Rhetorical Vocabulary - AP Language and Composition Flashcards
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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 |