2017 AP LANG VOCAB REVIEW Flashcards

6806378291	PASTA	Purpose, Audience, Support, Tone, Authorial Bias	0
6806387631	Aristotelian Triangle	The relationship between the author/speaker, text, and audience	1
6806394764	Pathos	Appeal to the reader/listener's emotions, such as fear, anger, sentiment, patriotism	2
6806403295	Logos	Appeal to the reader or listener's logic	3
6806408692	Ethos	An appeal to the reader/audience by stressing the writer/speaker's trustworthiness	4
6806428247	Connotative language	Word choice that does more than denote--rather, this language elicits a positive or negative feeling from the reader/listener. Loaded language that encourages judgment..	5
6806451581	Denotative Language	Neutral word choice that simply and objectively describes something. Definition.	6
6806461785	Antithesis	In rhetoric when 2 opposite ideas or objects are placed side by side to create contrast: "Give me liberty or give me death."	7
6806490286	Claim of value	Judgment Statement that involves taste or morality: something is either good or bad, useful or worthless, etc.	8
6806505389	Claim of fact	Statement based on factual, provable evidence. Objective.	9
6806525357	Claim of policy	Statement wherein one plan or action is deemed more desirable or effective than another. Policy claims typically have the words "should" or "ought."	10
6807801751	Allusion	Brief reference to a person, event, place, or work of art	11
6807817023	Hortative sentence	Sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action: let us ...	12
6807825849	Imperative sentence	A command: just do it! Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country!	13
6807838629	Inversion	An inverted order of words in a sentence. Like Yoda talk. "Evil he is. Divided we are. Hungry I am."	14
6807868173	Juxtaposed, juxtaposition	Placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences: justaposition of sweetness and saltiness in kettlecorn makes for a delicious treat.	15
6807885504	Oxymoron	Paradoxical justaposition of words that seem to contradict one another: peaceful revolution, the blind can truly see, etc.	16
6807899844	Parallelism	Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses.	17
6807914118	Periodic sentence	A sentence whose main clause (an independent clause) appears right before the period.	18
6807926474	Cumulative sentence	Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on.	19
6807940587	Rhetorical question	A figure of speech in the form of a question posed for effect rather than for actually getting an answer. What's in your wallet?	20
6807953308	Ad hominem attack	A logical fallacy or weakness in an argument that occurs when the arguer resorts to character assassination rather than a legitimate debate of ideas.	21
6807970909	Ad populum	The fallacy known as the band wagon: come on! Everyone is doing it!	22
6807982601	Appeal to False Authority	A fallacy in which someone famous who has no expertise to speak on an issue is cited as an authority.	23
6808001294	Either/or	Another fallacy in which the speaker or author argues that only two choices exist--and both are extreme	24
6808015752	Straw man	A fallacy that occurs when a speaker or writer deliberately chooses an oversimplified example to ridicule or refute an opponent's idea.m	25
6808035219	SOAPS	Subject Occasion. Audience Purpose Speaker	26
6808047769	Polemic	An aggressive argument that refuses to concede that other arguments might have merit	27
6808067809	Compound sentence	A sentence that includes at least 2 independent clauses joined by a conjunction	28
6808084211	Complex sentence	A sentence that contains a Dependent and an independent clause: "If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."	29
6808105232	Analogy	A comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things	30
6808121274	Annotation	Taking notes on a text	31
6808128553	Anecdote	A brief story used to illustrate a point	32
6808138494	Diction	A speaker or writer's choice of words. Archaic diction is old-fashioned or obsolete words.	33
6808158508	Figurative Language	Nonliteral language that evokes strong imagery: similes, metaphors, personification, paradox, hyperbole (overstatement), understatement. Irony.	34
6808181450	Hyperbolr	Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis or to produce a comic or ironic effect. Nantucket!!!	35
6808204600	Tone	A speaker's attitude towards her subject as conveyed by the speaker's stylistic and rhetorical choices.	36