unfamiliar terms from AP questions




Define and provide an example of these terms (they come from actual AP objective practice tests that we’ve taken in class):

  • Begging the question
  • Reasoning in a circle
  • Truism
  • Satirize (satire)
  • Paradoxical (paradox)
  • Understatement
  • Metaphor
  • mood
  • tone
  • Onomatopoeia
  • alliteration
  • types of sentences (simple, compound, complex, compound-complex)
  • assonance
  • consonance
  • verbals
  • parallel series, parallelism

from Jan. 5 obj. test

  • allusion
  • euphemism
  • personification
  • circumlocution
  • authorial aside
  • repudiation

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