AP Language & Composition Winter Final 2017 Flashcards
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| 8414100525 | rhetoric | the study and practice of communication that persuades, informs, inspires, or entertains target audiences in order to change or reinforce habits or actions | 0 | |
| 8414100526 | rhetorical situation | purpose, subject/context, occassion | 1 | |
| 8416376032 | rhetorical triangle | subject (context), speaker, audience | 2 | |
| 8416417264 | ethos | creditability, "character" | 3 | |
| 8416518213 | pathos | emotional appeal | 4 | |
| 8416524798 | logos | statistics, facts, info, structure | 5 | |
| 8416532339 | claim | the main assertion of an argument; the point of an argument backed up by support | 6 | |
| 8416547794 | reason | support for your claim | 7 | |
| 8416675725 | warrant | underlying assumptions that support your claim | 8 | |
| 8416692471 | counterargument | an opposing argument to the one a writer is putting forward | 9 | |
| 8417103337 | refutation | the part of an argument in which the speaker anticipates objections to the points being raised and counters them | 10 | |
| 8417110562 | thesis statement | a short statement that summarizes the main point or claim of an essay and is developed, supported, and explained in the text by means of examples and evidence | 11 | |
| 8425720905 | inductive reasoning | a logical process in which multiple premises are combined to obtain a specific conclusion; specific to general | 12 | |
| 8425723818 | deductive reasoning | a logical process in which a conclusion is based on the concordance of multiple premises; general to specific | 13 | |
| 8425733412 | syntax | the order of words in a sentence; sentence structure | 14 | |
| 8425736612 | fragment | incomplete sentence | 15 | |
| 8425746408 | run on | a grammatically faulty sentence in which two or more main or independent clauses are joined without a word to connect them or a punctuation mark to separate them | 16 | |
| 8425803340 | subordinate clause | a group of words containing a subject and a verb that cannot stand alone as a sentence | 17 | |
| 8425825407 | antithesis | the juxtaposition of opposing or contrasting words or ideas, in a parallel structure | 18 | |
| 8425838678 | parallelism | a set of similarly structured words, phrases or clauses that appears in a sentence or paragraph | 19 | |
| 8425844749 | oxymoron | juxtaposed words with seemingly opposite meanings | 20 | |
| 8425847258 | imagery | language that appeals to the senses | 21 | |
| 8425852857 | allusion | an indirect reference to another text or body of knowledge | 22 | |
| 8425860132 | anecdote | a brief narrative within a text to get audience's attention and/or support a claim | 23 | |
| 8425865189 | personification | the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions | 24 | |
| 8425898989 | metaphor | a figurative comparison of two unlike objects | 25 | |
| 8425910001 | connotation | the implied meaning of a word; a word's overtones of meaning | 26 | |
| 8425918654 | subjective | reflecting an individual's feelings, prejudice, or bias | 27 | |
| 8425937830 | objective | without personal bias or prejudice | 28 | |
| 8462223928 | introduction | 1. title, author name (last, first) (first sentence) 2. summary (2-3) 3. thesis statement (last sentence) | 29 | |
| 8462241534 | rhetorical analysis | gives devices and explain what effect it gives | 30 | |
| 8462260440 | body paragraph | 1. topic sentence (first sentence) - main idea in detail 2. evidence from text - set-up quote - quote - explain quote 3. transition - moving onto the next paragraph | 31 |