AP words Flashcards
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14649219844 | Appeals | Am earnest request for aid, support, sympathy, mercy, etc.; entreaty; petition; plea (EX: The help offered for the class appeals to many students.) | 0 | |
14649219845 | Assessment | The evaluation or estimation of the nature, quality, or ability of someone or something (EX: The math assessment tested my algebra skills.) | 1 | |
14649219846 | audience | the listener, viewer, or reader of a text (EX: The movies audience mostly consisted of children.) | 2 | |
14649219847 | attitude | feelings, often influenced by our beliefs, that predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects, people, and events (EX: The loss of the game created a negative attitude throughout the team.) | 3 | |
14755879255 | context | The circumstances, atmosphere, attitudes, and events surrounding a text. (EX: The readers had to understand the context of the book in order to understand the meaning.) | 4 | |
14755879256 | occasion | the time and place a speech is given or a piece is written (EX: The speeches occasion helped with number of people that arrived.) | 5 | |
14755879257 | purpose | The goal the speaker wants to achieve (EX: The teacher had a unique purpose for talking to the students about cheating.) | 6 | |
14755879258 | Speaker | The person or group who creates a text. This might be a politician who delivers a speech, a commentator who writes an article, an artist who draws a political cartoon, or even a company that commissions an advertisement. (EX: The speaker in the church was an unexpected guest.) | 7 | |
14755879259 | Persona | Greek for "mask." The face or character that a speaker shows to his or her audience. (EX: The character had an evil persona.) | 8 | |
14755879260 | subject | The topic of a text. What the text is about. (EX: The subject of the book was climate change.) | 9 |