AP Language Vocabulary Flashcards

8808960641	polemic	Greek for hostile, Aggressive arguments that attempts to establish superiority of one opinion over all others	0
8808973708	Polysyndeton	Deliberate use of multiple conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words	1
8808988580	Point of view	perspective the work is told from	2
8808999092	First Person	told from the narrator's point of view, using "I", sometimes deemed unreliable due to inability to see the "Big Picture" or are biased	3
8809016372	Second person	Told from the reader's point of view, using "you", cast the reader as a character in the narrative	4
8809029326	Third person	Narrator is not a character, but sees the world through only one character's eyes and thoughts	5
8809033061	Post hoc ergo propter hoc	This is a conclusion that assumes that if 'A' occurred after 'B' then 'B' must have caused 'A.'	6
8809049117	Propoganda	Spread of ideas and information to further a cause, can be seen negatively as the spread of lies, rumors, disinformation, and scare tactics	7
8809088035	pun	Play on words that derives its humor from the replacement of one word with another that has a similar pronunciation or spelling but a different meaning	8
8809103357	purpose	Goal the speaker wants to recieve	9
8809110994	qualified argument	an argument that is not absolute; it acknowledges an opposing view and refutes it with a stronger case for their own position	10
8809114896	Qualifier	words used to temper a claim and make it less absolute (I.e. Usually, probably, maybe, in most cases, and most likely)	11
8809129681	Qualitative evidence	Evidence supported by reason, tradition, or precedent	12
8809140821	Quantitative Evidence	Evidence of this sort can be measured, cited, counted, or otherwise represented in numerics	13
8809164404	Rebuttal	A counterargument, especially in debate	14
8809169876	Red Herring	A fallacy that introduces an irrelevant issue to divert attention from the subject under discussion	15
8809173574	Reservation	Terms and Conditions necessitated by the qualifier as exposed in the Toulmin model	16
8809184600	Rhetoric	Finding a way to persuade an audience	17
8809255773	Rhetorical Appeals	The use of emotional, ethical, and logical arguments to persuade in writing or speaking	18
8809261556	Rhetorical Triangle	author, audience, purpose	19
8809266678	Rhyme	correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines (especially final sounds)	20
8809269553	Slant Rhyme	pairs are similar but not exactly the same	21
8809269554	End Rhyme	Rhyme at the end of two or more lines of poetry	22
8809275566	Eye Rhyme	Works because the words look the same	23