AP Language Rhetoric Terms Flashcards

4978190264	antithesis	the opposition or contrast of ideas; the direct opposite	0
4978190265	aphorism	A terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle	1
4978190266	appeal to ethos	writers establish their credibility to get us to believe/trust their argument; this demonstrates reliability on the part of the speaker and respect for the audience's ideas.	2
4978190267	appeal to logos	writers use logic to engage the intellect in reason; these evoke a cognitive response.	3
4978190268	appeal to pathos	use of emotions to touch a nerve and compel people to action	4
4978190269	Aristotelian Triangle aka Rhetorical Triangle	the relationship between speaker, text, and reader; and the use of the appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in an argument.	5
4978190270	atmosphere	The emotional nod created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author's choice of objects that are described	6
4978190271	caricature	a verbal description, the purpose of which is to exaggerate or distort, for comic effect, a person's distinctive physical features or other characteristics.	7
4978190272	deductive reasoning	reaching a probable conclusion based on given premises (moves from a general rule to specifics)	8
4978190273	exordium	the introductory part of an argument in which a speaker or writer establishes credibility (ethos) and announces the subject and purpose of the discourse	9
4978190274	generalization	refers to large classes, concepts, groups, and emotions	10
4978190275	inductive reasoning	forming a generalization from a set of specific examples (moves from specifics to a generalization)	11
4978190276	inference/infer	To draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented	12
4978266840	prose	one of the major divisions of genre, refers to fiction and nonfiction, including all its forms	13
4978268453	rhetoric	From the Greek for "orator," this term describes the principles governing the art of writing effectively, eloquently, and persuasively	14
4978270615	style	An evaluation of the sum of the choices an author makes in blending diction, syntax, figurative language, and other literary devices	15
4978272796	syllogism	From the Greek for "reckoning together," it's a deductive system of formal logic that presents two premises (the first one called "major" and the second called "minor") that inevitably lead to a sound conclusion	16
4978276375	symbol/symbolism	anything that represents itself and stands for something else	17
4978276376	natural symbol	objects and occurrences from nature to represent ideas commonly associated with them	18
4978279804	conventional symbols	those that have been invested with meaning by a group (religious symbols such as a cross or Star of David)	19
4978281542	literary symbols	found in a variety of works and are more generally recognized	20
4978283260	theme	the central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life	21
4978283261	thesis	sentence or group of sentences that directly expresses the author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or position	22
4978287774	transition	A word or phrase that links different ideas, effectively signal a shift from one idea to another.	23
4978287775	verismultitude	having the appearance of truthfulness	24
4978289200	wit	in modern usage, intellectually amusing language that surprises and delights, usually uses terse language that makes a pointed statement	25