AP Lang Unit 1
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| 4786358426 | Audience | The listener, viewer, or reader of a text. | 0 | |
| 4786358427 | Concession | An acknowledgement that an opposing argument may be true or reasonable. | 1 | |
| 4786358428 | Connotation | Meanings or associations that readers have with a word beyond its dictionary definition, or denotation. | 2 | |
| 4786358429 | Context | The circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and events surrounding a text. | 3 | |
| 4786358430 | Counterargument | An opposing argument to the one a writer is putting forward. | 4 | |
| 4786358431 | Ethos | Greek for "character." Speakers appeal to this to demonstrate that they are credible and trustworthy to speak on a given topic. | 5 | |
| 4786358432 | Logos | Greek for "embodied thought." Speakers appeal to this by offering clear, rational ideas and using specific details, examples, facts, statistics, or expert testimony to back them up. | 6 | |
| 4786358433 | Occasion | The time and place a speech is given or a piece is written. | 7 | |
| 4786358434 | Pathos | Greek for "suffering" or "experiences." Speakers appeal to this to emotionally motivate their audience. | 8 | |
| 4786358435 | Persona | Greek for "mask." The face or character that a speaker shows to his or her audience. | 9 | |
| 4786358436 | Polemic | Greek for "hostile." An aggressive argument that tries to establish the superiority of one opinion over all others. | 10 | |
| 4786358437 | Propaganda | The spread of ideas and information to further a cause. | 11 | |
| 4786358438 | Purpose | The goal a speaker wants to achieve. | 12 | |
| 4786358439 | Refutation | A denial of the validity of an opposing argument. | 13 | |
| 4786358440 | Rhetoric | "the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion" or the art of finding ways to persuade an audience. | 14 | |
| 4786358441 | Rhetorical Appeals | Rhetorical techniques used to persuade an audience by emphasizing what they find most important or compelling. | 15 | |
| 4786358442 | Rhetorical Triangle (Aristotelian Triangle) | A diagram that illustrates the interrelationship among the speaker, audience, and subject in determining a text. |  | 16 |
| 4786358443 | SOAPS | A mnemonic device that stands for Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, and Speaker. | 17 | |
| 4786358444 | Speaker | The person or group who creates a text. | 18 | |
| 4786358445 | Subject | The topic of a text; what the text is about. | 19 | |
| 4786358446 | Text | Generally meaning the written word, it has come to mean any cultural product that can be read- meaning not just consumed and comprehended, but investigated. | 20 |
