AP Language Unit 1 Vocab Flashcards
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| 4964255179 | rhetoric | The art of using language effectively and persuasively | 0 | |
| 4964197774 | occasion | the time and place a speech is given or a piece is written | 1 | |
| 4964197775 | context | circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and events surrounding a text | 2 | |
| 4964199677 | purpose | the goal the speaker wants to achieve | 3 | |
| 4964203791 | rhetorical/aristotelian triangle | A diagram that represents a rhetorical situation as the relationship among the speaker, the subject, and the audience | 4 | |
| 4964248884 | subject | topic of a text, what the text is about | 5 | |
| 4964255180 | text | any cultural product that can be "read", includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, cartoons, fine art, etc | 6 | |
| 4964203792 | speaker | the person or group who creates a text | 7 | |
| 4964206292 | persona | Greek for "mask", face or character that a speaker shows to his or her audience | 8 | |
| 4964206293 | audience | the listener, viewer, or reader of a text. Most texts have more than one of this | 9 | |
| 4964206294 | SOAPs | A mnemonic device that stands for Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, and Speaker. It is a handy way to remember the various elements that make up the rhetorical situation. | 10 | |
| 4964210330 | rhetorical appeals | techniques used to persuade an audience by emphasizing what they find most important or compelling. The three major appeals are to ethos (character), logos (reason), and pathos (emotion). | 11 | |
| 4964210331 | ethos | credible and trustworthy | 12 | |
| 4964210332 | logos | clear, rational ideas and using specific details, examples, facts, statistics, or expert testimony to back them up. | 13 | |
| 4964210333 | pathos | an appeal to emotion | 14 | |
| 4964230736 | counterargument | A challenge to a position; an opposing argument. A strong writer will address this in his or her text. | 15 | |
| 4964230737 | concession | acknowledgement that an opposing argument may be true or reasonable. | 16 | |
| 4964233235 | refutation | A denial of the validity of an opposing argument. In order to sound reasonable, they often follow a concession that acknowledges that an opposing argument may be true or reasonable. | 17 | |
| 4964235591 | polemical | controversial; argumentative | 18 | |
| 4964235592 | propaganda | A negative term for writing designed to sway opinion rather than present information. | 19 | |
| 4964242745 | connotations | All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests, feelings and associations that go beyond the dictionary definition of a word | 20 |