AP English Language Comp Flashcards
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| 7224834741 | Rhetoric | study of effective speaking and writing and the art of persuasion | 0 | |
| 7224834742 | Kairos | the circumstances that open moments of opportunity | 1 | |
| 7224835088 | Decorum | requiring one's words and subject matter be aptly fit to each other, to the circumstances and occasion (kairos), the audience, and the speaker | 2 | |
| 7224835089 | Audience | oriented discourse is composed in light of those who will hear or read that discourse | 3 | |
| 7224835293 | Ethos | the persuasive appeal of one's character | 4 | |
| 7224835294 | Pathos | the appeal to emotion | 5 | |
| 7224835568 | Logos | the appeal to reason | 6 | |
| 7224835991 | Alliteration | repetition of the same letter or sound within nearby words most often repeated initial consonants | 7 | |
| 7224835992 | Anaphora | repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses, sentences, or lines | 8 | |
| 7224836571 | Antithesis | juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas | 9 | |
| 7224836572 | Ansyndecton | the omission of conjunctions between clauses, often resulting in a hurried rhythm or vehement effect | 10 | |
| 7224837098 | Epistrophe | ending a series of lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences with the same word or words | 11 | |
| 7224837099 | Hyperbole | rhetorical exaggeration | 12 | |
| 7224837386 | Irony | speaking in such a way as to imply the contrary of what one says, often for the purpose of derision, mockery, or jest | 13 | |
| 7224837517 | Litotes | deliberate understatement, especially when expressing a thought by denying its opposite | 14 | |
| 7224837850 | Metonymy | reference to something or someone by naming one of its attributes | 15 | |
| 7224838044 | Oxymoron | placing two ordinarily opposing terms adjacent to one another a compressed paradox | 16 | |
| 7224838045 | Paradox | a statement that is self-contradictory on the surface, yet seems to evoke a truth nonetheless | 17 | |
| 7224838183 | Parallelism | similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses | 18 | |
| 7224838346 | Polysyndecton | employing many conjunctions between clauses, often slowing the tempo or rhythm | 19 | |
| 7224839404 | Rhetorical Question | defined as any question asked for a purpose other than to obtain the information the question asks | 20 | |
| 7224839405 | Sarcasm | use of mockery, verbal taunts, or bitter irony | 21 | |
| 7224839998 | Synecdoche | a whole is represented by naming one of its parts (genus named for species), or vice versa (species named for genus) | 22 | |
| 7224840202 | Zeugma | describing when one part of speech (most often the main verb, but sometimes a noun) governs two or more other parts of a sentence (often in a series) | 23 |