AP English Language Flashcards

14589848486	rhetorical triangle	A diagram that illustrates the interrelationship among the speaker, audience, and subject in determining a text.	0
14589848487	audience	One's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed.	1
14589848488	concession	used in argumentative writing, where one acknowledges a point made by one's opponent	2
14589848489	connotation	an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.	3
14589848490	context	The circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and events surrounding a text.	4
14589848491	counterargument	A challenge to a position; an opposing argument	5
14589848492	ethos	credibility	6
14589848493	logos	Appeal to logic	7
14589848494	occasion	the time and place a speech is given or a piece is written	8
14589848495	pathos	Appeal to emotions	9
14589848496	persona	an individual's characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting	10
14589848497	polemic	controversy; argument; verbal attack	11
14589848498	propaganda	Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause.	12
14589848499	purpose	the goal the speaker wants to achieve	13
14589848500	refutation	a denial of the validity of an opposing argument	14
14589848501	rhetoric	the art of using language effectively and personal	15
14589848502	rhetorical appeals	Rhetorical techniques used to persuade an audience by emphasizing what they find most important or compelling. The three major appeals are to ethos (character), logos (reason), and pathos (emotion).	16
14589848503	SOAPS	Subject, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Speaker	17
14589848504	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	18
14589848505	subject	The topic of a text. What the text is about.	19
14589848506	the text	While this term generally means the written word, in the humanities it has come to mean any cultural product that can be "read" - meaning not just consumed and comprehended, but investigated. This includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, political cartoons, fine art, photography, performances, fashion, cultural trends, and much more.	20
14589848507	alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant soundscapes	21
14589848508	allusion	A reference to another work of literature, person, or event	22
14589848509	anaphora	the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses	23
14589848510	antimetabole	Repetition of words in reverse order	24
14589848511	antithesis	the direct opposite, a sharp contrast	25
14589848512	archaic diction	old-fashioned or outdated choice of words	26
14589848513	asyndeton	omission of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses.	27
14589848514	cumulative sentence	sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on	28
14589848515	hortative sentence	sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action	29
14589848516	imperative sentence	A sentence that requests or commands.	30
14589848517	inversion	inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order)	31
14589848518	juxtaposition	Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts	32
14589848519	metaphor	A comparison without using like or as	33
14589848520	oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.	34
14589848521	parralelism	the repetition of words or phases that have similar grammatical structures	35
14589848522	periodic sentence	sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end	36
14589848523	personification	A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes	37
14589848524	rhetorical question	A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer	38
14589848525	synedoche	figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole	39
14589848526	zeugma	use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings	40
14589848527	active voice	The subject of the sentence performs the action	41
14589848528	anecdote	a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or personal	42
14589848529	anecdote	a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or personal	43
14589848530	diction	A writer's or speaker's choice of wordsmith	44
14589848531	colloquial	characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation	45
14589848532	denotation	The dictionary definition of a word	46
14589848533	jargon	special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand.	47
14589848534	vernacular	everyday language	48
14589848535	imagery	Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)	49
14589848536	irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	50
14589848537	verbal irony	A figure of speech in which what is said is the opposite of what is meant	51
14589848538	dramatic irony	when a reader is aware of something that a character isn't	52
14589848539	situational irony	An outcome that turns out to be very different from what was expected	53
14589848540	mood	Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader	54
14589848541	oxymoron	a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction	55
14589848542	pacing	the movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another	56
14589848543	paradox	A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.	57
14589848544	syntax	Sentence structure	58
14589848545	tone	Attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character	59