

• euphemism

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A