AP Lang Rhetorical Terms List #3 Flashcards
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| 6645108655 | abstract | words or phrased denoting ideas, qualities, and conditions that exist but cannot be seen. | 0 | |
| 6645120636 | ad populem argument | a fallacious argument that appeals to passions and prejudices of a group rather than its reason | 1 | |
| 6645127085 | allegory | the device of using a character and or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning | 2 | |
| 6645133990 | anaphora | the repetition of a group of words at the beginning of successive clauses | 3 | |
| 6645136521 | aphorism | a terse statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or moral principle | 4 | |
| 6645158242 | apostrophe | a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction like liberty or love | 5 | |
| 6645167109 | attitude | a writer's intellectual position or emotion regarding the subject of the writing | 6 | |
| 6645181646 | audience | the group for whom a work is intended | 7 | |
| 6645190429 | claim | the ultimate conclusion, generalization, or point, backed up by support | 8 | |
| 6645202486 | cliche | a stale image or expression, and the bane of good expository writing | 9 | |
| 6645210992 | comparison/contrast | a rhetorical mode used to develop essays that systematically match two items for similarities and differences | 10 | |
| 6645215397 | complex sentence | a sentence with one independent clause and one or more dependent clause | 11 | |
| 6645221996 | concrete | said of words or terms denoting objects or conditions that are palpable, visible, or otherwise evident to the senses. Opposite of abstract. | 12 | |
| 6645237314 | evidence | logical bases or supports for an assertion or idea | 13 | |
| 6645257229 | genre | the major category into which a literary word fits | 14 | |
| 6645277890 | inversion | the reversal of the normal order of words in a sentence to achieve some desired effect, usually emphasis | 15 | |
| 6645300991 | loose sentence | a type of sentence in which the main idea come first followed by dependent grammatical unite such as phrases and clauses | 16 | |
| 6645306351 | metonymy | a figure of speech in which the name of one object is substituted for that of another closely associated with it | 17 | |
| 6645329321 | periodic sentence | a sentence that presents its central meaning in a main clause at the end | 18 | |
| 6645339143 | process analysis | a type of development in writing that stresses how a sequence of steps produces a certain effect | 19 | |
| 6735459820 | rhetorical question | a question posed with no expectation of receiving an answer | 20 | |
| 6735468118 | synechdoche | a part of something used to refer to the whole | 21 | |
| 6735471385 | syntax | the order of words in a sentence and their relationships to each other | 22 | |
| 6735482200 | transition | words, phrases, sentences, or even paragraphs that indicate connections between the writer's ideas | 23 | |
| 6735490397 | unity | the characteristic of having all parts contribute to the overall effect | 24 |