AP Language Chapter 3 Vocabulary Flashcards

4781808769	Claim	States the arguments main idea or position; assertion or proposition.	0
4781808770	Warrant	Expresses the assumption necessarily shared by the speaker and the audience	1
4781808772	Argument	A persuasive discourse, a coherent and consider movement from a claim to the conclusion.	2
4781808773	Rogerian Arguments	Based on the assumption that having a full understanding of an opposing position is the essential to responding to it persuasively and refuting it in a way that is accommodating rather than alienating.	3
4782491744	Claims of Fact	Assert that something is true or not true	4
4782537334	Claim of Value	Argues that something is good or bad, right or wrong, desirable or undesirable.	5
4782558986	Claim of Policy	Proposes a change	6
4782627180	Closed Thesis	Statement if the main idea of the argument that also previews the major points the writer intends to make; often includes the word because.	7
4782684044	Counterargument Thesis	A summary of a counterargument, usually qualified by although or but, precedes the writers opinion	8
4799917780	Logical Fallacies	Potential vulnerabilities or weakness in an argument; failure to make a logical connection between the claim and the evidence used to support the claim.	9
4799986971	Red Herring	Speaker skips to a new and irrelevant topic in order to avoid the topic of discussion	10
4800000830	Ad Hominem Fallacy	Tactic of the switching the argument from the issue at hand to the character of the speaker	11
4800042220	Faulty Analogy	When an analogy compares two things that are not comparable	12
4800452572	Straw Man Fallacy	When a speaker chooses a deliberately poor or oversimplified example in order to refute an opponents viewpoint	13
4800472910	False Dilemma(Either/or)	The speaker presents two extreme options as the only possible choices	14
4800518361	Hasty Generalization	Not enough evidence to support a particular conclusion	15
4800518362	Circular Reasoning	Repeating the claim as a way to provide evidence resulting in no evidence at all. Ex. You can't give me a C; I am an A student	16
4800534820	First-hand Evidence	Some thing you know; personal experience, anecdotes, current events	17
4800576680	Second-hand Evidence	Accessed through research, reading, and investigation; historical information, expert opinion, and quantitative data. Citing what someone else knows	18
4806054449	Ad Populum/ Bandwagon	Evidence boils down to, "everybody's doing it, so it must be a good thing to do"	19
4806257504	Open Thesis	Does not list all of the points the writer intends to say.	20
4806257505	Quantitative Evidence	Things that can be represented in numbers: statistics, surveys, polls, census information	21
4883126715	Appeal to False Authority	An effort to strengthen an argument by referring an "authority" who is impressive but does not have expertise	22
4883210744	Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc/ False Cause	Inferring that because one thing happened after another there is a casual relationship between the two events	23
4911682611	Begging the Question	Requires the reader to accept a conclusion without providing evidence	24