Ap Flashcards

10653395114	Alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds	0
10653395115	Allusion	A reference to another work of literature, person, or event	1
10653395116	Anaphora	repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines	2
10653395117	Antimetabole	Repetition of words in reverse order	3
10653395118	Speaker	A term used for the author, speaker, or the person whose perspective (real or imagined) is being advanced in a speech or piece of writing	4
10653395119	subject	The topic of a text. What the text is about.	5
10653395120	text	written words	6
10653395121	audience	the listener, viewer, or reader of a text	7
10653395122	Connotation	All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests	8
10653395123	context	Words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning.	9
10653395124	concession	A reluctant acknowledgment or yielding.	10
10653395125	Counterargument	an opposing argument to the one a writer is putting forward	11
10653395126	Ethos	credibility	12
10653395127	Logos	an appeal based on logic or reason	13
10653395128	Pathos	Appeal to emotion	14
10653395129	Personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	15
10653395130	periodic sentence	sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end	16
10653395131	rhetorical question	figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer	17
10653395132	Synecdoche	a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa	18
10653395133	Zeugma	use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings	19
10653395134	occasion	the time and place a speech is given or a piece is written	20
10653395135	Persona	Greek for "mask." The face or character that a speaker shows to his or her audience.	21
10653395136	polemic	an aggressive argument against a specific opinion	22
10653395137	Propaganda	Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause.	23
10653395138	purpose	the goal the speaker wants to achieve	24
10653395139	Refutation	a denial of the validity of an opposing argument	25
10653395140	Rhetoric	the art of using language effectively and persuasively	26
10653395141	rhetorical appeals	ethos, pathos, logos	27
10653395142	rhetorical triangle	A diagram that illustrates the interrelationship among the speaker, audience, and subject in determining a text.	28
10653395143	SOAPS	Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject	29
10653395144	Antithesis	Direct opposite	30
10653395145	archaic diction	old-fashioned or outdated choice of words	31
10653395146	Asyndeton	omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words	32
10653395147	cummulative sentence	sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on	33
10653395148	hortative sentence	sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action	34
10653395149	imperative sentence	sentence used to command or enjoin	35
10653395150	Inversion	inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order)	36
10653395151	Juxtaposition	Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts	37
10653395152	Metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	38
10653395153	Oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	39
10653395154	Parallelism	similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	40