AP Language Test #1 Flashcards
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| 7706263990 | rhetorical analysis | the careful study of the compositional elements and techniques intended to help interpret a given work. | 0 | |
| 7706534570 | rhetoric | the art of effective or persuasiveness speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other computational techniques. | 1 | |
| 7706557596 | rhetorical triangle | Ethos goes at the top with speaker. Logos goes with subject on the bottom left. Pathos goes with audience on the bottom right. |  | 2 |
| 7706590024 | Aristotle's Triangle | another name for the rhetorical triangle. | 3 | |
| 7706600581 | annotation | footnotes marked with small numbers that give further clues. | 4 | |
| 7706604470 | genre | a term used by composition and literature teachers to refer to form specifically forms that have common feature and follow certain conventions of style, presentations, and subject matter. | 5 | |
| 7706614445 | genre sub-categories | short story, novel, the tragedy and the comedy the lyric and epic poem. | 6 | |
| 7706621397 | footnotes | footnotes are to help with difficult words, allusions, and references. They provide information about people, places, works, theories, and other unfamiliar that the original audience may have known. | 7 | |
| 7706632070 | convention | practices or customs commonly used in a genre-like a handshake for a social introduction or a eulogy at a funeral. | 8 | |
| 7706638270 | critical reading strategies | preview the essay write in the margin analyse the illustrations summarize the essay keep a reading journal use the study questions reread the essay | 9 | |
| 7706667814 | MLA citations | last name, first name. "title." source(italics), date of publication, url. acccessed date. list all sources alphabetically you must list all sources that you have cited in your text use a hanging indent. | 10 | |
| 7721395950 | Argument | an arguement can be any text- written, spoken, or visual- that expresses a point of view. | 11 | |
| 7721407810 | Why is language inherently persuasive? | because even if all you say is hello, you are indirectly arguing that you deserve a response. | 12 | |
| 7721416148 | Argument purposes | To inform, convince, explore, make descions, meditate or pray. | 13 | |
| 7721428184 | Persuasion vs Propoganda | Persuasion is used to describe writing that is aggressively designed to change opinions through the use of reason. Propoganda is writing that sets out to persuade at all costs- abandoning reason, fairness, and truth altogether. | 14 | |
| 7721453455 | Rogerian Argument | Based on approaching audiences in nonthreatening ways and finding common ground and establishing trust with those who disagree about issues. Win-win! | 15 | |
| 7721500523 | emotion bridge | Used when writers want to use emotions to connect with readers to assure them that you understand their experiences and to help readers identify with your experiences. | 16 | |
| 7721520715 | Sustaining an argument | emotional appeals, pictures. | 17 | |
| 7721539827 | Why is it difficult to argue about issues such as rape, abortion and gun control? | The arguements lack logic; they are all emotion. | 18 | |
| 7721546196 | Why use humor? | It helps lighten up the topic and connects with the reader. | 19 | |
| 7721552386 | Difference between humor and ridicule? | Humor is an emotional appeal meant to be funny, without offendinding anyone and ridicule is when humor is taken to far and is aimed at a particular target; intended to put down. | 20 | |
| 7721818900 | Why do authors use emotional arguements? | They want to connect with the reader, invoke emotions and have the reader sympathize with them. | 21 | |
| 7721818901 | SOAPSTone | Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Speaker, Tone | 22 |