AP Language and Composition Flashcards

14664950550	Rhetoric	the art of using language effectively and persuasively	0
14664950551	Kairos	The opportune time and/or place to say or do the right/appropriate thing.	1
14664950552	Decorum	the use of a style that is appropriate to a subject, situation, speaker, and audience	2
14664951605	Audience	One's listener or readership; those to whom a speech or piece of writing is addressed.	3
14664951606	Ethos	the ethical appeal, means to convince an audience of the author's credibility or character.	4
14664951607	Pathos	Appeal to emotion	5
14664951608	Logos	an appeal based on logic or reason	6
14664951609	Alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds	7
14664952533	Hyperbole	exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.	8
14664952534	Metonymy	substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it (e.g. the Redcoats of the UK)	9
14664952535	Parellelism	similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses	10
14664952536	Anaphora	repetition of a word or phrase in successive phrases, clauses, or lines (often at the beginning of each, but not always)	11
14664952537	Irony	A contrast between expectation and reality	12
14664953660	Oxymoron	A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. (e.g. deafening silence)	13
14664953661	Rhetorical Question	A question asked merely for rhetorical effect and not requiring an answer	14
14664953662	Antithesis	opposites in clauses, phrases, words, etc (e.g. intro to A Tale of Two Cities)	15
14664953663	Litotes	A figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite. (e.g. I'm not as young as I used to be)	16
14664954658	Paradox	a rhetorical device that is made up of two opposite things and seems impossible or untrue but is actually possible or true	17
14664954659	Synecdoche	a rhetorical device by which a part of something actually refers to the whole (e.g. Milwaukee beat the Lakers)	18