ap language rhetoric terms Final set Flashcards

6651734652	allegory	A literary work that portrays abstract ideas concretely.	0
6651734653	alliteration	Repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of several words in sequence.	1
6651734656	anaphora	Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines.	2
6651734670	audience	the listener, viewer, or reader of a text	3
6651734671	backing	In the Toulmin model, backing consists of further assurances or data without which the assumption lacks authority.	4
6651734673	bias	a prejudice or preconceived notion that presents a person from approaching a topic in a neutral or a objective way	5
6651734685	concession	an acknowledgement that the opposing argument may be true or reasonable	6
6651734688	context	the circumstances, atmosphere, and events surrounding a text	7
6651734691	cumulative sentence	completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on	8
6651734695	ekphrasis	comments on another genre	9
6651734698	epigram	a short, witty statement designed to surprise an audience or reader	10
6651734699	epigraph	a quotation preceding a work of literature that helps set the text's mood or suggest its themes	11
6651734701	eulogy	a poem, speech, or another work written in great praise of someone or something, usually a person no longer living	12
6651734716	verbal irony	a figure of speech that occurs when a speaker or character says one thing but means something else or when what is said is the opposite of what is expected	13
6651734726	mood	the feeling or atmosphere created by a text	14
6651734732	oxymoron	a paradox made up of two seemingly contradictory words.	15
6651734734	passive voice	when the subject doesn't act but rather is acted upon.	16
6651734736	periodic sentence	the main clause of the sentence is withheld until the end.	17
6651734739	polemic	an aggressive argument that tries to establish the superiority of one opinion over all others; this generally does not concede that opposing arguments have any merit.	18
6651734742	propaganda	the spread of ideas and information to further a cause.	19
6651734746	qualifier	words like usually, probably, maybe, in most cases, and most likely, that are used to temper claims to make them less absolute.	20
6651734747	qualitative evidence	supported by reason, tradition, or precedent.	21
6651734748	quantitative evidence	includes things that can be measured, cited, counted, or otherwise represented in numbers--for instance, statistics, surveys, polls, and census information.	22
6651734749	rebuttal	gives voice to possible objections.	23
6651734761	stance	a speaker's attitude toward the audience	24
6651734765	symbol	a setting, an object, or an event in a story that carries more than literal meaning and therefore represents something significant to understanding the meaning of a work of literature.	25
6651734770	tone	a speaker's attitude toward the subject as conveyed by the speaker's stylistic and rhetorical choices.	26
6651734772	trope	artful diction; a figure of speech such as metaphor, simile, hyperbole, metonymy or synecdoche	27
6651734775	wit	use of laughter, humor, irony, and satire in the confirmation or refutation of an argument.	28
6651734776	zeugma	use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings.	29