AP ENGLISH LANGUAGEâ2015 SUMMER
AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE—2015 SUMMER ASSIGNMENT AP English Language and Composition Terms for Glossary: For each of the words on the attached list, including bold words, provide the definition in your own words. Definitions that are copied verbatim or that are cut and pasted from another source will not be accepted! Be sure to consult the resources listed below for your definitions. You are expected to have a basic knowledge of these terms at the beginning of the school year; of course, we will build upon this understanding through the year. Please leave a space or two to fill in examples as the year continues, and we review the terms. Diction: Syntax & Syntactical Features: Rhetorical Modes: Apostrophe Anaphora Description Colloquialism Antithesis Expository Connotation Asyndeton Compare/Contrast Denotation Chiasmus Cause/Effect Dialect Epistrophe Classification/Division Invective Inversion Example Jargon Juxtaposition Analogy Slang Polysyndeton Definition Zeugma Process Analysis Declarative Narrative Imperative Persuasion Interrogative Persuasion: Exclamatory General: Ethos Rhetorical Question Rhetoric Logos Simple Tone/Mood/Attitude Pathos Compound Point of View: Logical Fallacy Complex 1st Person Parody Compound-Complex 1st Person Stream of Consciousness Persona Loose 3rd Person Limited Pun Periodic Rhetorical Triangle Sarcasm Balanced Voice Sardonic Cumulative Speaker Satire Hortative Syllogism Didactic First Hand Evidence: Wit Pedantic Personal Experience Inductive Anecdote Deductive Current Events Stereotype Second Hand Evidence: Historical Information Expert Opinion Quantitative Data Fallacies of Relevance: Fallacies of Accuracy: Fallacies of Insufficiency: Red Herring Straw man Circular Reasoning Ad Hominem Either/or Hasty Generalization Faulty Analogy Figurative Language: Allegory Alliteration Assonance Allusion Analogy Cacophony/Euphony Cliché Consonance Hyperbole/Overstatement Idiom Paradox Imagery Personification Irony: Situational, dramatic, verbal Litotes Simile Metaphor Synecdoche Metonymy Understatement Onomatopoeia Oxymoron Parable Sources for consideration: Springboard Level Five: Glossary of Terms (Back of 10th grade Springboard) http://www.virtualsalt.com/rhetoric.htm http://www.virtualsalt.com/litterms.htm http://www.uky.edu/AS/Classics/rhetoric.html The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, ed. Chris Baldick (Oxford, 1990)
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