AP Language Unit 3 Flashcards

9791490847	Active Voice	the subject of the sentence performs the verb	0
9791490848	Anecdote	a brief, revealing story about an individual person or incident	1
9791490849	Didactic	describes fiction, nonfiction, or poetry that teaches a lesson or moral	2
9791490850	Argument	a piece of reasoning with one or more premises and a conlusion	3
9791490851	Premises	statements offered as reasons to support a conclusion	4
9791490852	Unstated Premises	unexpressed reasons that support a conclusion; can be problematic if not easily assumed	5
9791490853	Conclusion	the main point being made; the end result of the argument	6
9791490854	Concession	an acceptance of at least part of an opposing argument	7
9791490855	Conditional Statement	an if-then statement that consists of two parts, an antecedent and a consequent; if _____, then _____	8
9791490856	Thesis	the sentence or groups of sentences that directly express the author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or proposition	9
9791490857	Inductive Argument	argument in which premises are intended to only be so strong that, if true, it is unlikely that the conclusion is false	10
9791490858	Deductive Argument	argument in which the premises are intended to be so strong that, if true, it would be impossible for the conclusion to be false	11
9791490859	Valid Argument	argument in which the conclusion logically follows the premises	12
9791490860	Sound Argument	argument in which both the premises are true and the conclusion logically follows the premises	13
9791490861	Contradiction	occurs when one asserts two mutually exclusive or incompatible statements	14
9791490862	Counterexample	an example that opposes a generalization, thus proving it false	15