AP Language Vocabulary Words Flashcards

9940123489	Ad hominem	appealing to feelings or prejudices rather than intellect marked by or being on attack on an opponent's character	0
9940123490	Ad populum	a fallacious argument that concludes a proposition to be true because many or all people believe it, "if many believe, it is so."	1
9940123491	Alliteration	the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds	2
9940123492	Allusion	an implied or indirect reference especially in literature	3
9940123493	Analogy	similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar	4
9940123494	Audience	a group of ardent admirers or devotes	5
9940123495	Concession	the act or an instance of conceding	6
9940123496	Connotation	the suggesting of a meaning by a word apart from the things it explicitly names or describes	7
9940123497	Context	the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning	8
9940123498	Counterargument	a piece used in reckoning or in games	9
9940123499	Ethos	the distinguishing character, sentiment, moral nature, or guiding beliefs of a person, group or institution	10
9940123500	Logos	the divine wisdom manifest in the creation, government and redemption	11
9940123501	Occasion	a state of affairs that provides a ground or reason	12
9940123502	Pathos	an element in experience or in artistic representation	13
9940123503	Persona	a character assumed by an author in a written work	14
9940123504	Polemic	an aggressive attack on or refutation of the opinions or principles	15
9940123505	Propaganda	a congregation of the Roman curia having jurisdiction over missionary territories and related institutions	16
9940123506	Refutation	to prove wrong by argument or evidence	17
9940123507	Rhetoric	the art of speaking or writing effectively/ communication/ persuasion	18
9940123508	Rhetorical appeal	rhetorical techniques used to persuade an audience by emphasizing what they find most important or compelling	19
9940123509	Rhetorical triangle	a diagram that illustrates the interrelationship among the speaker, audience and subject in determining a text	20
9940123510	SOAPS	a mnemonic device that stands for subject, occasion, audience, purpose and speaker	21
9940123511	Speaker	the person or group who creates a text	22
9940123512	Subject	the topic of a text	23