AP Language Vocabulary Words Flashcards

7245962868	Ad hominem	appealing to feelings or prejudices rather than intellect marked by or being on attack on an opponent's character	0
7245977006	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
7245983206	Alliteration	the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds	2
7245984592	Allusion	an implied or indirect reference especially in literature	3
7245991586	Analogy	similarity in some respects between things that are otherwise dissimilar	4
7245995585	Audience	a group of ardent admirers or devotes	5
7246001298	Concession	the act or an instance of conceding	6
7246015919	Connotation	the suggesting of a meaning by a word apart from the things it explicitly names or describes	7
7248998246	Context	the parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning	8
7340154487	Counterargument	a piece used in reckoning or in games	9
7340155853	Ethos	the distinguishing character, sentiment, moral nature, or guiding beliefs of a person, group or institution	10
7340162367	Logos	the divine wisdom manifest in the creation, government and redemption	11
7340166863	Occasion	a state of affairs that provides a ground or reason	12
7340174819	Pathos	an element in experience or in artistic representation	13
7340175890	Persona	a character assumed by an author in a written work	14
7340179834	Polemic	an aggressive attack on or refutation of the opinions or principles	15
7403081941	Propaganda	a congregation of the Roman curia having jurisdiction over missionary territories and related institutions	16
7403098228	Refutation	to prove wrong by argument or evidence	17
7403106660	Rhetoric	the art of speaking or writing effectively/ communication/ persuasion	18
7403114935	Rhetorical appeal	rhetorical techniques used to persuade an audience by emphasizing what they find most important or compelling	19
7478497603	Rhetorical triangle	a diagram that illustrates the interrelationship among the speaker, audience and subject in determining a text	20
7478503995	SOAPS	a mnemonic device that stands for subject, occasion, audience, purpose and speaker	21
7478516747	Speaker	the person or group who creates a text	22
7478523994	Subject	the topic of a text	23