7262218635 | rhetorical triangle | a triangle used to illustrate how these three elements: speaker subject audience, are interrelated | ![]() | 0 |
7262233419 | audience | the listener, viewer, or reader of a text | 1 | |
7262237923 | concession | an acknowledgement that an opposing argument is true or reasonable | 2 | |
7262241629 | context | circumstances, attitudes, and events surrounding a text | 3 | |
7262245350 | counterargument | an opposing argument to the one the writer is putting forward | 4 | |
7262250691 | ethos | Greek for "character" credibility or trustworthy | 5 | |
7262253644 | logos | Greek for "embodied thought" logic or reason | 6 | |
7262257932 | occasion | the time and place a speech is given or a piece is written | 7 | |
7262260330 | pathos | appealing to emotions to motivate audience | 8 | |
7262263143 | persona | mask | 9 | |
7262263911 | polemic | an aggressive argument that tries to establish the superiority of one opinion over all others and don't concede | 10 | |
7262269172 | propaganda | the spread of ideas and info to further a cause | 11 | |
7262271242 | purpose | goal of speaker | 12 | |
7262272694 | refutation | a denial of the validity of a n opposing argument | 13 | |
7262275813 | rhetoric | a faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion | 14 | |
7262278772 | rhetorical appeals | rhetorical techniques to persuade an audience are: ethos, logos, pathos | 15 | |
7262282424 | SOAPS | Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, and Speaker all help us determine the rhetorical situation | 16 | |
7262288578 | speaker | person who creates a text | 17 | |
7262289077 | subject | topic of text | 18 | |
7262585853 | focal point | where the eye comes to -- dominant image eye travels upward | 19 | |
7262591603 | figure-ground contrast | the background of the photo and the foreground | 20 | |
7262595328 | Grouping: Similarity vs Proximity | Objects that are the same and objects that are close in distance or far in distance | 21 | |
7262599385 | color | people respond emotionally to it. Warm colors remind us of fire and sun Cool colors remind us of water and forest | 22 | |
7262603269 | continuation | the belief that elements that suggest a continued visual line will be grouped together | 23 | |
7262607310 | lines | provide a sense of motion or movement | 24 | |
7262611562 | Horizontal Lines | create a sense of calm | 25 | |
7262612389 | vertical lines | create a suggest movement | 26 | |
7262616073 | wavy lines | imply softness, grace, flow or changei | 27 | |
7262619388 | diagonal lines | create stress | 28 | |
7262620316 | closure | the need to complete the picture, fill in missing info | 29 | |
7262622585 | Narration | image tells a story:characters, plot, setting, etc | 30 | |
7262624301 | context | info listed in a caption that helps the viewer understand whats happening | 31 |
Ap Language and composition chapter 1 Flashcards
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