AP language vocab Flashcards

4835679238	Audience	The listener, viewer, or reader of the text.	0
4835679239	Concession	An acknowledgement that an opposing argument may be true or reasonable.	1
4835679240	Connotation	Meanings or associations that readers have with a word beyond its dictionary definition.	2
4835679241	Context	The circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and events surrounding a text.	3
4835679242	Counterargument	An opposing argument to the one a writer is putting forward.	4
4835679243	Ethos	Usage to demonstrating that they are credible and trustworthy to speak on a given topic.	5
4835679244	Logos	Uses statistics, examples, rational ideas, facts, and specified details to back anything up.	6
4835679245	Occasion	The time and place a speech is given or a price is written.	7
4835679246	Pathos	To emotionally motivate their audience.	8
4835679247	Persona	The face or character that a speaker shows to his or her audience	9
4835679248	Polemic	An aggressive argument that tries to establish the superiority of one opinion over all others.	10
4835679249	Properganda	The spread of ideas and information to further a cause. Uses rumors, lies, disinformation, and scare tactics in order to damage or promote a cause.	11
4835679250	Purpose	The goal the speaker wants to achieve.	12
4835679251	Refutation	A denial of a validity of an opposing argument.	13
4835679252	Rhetoric	The art of finding ways to persuade an audience.	14
4835679253	Rhetorical appeals	Rhetorical techniques used to persuade an audience by emphasizing what they find mist important.	15
4835679254	Rhetorical triangle	A diagram that illustrates the interrelationships among the speaker, audience, and the subject in determining a text.	16
4835679255	Soaps	Uses subject, occasion, audience, purpose, and speaker.	17