AP Language Flashcards

7220498576	Rhetoric	Rhetoric is the study of effective speaking and writing	0
7220499049	Kairos	the way a given context for communication both calls for and constrains one's speech	1
7220499628	Decorum	A central rhetorical principle requiring one's words and subject matter be aptly fit to each other, to the circumstances and occasion, the audience, and the speaker.	2
7220500658	Audience	those who will hear or read	3
7220501794	Persuasive/Rhetorical Apeals	Reason to believe	4
7220517212	Ethos	persuasive appeal of one's character	5
7220516793	Pathos	appeal to emotion	6
7220516794	Logos	appeal to reason	7
7220516322	Alliteration	Repetition of the same letter or sound within nearby words	8
7220516323	Anaphora	Repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses, sentences, or lines	9
7220515287	Antithesis	Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas	10
7220515288	Asyndecton	The omission of conjunctions between clauses, often resulting in a hurried rhythm or vehement effect	11
7220510743	Epistrophe	Ending a series of lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences with the same word or words	12
7220510352	Hyperbole	Rhetorical exaggeration	13
7220509732	Irony	Speaking in such a way as to imply the contrary of what one says, often for the purpose of derision, mockery, or jest	14
7220508495	Litotes	Deliberate understatement, especially when expressing a thought by denying its opposite	15
7220508496	Metonymy	Reference to something or someone by naming one of its attributes	16
7220507969	Oxymoron	Placing two ordinarily opposing terms adjacent to one another	17
7220507345	Paradox	A statement that is self-contradictory on the surface, yet seems to evoke a truth nonetheless	18
7220507087	Parallelism	Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	19
7220506504	Polysyndeton	any question asked for a purpose other than to obtain the information the question asks	20
7220505823	Rhetorical Question	any question asked for a purpose other than to obtain the information the question asks	21
7220504863	Sarcasm	Use of mockery, verbal taunts, or bitter irony	22
7220504864	Synecdoche	A whole is represented by naming one of its parts or vice versa.	23
7220504614	Zeugma	term describing when one part of speech governs two or more other parts of a sentence	24