AP words Flashcards

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