AP Language Vocab: Aphorism-->Bathos Flashcards

4883080047	Aphorism	A terse saying embodying a general truth, or absolute observation, as "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" (Lord Acton)	0
4883080048	Apollonian	Pertaining to the cult of Apollo; serene, calm, or well-balanced; poised and disciplined; having the properties of or preferring classic beauty. (Compare Dionysian)	1
4883085429	Apostrophe	A digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea, as "O Death, where is thy sting?"	2
4883085430	Arch	Playful roguish, or mischievous: an arch smile. Cunning; crafty; sly	3
4883086741	Archetype	An original model or type after which other similar things are patterned	4
4883088558	Argument	The process by which a writer tries to persuade a reader to adopt a particular view	5
4883088559	Arrangement	The order in which ideas are presented in a speech or essay	6
4883090953	Artistic Proofs	The proofs that are within the control of the speaker or writer; identified by Aristotle as ethos, logos, and pathos	7
4883090954	Assonance	The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, especially in stressed syllables, with changes in the intervening consonants, as in the phrase tilting at windmills	8
4883090955	Asyndeton	A rhetorical device in which expected conjunctions are omitted	9
4883090956	Attitude	Manner, disposition, feeling, position with regard to a person or thing; tendency or orientation, esp. of the mind	10
4883091959	Backing	The unstated assumption behind the argument	11
4883091960	Balance	to serve as a counterpoise to; counterbalance; offset: The advantages more than balance the disadvantages. Ex: While the jury deliberated, his fate rested in the balance	12
4883091961	Bard	Any poet	13
4883091962	Bathos	A ludicrous descent from the exalted or lofty to the commonplace; anticlimax; insincere pathos; sentimentality; mawkishness; triteness or triviality in style	14