AP Language Rhetorical Strategies Flashcards

10751514085	Allusion	Reference to a famous historical, Biblical, mythological, or literary figure or event.	0
10751518553	Qualifier	Words or phrases that limit the scope of a claim	1
10751526863	Pathos	Persuasion through appeals to the audience's emotions	2
10751531883	Syllogism	In formal logic, a structure of deductive logic in which correctly formed major and minor premises lead to a necessary conclusion	3
10751544419	Logos	Persuasion by means of logic or reasoning	4
10751548970	Arrangement	Form/Structure/Organization	5
10751551397	Argument	A spoken, written, or visual text that expresses a point of view; the central point a text is making; a reason or set of reasons given with the aim of persuading others that that an action or idea is right or wrong	6
10751564052	Claim	A statement that asserts a belief or truth	7
10751571642	Mediated Audience	An audience that is not physically present, but that is affected by the speaker's message	8
10751576639	Ethos	Persuasion through convincing the audience of one's moral character	9
10751582368	Exergense	What prompts the speaker to speak at this particular point in time	10
10751586348	Metaphor	A comparison between two objects without using the words like or as	11
10751595978	Deductive reasoning	Reasoning from general to specific	12
10751601163	Inductive reasoning	Reasoning from specific to general	13
10751606377	Simile	A comparison between two items in using the words like or as	14
10751608918	Purpose	What the speaker wants the audience to feel while listening; what he/she wants the audience to do after listening	15
10751615142	Immediate audience	The audience that is physically present when a speech is delivered	16
10751617757	Form	The genre or type of text	17
10751619796	Analyse	Identifying the features of a text and explaining how the author uses these to develop the meaning or to achieve a particular effect	18
10751626015	Tone	The writer's attitude toward his/her subject	19
10751630969	Alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant letters (or sounds) in two or more different words across successive sentences, clauses, or phrases.	20
10751648063	Anaphora	Repetition of the same group of words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or paragraphs	21
10751652816	Anecdote	Short and amusing or interesting account depicting a real incident or person used to support a speaker's argument.	22
10751661507	Ad Homienm	Logical fallacy in which a writer attacks an opponent's character	23
10751665755	Expletive	Figure of emphasis in which a single word or short phrase, usually interrupting normal speech, is used to lend emphasis to the words on either side of the figure	24
10751680970	Asyndeton	Figure of omission in which normally occurring conjunctions are intentionally omitted in successive phrases, or causes	25
10751686253	Oxymoron	Figure that binds together TWO words that are ordinarily contradictory	26
10751696787	Personifcation	A figure of speech in which an animal, an object, a force of nature, or an idea is given human characteristics	27
10751701970	Antithesis	Rhetorical strategy in which contrasting ideas are intentionally juxtaposed, in adjacent phrases, clauses, or sentences	28
10751711935	Paraellism	Making two or more words, phrases, or clauses equal in part of speech or grammatical structure	29
10751720121	Non sequitur	An argument in which the conclusion does not follow from the premises	30
10751724643	Hyperbole	Intentional and extreme exaggeration	31
10751731418	Polysyndeton	Figure of addition and emphasis which intentionally employs a series of conjunctions not normally found in successive words, phrases, or clauses; the deliberate and excessive use of conjunctions in successive words or clauses.	32
10751739603	Enumeration	Figure of amplification in which a subject is divided into constituent parts or details, and may include a listing of causes, effects, problems, solutions, conditions, and consequences; the listing or detailing of the parts of something.	33
10751750170	Rhetorical Question	A question that is asked merely for effect with no obvious answer expected	34
10751755947	Diction	Word Choice	35
10751755948	Imagery	Word pictures designed to appeal to the senses	36
10751760625	Paradox	A seemingly contradictory or absurd statement that may actually express some truth	37
10751765943	Syntax	Sentence length, type, and structure	38
10751767258	Concession	Acknowledgement of other points of view in an argument by yielding or compromising in some way	39