AP Language Chapter 1 Flashcards

4817947834	Aristotelian Triangle	A diagram that illustrates the interrelationship between speaker, audience, and subject in determining a text	0
4817947835	Audience	The listener, reader, or viewer of a text	1
4817947836	Concession	An acknowledgement that an opposing argument may be true or reasonable	2
4817947837	Connotation	Meanings or Associations that readers have with a word beyond its dictionary definition, or denotation.	3
4817947838	Context	The circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and events surrounding a text	4
4817947839	Counterargument	An opposing argument to the one that a writer is putting forward.	5
4817947840	Occasion	The time and place a speech is given or a piece is written.	6
4817947841	Persona	Greek for "mask". The face or character that a speaker shows to his audience.	7
4817947842	Polemic	Greek for "Hostile". An aggressive argument the superiority of one opinion over all others.	8
4817947843	Propaganda	The spread of Ideas or Information to further a cause.	9
4817947844	Purpose	The goal the speaker wants to achieve	10
4817947845	Refutation	A denial of the validity of an opposing argument	11
4817947846	Rhetorical Appeals	Rhetorical techniques used to persuade the audience by emphasising what they find most important or compelling	12
4817947847	Rhetorical Triangle	A diagram that illustrates the interrelationship between speaker, audience, and subject in determining a text	13
4817947848	SOAPS	A mnemonic device that stands for Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, and Speaker.	14
4817947849	Speaker	The person or group who creates a text.F	15
4817947850	Subject	The topic of a text	16
4817947851	Text	any cultural product that can be "read"- meaning not just consumed and comprehended, but investigated.	17
4817947852	Pathos	Greek for "suffering" or "experience". Speakers appeal to pathos to emotionally motivate their audience.	18
4817947853	Ethos	Greek for "Character". Speakers appeal to Ethos to demonstrate that they are Credible and Trustworthy to speak on a given topic.	19
4817947854	Logos	Greek for "Embodied thought". Speakers appeal to logos, or reason, by offering clear rational ideas, and using specific details, examples, facts, statistics, or expert testimony to back them up.	20
4817947855	Rhetoric	"The faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion". In other words, it's the art of finding ways to persuade an audience.	21
4817947856	Greek word for logos	embodied thought	22
4817947857	greek word for pathos	suffering, experience	23
4817947858	greek word for ethos	character	24
4817947859	greek word for polemic	hostile	25
4817947860	greek word for persona	mask....... The face or character that a speaker shows to his or her audience.	26
4817952784	Rhetoric	"the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion." Persuasive	27
4817983047	Text	Cultural products that can be read and investigated	28
4818089920	Audience	The listener, viewer, or reader of a text	29
4818094544	Subject	topic	30
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