AP Language vocabulary Flashcards

11247613560	analyze	to break down into parts	0
11247613561	Synthesis	Put an idea together based on multiple parts	1
11247613562	Well developed	Well throughout details	2
11247613563	coherent	Clear; make sense	3
11247613564	Speaker	The one who is delivering the type of writing	4
11247613565	occasion	The scenery	5
11247613566	audience	The one who is absorbing the information	6
11247613567	purpose	The reason why they are doing something	7
11247613568	Argument	Different points/sides	8
11247613569	Position	Certain side, claim, thesis, purpose	9
11247613570	Evidence	Information to back you up	10
11247613571	passage/excerpt	a section of text	11
11247613572	Rhetoric	effective writing or speaking	12
11247613573	rhetorical strategies	Covers figurative language like diction, syntax, etc.	13
11247613574	attitude	How speaker feels towards a subject	14
11247613575	Tone	How the writer is impacted	15
11247613576	Diction	word choice	16
11247613577	Syntax	Sentence structure	17
11247613578	cumulative sentence	sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on	18
11247613579	periodic sentence	sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end	19
11247613580	Appositive	A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun.	20
11247613581	Antecedent/reference	Before/(like they/she/he)	21
11247613582	Logos	logic	22
11247613583	Ethos	credibility	23
11247613584	Pathos	Appeal to emotion	24
11247613585	Claim/Thesis	a statement of the author's point of view	25
11247613586	authority	Information from authorities people, ex: doctors and scientists	26
11247613587	credibility	believability	27
11247613588	Style	A basic and distinctive mode of expression.	28
11247613589	Parallelism	similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	29
11247613590	Imagery	Words that paint a picture	30
11247613591	Irony	Something happens that you didn't expect	31
11247613592	formal	Sounding professional, ex: formal speech	32
11247613593	colloquial	How you speak to someone	33
11247613594	figurative language	writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally	34
11247613595	Metaphor	A comparison without using like or as; Something true but make it extreme	35
11247613596	Simile	A comparison using "like" or "as"	36
11247613597	Symbol	anything that stands for or represents something else	37
11247613598	Personification	the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea	38
11247613599	Hyperbole	extreme exaggeration; not true	39