AP Language: Patterns of Development Flashcards
As described in chapter 1 of The Language of Composition.
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| 8559519507 | Narration | Telling a story or recounting a series of events; crafting a story that supports your thesis. Usually chronological, with elements such as concrete detail, point of view, and dialogue. | 0 | |
| 8559519508 | Exemplification | Providing specific instances in support of general ideas. As one of the Rhetorical Modes of Essays, this mode can provide anecdotes that serve as examples to make a point or support a specific argument. Aristotle referred to this as "induction." | 1 | |
| 8559519509 | Description | A rhetorical mode based in the five senses. It aims to re-create, invent, or present something so that the reader can experience it. | 2 | |
| 8559519510 | Process Analysis | A rhetorical mode that explains how something works, how to do something, or how something was done. | 3 | |
| 8559519511 | Compare and Contrast | Two methods of development usually found together. Using them, a writer examines the similarities and differences between two things to reveal their natures. | 4 | |
| 8559519512 | Classification and Division | The sorting out of elements into classes or groups, or the separation of something into its parts. Used when a writer wants to break something down into its elements or group a number of things in order to analyze them. | 5 | |
| 8559519513 | definition | A concise explanation of the meaning of a word or phrase or symbol. | 6 | |
| 8559519514 | Cause and Effect | The reason something happens and the result of it happening. | 7 |