AP LANGUAGE GLOSSARY Flashcards

15016148192	rhetoric	1. Language that is used to persuade 2. The art of discipline that deals with the use of discourse, either spoke or written, to inform, persuade, or motivate an attitude	0
15016148193	assertion/claim	1. The act of asserting 2. Something declared or stated, often with no support or attempt at proof	1
15016148194	argument	A statement that consists of at least one main interpretive assertion/claim that is supported by evidence	2
15016148195	diction	word choice	3
15016148196	syntax	Sentence structure	4
15016148197	simple sentence	a sentence that contains a subject, a verb, and a completed thought	5
15016148198	allusion	A short informal reference to a famous person or event (The best sources are literature history, Greek myth, and the Bible) this is a rhetorical technique	6
15016148199	ebb	A period of decline or diminution	7
15016148200	emphatic	forceful and definite in expression or action	8
15016148201	anaphora	Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, sentences, phrases or paragraph. This is a rhetorical technique	9
15016148202	purpose of text	Why has the piece been written? What messages does it send? What themes does it have?	10
15016148203	Classical Rhetorical Theory	Aristotle said if you write anything there are three things that will influence the text. 1. Speaker- author, composer, the person doing the writing 2. Audience- a different audience requires different textual features 3. Subject- the thing you are writing about	11