6600972159 | Logos | Appeal to reason and logic | 0 | |
6600972160 | Ethos | Appeal to speakers credibility | 1 | |
6600972161 | Pathos | Appeal to emotions, values, or desires of audience | 2 | |
6600972162 | Imagery | Sensory perception | 3 | |
6600972163 | Hyperbole | Overstatement or exaggeration | 4 | |
6600972164 | Understatement | Something less significant that it really is | 5 | |
6600972165 | Simile | Comparison between two unlike objects using like or as | 6 | |
6600972166 | Metaphor | Simile without using like or as | 7 | |
6600972167 | Denotation | Word's primary or literal significance | 8 | |
6600972168 | Connotation | Refers to the range of meanings of a word | 9 | |
6600972169 | Oxymoron | Two contradictory words that are paired together Ex: jumbo shrimp, civil war, old news | 10 | |
6600972170 | Paradox | Two elements which cannot be true at the same time (each one can be true on its own) | 11 | |
6600972171 | Personification | Inanimate objects given human qualities | 12 | |
6600972172 | Bombast | Overly rhetorical in context | 13 | |
6600972173 | Pun | Word that serves a different meaning | 14 | |
6600972174 | Metonymy | One term is substituted for another term which are closely associated Ex: "Hearty Red"= Red Wine | 15 | |
6600972175 | Synedoche | A part is used to signify the whole Ex: "All hands on deck", the hands represent the sailors | 16 | |
6600972176 | Aphorism | Concise, meaningful statement of an opinion or a general truth | 17 | |
6600972177 | Malapropism | The use of a word that resembles word intended | 18 | |
6600972178 | Circumlocation | Talking around a subject or word | 19 | |
6600972179 | Euphemism | Avoiding the use of a word that might be considered an unpleasant or offensive term Ex: most times describes sex | 20 | |
6600972180 | Verbal irony | Process of stating something but meaning the opposite of what is stated | 21 | |
6600972181 | Sarcasm | Verbal irony used with the intent to injure in a malicious tone | 22 | |
6600972182 | Satire | Deliberately distorted to achieve comic effect | 23 |
AP Language Rhetoric and Figurative Language Flashcards
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