Rhetorical Vocabulary - AP Language and Composition Flashcards

8916234685	Rhetorical Appeals	Tools of rhetoric to persuade an audience.	0
8916234686	Context	The circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes and events surrounding the text.	1
8916234687	Logos	An appeal to logic or reason, using statistics and data in an argument.	2
8916234688	Persona	The difference between the person who speaks in real life and the role he plays when delivering the speech.	3
8916234689	Concession	Agreeing, especially to a counterargument.	4
8916234690	Counterargument	objections or opposing views to an article or speaker's argument.	5
8916234691	Occasion	The time and place an article talks about or takes place in.	6
8916234692	Connotation	An idea or feeling that a word invokes on a person.	7
8916234693	Ethos	An appeal to credibility or character in an argument.	8
8916234694	Pathos	An appeal to emotions in an argument.	9
8916234695	Propaganda	Information, usually biased, used to promote a political cause or point of view.	10
8916234696	Purpose	The reason someone wrote the article: main objective to change something	11
8916234697	Rhetoric	The faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion	12
8916234698	Refutation	To refuse a counterargument or other argument; deny its validity	13
8916234699	Polemic	A strong verbal or written attack on someone or something.	14
8916259948	Ad Hominem	appealing to personal considerations rather than to reason - usually taking the form of a personal attack on one's opponent.	15
8916270698	Allusion	passing reference or indirect mention	16
8916275005	Analogy	drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity	17
8916278573	Anaphora	repetition of a word or phrase to begin successive clauses	18
8916283525	Anecdote	short account of an incident	19
8916286104	Antecedent	a preceding occurrence or cause or event	20
8916288100	Antithesis	the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas for balance	21
8916291458	Apostrophe	an address to an absent or imaginary person	22
8916294260	Asyndenton	omission of conjunctions where they would normally be used	23
8916297826	Polysyndenton	using several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted (as in `he ran and jumped and laughed for joy')	24
8916306191	Caricature	a representation of a person exaggerated for comic effect	25
8916309498	Chiasmus	inversion in the second of two parallel phrases	26
8916314338	Diction	the manner in which something is expressed in words	27
8916317139	Ellipsis	omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences	28
8916321549	Epigram	a witty saying	29
8916323563	Epigraph	a quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing	30
8916329754	Euphemism	an inoffensive expression substituted for an offensive one	31
8916333579	Exposition	a systematic interpretation or explanation of a topic	32
8916338630	Generalization	the process of abstracting common properties of instances	33
8916341959	Hyperbole	extravagant exaggeration	34
8916345678	Idiom	expression whose meaning cannot be inferred from its words	35
8916349807	Sensory	involving or derived from the senses	36
8916353063	Implication	a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred	37
8916357920	Inference	drawing a conclusion on the basis of circumstantial evidence	38
8916360924	Invective	abusive language used to express blame or censure	39
8916363402	Inversion	the reversal of the normal order of words	40
8916366314	Jargon	technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject	41
8916368713	Juxtaposition	the act of positioning close together	42
8916383009	Litotes	understatement for rhetorical effect	43
8916386405	Malapropism	misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar	44
8916392008	Maxim	a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits	45
8916395773	Metaphor	a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity	46
8916397922	Metonym	substituting the name of a feature for the name of the thing	47
8916405607	non-sequitur	a reply that has no relevance to what preceded it	48
8916411237	Objectivity	judgment based on observable phenomena	49
8916417161	Oxymoron	conjoining contradictory terms	50
8916422428	Paradox	a statement that contradicts itself and remains true	51
8916425126	Parallelism	similarity by virtue of corresponding	52
8916430402	Paraphrase	express the same message in different words	53
8916435687	reductio ad absurdum	(reduction to the absurd) a disproof by showing that the consequences of the proposition are absurd; or a proof of a proposition by showing that its negation leads to a contradiction	54
8916437716	Resolution	the logical ending of a piece of writing, speech, or narrative	55
8916441488	Rhetoric	using language effectively to please or persuade	56
8916443934	Subjective	judgment based on individual impressions and feelings	57
8916460876	Syntax	the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences	58
8916462775	Zuegma	a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g., John and his license expired last week ) or to two others of which it semantically suits only one (e.g., with weeping eyes and hearts )	59