AP Language Midyear Academic Terms Flashcards
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| 5817334750 | Ad hominem | (of an argument or reaction) directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining | 0 | |
| 5817334751 | Ambiguity | uncertainty or inexactness of meaning in language | 1 | |
| 5817334752 | Asyndeton | Joining clauses while omitting coordinating words or conjunctions | 2 | |
| 5817336048 | Balanced sentence | A sentence that employs parallel structure of approximately the same length and importance | 3 | |
| 5817336049 | Complex sentence | A dependent clause and one or more independent clauses | 4 | |
| 5817336050 | Compound sentence | Two or more independent clauses | 5 | |
| 5817337158 | Compound-complex sentence | Two or more independent clauses and a dependent clause | 6 | |
| 5817338667 | Cumulative Sentence | A sentence where the main idea is elaborated by a long series of clauses | 7 | |
| 5817338668 | Ethos | Refers to the character of a person | 8 | |
| 5817338669 | Fallacy | Failures in reasoning that render arguments invalid | 9 | |
| 5817340008 | Inverted Sentence | A sentence in a normally subject-first language in which the verb comes before the noun | 10 | |
| 5817340009 | Logos | An appeal to logic, means "word" | 11 | |
| 5817340010 | Metonymy | Substituting the name of an attribute for the thing meant | 12 | |
| 5817340011 | Parallelism | Repetition of similar or syntactical patterns | 13 | |
| 5817342219 | Pathos | Broader appeals to emotion, used to defer to suffering | 14 | |
| 5817342220 | Periodic sentence | A sentence that builds towards the end with the main clause (main idea at the end) | 15 | |
| 5817344250 | Polysyndeton | Using several conjunctions in close succession | 16 | |
| 5817344251 | Qualifier | Specification of limits to the claim; warrent and backing | 17 | |
| 5817344252 | Rebuttal | Exceptions to the claim; description and rebuttal of counter-examples and counter-arguments | 18 | |
| 5817345588 | Rhetorical Triangle | A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship between the speaker, subject, and audience | 19 | |
| 5817345589 | Scheme | A pattern of words or sentence construction used for rhetorical effect | 20 | |
| 5817345590 | Simple sentence | Contains one independent clause | 21 | |
| 5817345591 | Straw man | A sham argument set up to be defeated | 22 | |
| 5817347019 | Synecdoche | A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 23 | |
| 5817347020 | Toulmin model | A model for persuasive argument that consists of six parts: evidence, qualifier, claim, warrant, rebuttal, backing | 24 | |
| 5817347021 | Trope | A category of rhetorical devices that involves figures of speech or a nonliteral translation | 25 | |
| 5817347022 | Warrent | The principle provision or chain of reasoning that connects the grounds/reason to the claim | 26 | |
| 5817350157 | Zeugma | A figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses | 27 |