AP Language Flashcards

4827637072	Assertion	a confident and forceful statement of fact or belief	0
4827646372	Assumption	a thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof	1
4827688529	Authority	the power or right to give orders	2
4827691585	Counterargument	an argument or set of reasons put forward to oppose an idea or theory	3
4827724596	Occasion	an event or situation that catches the writer's attention and triggers a response	4
4827733953	Polemic	a strong verbal or written attack on someone or something	5
4827738446	Major Premise	The premise containing the major term in a syllogism	6
4827751869	Minor Premise	The premise containing the minor term in a syllogism	7
4827764289	Refute	prove to be wrong or false; disprove	8
4827785274	Rhetorical Modes	describe the variety, particularly writing and speaking	9
4827847261	Syllogism	a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion	10
4827847262	Understatement	s speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is	11
4827854938	Ad Hoc	formed, arranged, or done for a particular purpose only	12
4827857298	Ad Hominem	involves commenting on or against an opponent to undermine him instead of his arguments.	13
4827861825	Begging the Question	the writer or speaker assumes the statement under examination to be true	14
4827861826	Circular Reasoning	a logical fallacy in which the reasoner begins with what they are trying to end with	15
4827865207	Either/Or Argument	allowing no equivocation; being limited in choice to two options	16
4827867089	Hasty Generalization	drawing a conclusion based on a small sample size, rather than looking at statistics that are much more in line with the average situation	17
4827868645	Non sequitur Argument	it can be when what is presented as evidence or reason is irrelevant or adds very little support to the conclusion	18
4827873454	Post Hoc Argument	relating to or being the fallacy of arguing from temporal sequence to a causal relation	19
4827879901	Straw-man Argument	giving the impression of refuting an opponent's argument, while actually refuting another argument	20