AP Language Terms Flashcards
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| 10882069439 | rhetoric | the art of finding ways to persuade an audience | 0 | |
| 10882069440 | context | the circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and events surrounding a text | 1 | |
| 10882069441 | occasion | the time and place a speech is given or a piece is written | 2 | |
| 10882069442 | rhetorical Triangle (Aristotelian Triangle) | a diagram that illustrates the interrelationship among the speaker, audience, and subject in determining a text | 3 | |
| 10882069443 | persona | the face or character a speaker shows to his or her audience | 4 | |
| 10882069444 | rhetorical appeals | Rhetorical techniques used to persuade an audience by emphasizing what they find most important or compelling. (ethos, pathos, logos) | 5 | |
| 10882069445 | ethos | Speakers appeal to this to demonstrate that they are credible and trustworthy to speak on a given topic; established by both who you are and what you say. | 6 | |
| 10882069446 | pathos | Speakers appeal to this to emotionally motivate their audience; might play on the audience's values, desires, hopes, fears, or prejudices. | 7 | |
| 10882069447 | logos | Speakers appeal to this by offering clear rational ideas and using specific details, examples, facts, statistics, or expert testimony. | 8 | |
| 10882069448 | subject | The topic; what the text is about. | 9 | |
| 10882069449 | audience | The listener, reader, or viewer of a text. Texts may have more than one. | 10 | |
| 10882069450 | purpose | The goal the speaker wants to achieve. | 11 | |
| 10882069451 | speaker | The person or group who creates the text. | 12 | |
| 10882069452 | tone | A speaker's attitude toward the subject conveyed by the speaker's stylistic and rhetorical choices. | 13 | |
| 10882069453 | bias | (n) A prejudice or preconceived notion that prevents a person from approaching a topic in a neutral or an objective way. | 14 | |
| 10882069454 | biased | (adj) Unfairly prejudiced for or against someone or something. | 15 | |
| 10882069455 | subjective | Biased by individual opinion or experience. | 16 | |
| 10882069456 | objective | Not influenced by personal feelings or bias. | 17 | |
| 10882069457 | denotation | What the text literally says. | 18 | |
| 10882069458 | connotation | The feeling a text evokes. | 19 |