AP Lang Vocab Set: 6 Flashcards

10561231058	speaker	the person or group who creates a text	0
10561236440	stance	a speaker's attitude toward the audience	1
10561246665	straw man	A fallacy that occurs when a speaker chooses a deliberately poor or oversimplified example in order to ridicule and refute an idea.	2
10561250353	subject	The topic of a text. What the text is about.	3
10561252562	Syllogism	a logical structure that uses the major premise and minor premise to reach a necessary conclusion	4
10561258642	Synecdoche	figure of speech that uses a part to represent the whole	5
10561260578	Syntax	the arrangement of words into phrases, clauses, and sentences	6
10561266144	synthesize	combining two or more ideas in order to create something more complex in support of a new idea	7
10561273637	text	While this term generally means the written word, in the humanities it has come to mean any cultural product that can be "read" - meaning not just consumed and comprehended, but investigated. This includes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, political cartoons, fine art, photography, performances, fashion, cultural trends, and much more.	8
10561275247	Tone	A speaker's attitude toward the subject conveyed by the speaker's stylistic and rhetorical choices.	9
10561280186	Toulmin Model	An approach to analyzing and constructing arguments created by British philosopher Stephen Toulmin.	10
10561285096	Trope	Artful diction; from the Greek word for "turning," a figure of speech such as metaphor, simile, hyperbole, metonymy, or synecdoche.	11
10561288366	Understatement	a figure of speech in which something is presented as less important, dire, urgent, good, and so on, than it actually is, often for satiric or comical effect.	12
10561302213	warrant	In the Toulmin model, the warrant expresses the assumption necessarily shared by the speaker and the audience.	13
10561305741	wit	In rhetoric, the use of laughter, humor, irony, and satire in the confirmation or refutation of an argument.	14
10561309729	Zeugma	use of two different words in a grammatically similar way that produces different, often incongruous, meanings	15