AP terms 2

31274879	Aesthetic	Pertaining to the value of art for its own sake or for form; pertaining to the critical reflection on art, nature, culture, or beauty.
31274880	Anadiplosis	Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the next clause.
31274881	Anaphora	Literary device of repetition, in which a word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of a series of lines. (eg Martin Luther King's repetition of the phrase "I have a dream that...")
31274882	Appeals to logic	Rhetorical arguments in which the speaker attempts to persuade the listener through use of deductive reasoning.
31274883	Begging the question	To sidestep or evade the real problem.
31274884	Claim	An assertion of something as fact; to demand as a right or as due; a statement that you want your audience to believe.
31274885	Convention	An accepted manner, model, or tradition; a common way of looking at or examining something.
31274886	Diction	An author's choice of words to convey a tone or effect.
31274887	Elegy	Poem or prose lamenting the death of a particular person.
31274888	Ethos	In dramatic literature, the moral element that determines a charcter's actions, rather than thought or emotion.
31274889	Eulogy	A speech or writing in praise of a person or thing; an oration in honor of a deceased person, typically given at a funeral or memorial.
31274890	Genre	Term used to describe literary forms, such as tragedy, comedy, novel or essay; a loose set of criteria that groups together types of writing/composition
31274891	Invective	The use of angry and insulting language in satirical writing.
31274892	Litote	Form of understatement in which the negative of the contrary is used to achieve. (eg Saying "You're not terrible" to express that you did a wonderful job)
31274893	Narrative device	Use of techniques such as flashbacks and/or digression in the telling of a story.
31274894	Oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements, as in "jumbo shrimp" or "deafening silence".
31274895	Perspective	A character's view of the situation or events in the story.
31274896	Reflective	A piece of writing that gives considered thought to something.
31274897	Satire	A literary style used to make fun of or ridicule an idea or human vice or weakness, often for the sake of changing society for the better.
31274898	Synecdoche	A figure of speech in which a part signifies the whole, such as "head of cattle" or "hands on deck".
31274899	Trope	The use of a word in a figurative sense with a decided change or extension in its literal meaning; a shift in the typical meaning of a word (eg "I put down my weapon of choice at the end of my test--a dull #2 lead pencil")