AP English Language Flashcards

13983346800	Modes of discourse	Exposition Narration Description Argumentation	0
13983374226	Rhetorical strategies	example, contrast, comparison, definition, cause, effect, process, analysis/division, classification	1
13984488504	Rhetorical structure	strategies to convey the purpose of the piece	2
13984503226	Example	Example is a specific event, person, or detail of an idea cited and/or developed to support or illustrate a thesis or topic	3
13984521329	Contrast/Comparison	A method of presenting similarities and differences between or among at least two persons, places, things, ideas	4
13984556849	Contrast/Comparison organization	Subject by subject Point by point Combination	5
13984562952	Cause and effect	Establishes a relationship: B is the result of A. Can emphasize the cause or the effect, or be treated equally. It can detail the single cause with many effects, or several cause with a single effect, or any combination.	6
13984626213	Classification	Separates items into major categories and details the characteristics of each group and hwy each member of the group is placed within the category.	7
13984647563	Process	Process is simply "how to" do something or how something is done. Process can have one of two purposes: instruct or inform. Chronological order.	8
13984676867	Definition	Definition identifies the class to which a specific term belongs and those characteristics which make it different from all the other items in that class.	9
13984840171	Narration	Nothing more than storytelling. A beginning, middle and an end, but there's a point to it	10
13984891355	Description	Writing that appeals to the senses. It can be objective, scientific, clinical, impressionistic.	11