AP Language and Composition Midterm Flashcards

5971068315	Rhetoric	Available means of persuasion	0
5971068316	Aristotle	Used a triangle to explain the relationship between audience, speaker and subject	1
5971068317	SOAPS	subject, occasion, audience, purpose, speaker	2
5971068318	Ethos	Appeal to character	3
5971068319	Logos	Appeal to reason through clear rational ideas, appeal to logic	4
5971068320	Pathos	Appeal to emotion	5
5971068321	The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses	Anaphora	6
5971068322	To place two concepts, characters, ideas, or places near or next to each other so that the reader will compare and contrast them	Juxtaposition	7
5971068323	Tone	A general character or attitude of a piece of writing toward a subject or an audience	8
5971068324	Indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance	Allusion	9
5971068325	Syntax	How words from different parts of speech are put together in order to convey a complete thought	10
5971068326	Intentionally eliminating conjunctions between phrases and I. The sentence yet maintaining the grammatical accuracy	Asyndeton	11
5971068327	Several coordinating conjunctions are used in succession in order to achieve an artistic effect	Polysyndeton	12
5971068328	The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same or similar in construction, sound, meaning or meter	Parallelism	13
5971068329	A number of words, usually three or more, that have the same first consonant sound, in the same sentence or phrase	Alliteration	14
5971068330	Comparison using like or as	Simile	15
5971068331	Comparison	Metaphor	16
5971068332	An arrangement of words addressing a non-existent person or an abstract idea in such a way as if it were present and capable of understanding feelings	Apostrophe	17
5971068333	Exaggerated statements or claims	Hyperbole	18
5971068334	Meaning that is implied by a word apart from its dictionary definition	Connotation	19
5971068335	Dictionary definition	Denotation	20
5971068336	A short and interesting story or an amusing event often proposed to support or demonstrate some point	Anecdote	21