AP Language and Composition: An Introduction to Rhetoric Flashcards

7266110433	Rhetoric	the faculty of discovering in any particular case all of the available means of persuasion.	0
7266110434	Texts	cultural products that can be read and investigated-- both visual and written messages	1
7266110435	Occasion	the time and place the text was written or spoken	2
7266110436	Context	the circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and events surrounding the text: Writers always write in response to a rhetorical situation (time, place, circumstances; context) that affects their decisions about what they say and how they say it.	3
7266110437	Purpose	the goal the speaker wants to achieve	4
7266110438	Speaker	the person or group who creates the text	5
7266110440	Audience	the listener, viewer, or reader of a text or performance, there may be multiple audiences	6
7266110441	Subject	the topic	7
7266110442	SOAPS	Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, and Speaker. A mnemonic device that offers a practical way to approach the concept of the rhetorical situation	8
7266110443	Rhetorical Appeals	the tools of rhetoric to persuade an audience: Ethos, Logos, and Pathos	9
7266110444	Ethos	demonstrate that a speaker is credible and trustworthy	10
7266110445	Logos	reason, speakers appeal to logos by offering clear, rational ideas	11
7266110449	Pathos	an appeal to emotions, values, desires, and hopes on the one hand or fears and prejudices on the other	12
7266110450	Persona	the role, attitude, personality a writer assumes in order to achieve a literary purpose	13
7295295465	Rhetorical Triangle	The relationship between the speaker/writer, audience and the subject/purpose	14
7295302758	Traditional Canons of Rhetoric	invention, arrangement, style, memory, delivery	15
7295305220	Invention	how writers generate their ideas so that they are most effective for the audience	16
7295311204	Arrangement	organization that will lead to an effective text : introduction, statement of facts, division, proof, refutation, conclusion	17
7295317777	Exordium (introduction)	the part of an argument that introduces the reader to the subject under discussion, draws the reader in by piquing interest	18
7295326988	Narratio (statement of Facts)	provides factual information and background material on the subject; logos and some pathos	19
7295333618	Partitio (division)	outlines what will follow	20
7295359742	Confirmatio (Proof)	development needed to make the writer's case; evidence	21
7295362192	Refutatio (Refutation)	addresses the counterargument	22
7295397067	counterargument	an opposing argument to the one a writer is putting forward	23
7295399382	Peroratio (conclusion)	reminds reader of ethos, pathos, answers the "so what" question -	24
7295403261	style	choices writers make with sentences and words; artful expression of ideas	25
7295406413	Memory	writer taps into the "cultural memory" of their audience; also, what devices will the writer use to help his/her audience remember the text and its message	26
7295410404	Modes of writing	an organizational method for presenting information in a text (narration, cause and effect,)	27
7295417116	genre	what type of method of delivery: letter, speech, essay,	28
7295439249	didls	diction, imagery details, language, syntax	29
7295440593	diction	A writer's or speaker's choice of words	30
7296340492	imagery	Language/Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	31
7296347830	details	the facts given by the author or speaker as support for the attitude or tone	32
7296352151	figurative language	Words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation: metaphors, similes, personification, symbols, hyperbole	33
7296361259	syntax	the way words are put together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences	34
7313301799	tone	an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience	35