Chapter 1 AP Language Flashcards

4738498442	Aristotelian Triangle	A diagram that illustrates the interrelationship between speaker, audience, and subject in determining a text	0
4738498443	Audience	The listener, reader, or viewer of a text	1
4738498444	Concession	An acknowledgement that an opposing argument may be true or reasonable	2
4738498445	Connotation	Meanings or Associations that readers have with a word beyond its dictionary definition, or denotation.	3
4738498446	Context	The circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and events surrounding a text	4
4738498447	Counterargument	An opposing argument to the one that a writer is putting forward.	5
4738498448	Occasion	The time and place a speech is given or a piece is written.	6
4738498449	Persona	Greek for "mask". The face or character that a speaker shows to his audience.	7
4738498450	Polemic	Greek for "Hostile". An aggressive argument the superiority of one opinion over all others.	8
4738498451	Propaganda	The spread of Ideas or Information to further a cause.	9
4738498452	Purpose	The goal the speaker wants to achieve	10
4738498453	Refutation	A denial of the validity of an opposing argument	11
4738498454	Rhetorical Apeals	Rhetorical techniques used to persuade the audience by emphasising what they find most important or compelling	12
4738498455	Rhetorical Triangle	A diagram that illustrates the interrelationship between speaker, audience, and subject in determining a text	13
4738498456	SOAPS	A mnemonic device that stands for Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, and Speaker.	14
4738498457	Speaker	The person or group who creates a text.	15
4738498458	Subject	The topic of a text	16
4738498459	Text	While this term generally means the written word, in the humanities it has come to mean any cultural product that can be "read"- meaning not just consumed and comprehended, but investigated.	17
4738498460	Pathos	Greek for "suffering" or "experience". Speakers appeal to it to emotionally motivate their audience.	18
4738498461	Ethos	Greek for "Character". Speakers appeal to it to demonstrate that they are Credible and Trustworthy to speak on a given topic.	19
4738498462	Logos	Greek for "Embodied thought". Speakers appeal to it, or reason, by offering clear rational ideas, and using specific details, examples, facts, statistics, or expert testimony to back them up.	20
4738498463	Rhetoric	As Aristotle defined the term "The faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion". In other words, it's the art of finding ways to persuade an audience.	21