7573966934 | antanaclasis | If we do not hang together, we will hang separately | 0 | |
7573969637 | anticipated objection | "You ask, what is our policy? I say it is to wage war by land, sea, and air... You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory." (Winston Churchill) | 1 | |
7573969638 | antimetabole | One should eat to live, not live to eat. | 2 | |
7573971980 | apologist | Romeo makes a case for marrying Juliet, despite the controversy | 3 | |
7573971981 | apology | "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'" (Martin Luther King Jr.) | 4 | |
7573971982 | apostrophe | "O' Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?" | 5 | |
7573974410 | appeal to authority | Issac Newton was a genius and he believed in God, so God must be real. | 6 | |
7573974411 | appeal to emotion | If you don't graduate from high school, you will always be poor. | 7 | |
7573975774 | argument by analysis | The Virginians failed miserably at initial colonization and suffered through disease, war, and famine because of their high expectations and greed, which also molded their colony socially and economically. | 8 | |
7573975775 | asyndeton | Reduce, reuse, recycle | 9 | |
7573977538 | basic topic | justice, peace, rights, movie theaters | 10 | |
7573979722 | common topic | Definition, division, comparison, relation, circumstances, testimony | 11 | |
7573979723 | compound subject | The dog and the cat scurried away from the approaching car. | 12 | |
7573982003 | confirmation | In Julius Caesar's speech, the confirmation was scattered throughout. | 13 | |
7573982004 | conflict | Jason tried hard to convince himself that his Hollywood dreams were worth the struggle, but his parents and his inner voice of reason failed to agree. | 14 | |
7573983459 | connotation | "Home" literally means where one lives, but implies feelings of family and security. | 15 | |
7573983460 | consulting | seeking help for one's writing from a reader | 16 | |
7573987710 | dramatistic period | The invention strategy that invites a speaker or writer to create identities for the act, agency, attitude, scene, and purpose in a situation. | 17 | |
7573989830 | effect | The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, causes the reader to have sympathy for immigrant workers. | 18 | |
7573989831 | ellipsis | Medical thinking... stressed air as the communicator of disease, ignoring sanitation or visible carriers. | 19 | |
7573992315 | epanalepsis | Blood hath brought blood. | 20 | |
7573992316 | epithet | Alexander the Great | 21 | |
7573992317 | figurative language | The ground is thirsty and hungry. | 22 | |
7573994623 | flashback | Back in the day when Sarah was a young girl... | 23 | |
7573994624 | generalization | "All French people are rude." | 24 | |
7573998674 | investigating | For my research paper, I have investigated many sources in the library and online. | 25 | |
7573998675 | irony | "Of course I believe you," Joe said sarcastically. | 26 | |
7573998676 | narration | The part of speech in which the speaker provided background information on the topic. | 27 | |
7574000802 | pace | the speed at which a plot moves from one event to another | 28 | |
7574000803 | parallelism | The dog ran, stumbled, and fell. | 29 | |
7574000804 | parenthesis | The dog (which was black) ran, stumbled, and fell. | 30 | |
7574003157 | periodic sentence | John, the tough one, the sullen kid who scoffed at any show of sentiment, gave his mother flowers. | 31 | |
7574003178 | scheme | Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. | 32 |
AP Literature: Rhetorical Terms- Argument Flashcards
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