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| 267740938 | Diction | Word Choice. | 0 | |
| 267740939 | Syntax | Ordering of words in a sentence; it describes sentence structure. Ex: Never was anything so gallant, so well outfitted, so brilliant, and so finely disposed as the two armies. The trumpets, fifes, reeds, drums, and cannon made such harmony as never was heard in Hell. The first sentence poses as a fairly simple sketch of a glorious battle scene. The second begins the same fashion, but its words are arranged in a way that maximizes the effect of suprise that comes at the end of the sentence. The cannons are slipped in as the final member of a list of military musical instruments; the formation of the list creates an expectation that the final element will fit nicely into the set. It doesn't, but we don't have time to register our suprise because we're immediately distracted by a new setup with the phrase "such as harmony was never heard.." We expect harmony to be something beautiful, and we are already begin to supply the final word. | 1 | |
| 267740940 | Style | Manner of expression. Describes how the author uses language to get his or her point across. Ex: Pedamtoc, scientific, and emotive | 2 | |
| 267740941 | Tone | Attitude, mood, or sentiments revealed by the style. ___ describes how the author seems to be feeling. Ex: optimistic, ironic, and playful | 3 | |
| 267740942 | Point of View | The stance revealed by the style and tone of the writing. The author's ____ ___ ____ expresses his or her position on the topic discussed. | 4 | |
| 267740943 | Rhetoric | Art of speaking or writing effectively. The stylistic devices an author uses to appeal sucessfully to a specific audience and is usually persuasive in nature. | 5 | |
| 267740944 | Logos | Appeal to logic. An arguement that uses ___ to persuade needs to provide things like objective evidence, hard facts, statistics, or logical strategies such as "cause and effect" to back up its claim. | 6 | |
| 267740945 | Ethos | An appeal to the speaker's credibility- whether she is to be believed on the basis of her character and expertise. Ex: The prosecution in a murder trial might put a renowned psychiatrist on the stand to testify that the defendant is able to identify right and wrong and is thus capable of standing trial. Their argument would be using an appeal to ___ to persuade the jury (their audience) that the testimony of this expert is to be trusted. | 7 | |
| 267740946 | Pathos | An appeal to the emotions, values, or desires of the audience. Ex: Aristotle felt that, although ideally people would be persuaded by appeals to logic, they would probably most often be persuaded by their emotions and beliefs instead. This is why, in that same murder trial, a defense attorney might tell the jury about the lonely childhood and difficult life of the defendant- he would be appealing to the ____ of the audience to convince them that his client should not be convicted. | 8 | |
| 267740947 | Figurative Language | Strictly defined as speech or writing that departs from literal meaning to achieve a special effect or meaning. Ex: With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. | 9 | |
| 267740948 | Imagery | Figurative language that is used to convey a sensory perception(visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile, or gustatory) | 10 | |
| 267740949 | Hyperbole | An overstatement or exaggeration; it is the use of figurative language that significantly exaggerates the facts for effect. Ex: If you use too much figurative language in your free-response essays, the AP readers will crucify you! | 11 | |
| 267740950 | Understatement | Figurative Language that presents the facts in a way that makes them appear much less significant than they really are. Ex: After dinner, they came and took into custody Doctor Pangloss and his pupil Candide, the on espeaking his mind and the other for appearing to approve what he heard. They were conducted to seperate apartments, which were extremely cool and where they were never bothered by the sun. | 12 | |
| 267740951 | Simile | A comparision between two unlike objects, in which the two parts are connected with a term such as like or as. Ex: The birds are like black arrows flying across the sky. | 13 | |
| 267740952 | Metaphor | A simile without a connecting term such as like or as. Ex: The birds are black arrows flying across the sky. | 14 | |
| 267740953 | Extended Metaphor | A metaphor that lasts for longer than just one phrase or sentence. Ex: During the time I have voyaged on this ship, I have avoided the cabin; rather, i have remained on deck, battered by wind and rain, but able to see moonlight on the water. I do not wish to go below decks now. | 15 | |
| 267740954 | Symbol | A word that represents something other than itself. Ex: The Christian soldiers paused to remember the lamb. | 16 | |
| 267740955 | Denotation | A word's primary or literal significance. Ex: I am looking at the sky. The _____ of the underlined word should be as clear as a cloudless sky (the space, often blue, above the earth's surface). | 17 |
