Rhetorical Devices - AP Language & Composition Flashcards

13835603484	ethos	appealing to credibility or character usually through building trust	0
13835603485	pathos	appealing to emotions usually by focusing on values or beliefs	1
13835603486	logos	appealing to common sense or logical reasoning usually by using data or statistics	2
13835603487	kairos	the timelinness of an argument in order for it to be successful	3
13835603488	rhetorical analysis	an essay that breaks a work of non-fiction into parts and then explains how the parts work together to create a certain effect—whether to persuade, entertain or inform	4
13835603489	audience	a particular group at which a film, book, advertising campaign, etc., is aimed	5
13835603490	diction	the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing	6
13835603491	tone	the general attitude of an author, place, piece of writing, situation, etc.	7
13835603492	mood	a temporary state of mind or feeling	8
13835603493	effect	a change that is a result or consequence of an action or other cause	9
13835603494	syntax	the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language	10
13835603495	author's purpose	a writer's reason for or intent in writing that falls into one or more of the these categories: inform, persuade, entertain	11
13835603496	parallelism	the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc.	12
13835603497	repetition	a word, a phrase or a full sentence, or a poetical line mentioned two or more times to emphasize its significance in the entire text	13
13835603498	antithesis	two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect	14
13835603499	simile	a direct comparison, showing similarities between two different things using "like" or "as"	15
13835603500	metaphor	an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated, but which share some common characteristics	16
13835603501	personification	a thing - such as an idea or an animal - is given human attributes	17
13835603502	allusion	a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance	18
13835603503	understatement	something said in a restrained way for ironic contrast	19
13835603504	paradox	a statement that contradicts itself	20
13835603505	oxymoron	two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect	21
13835603506	synecdoche	a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part	22
13835603507	pun	a humorous play on words	23
13835603508	irony	incongruity between what might be expected and what occurs	24
13835603509	alliteration	use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word	25
13835603510	aphorism	a statement of truth or opinion expressed in a concise and witty manner	26
13835603511	symbol	something visible that represents something invisible	27
13835603512	sarcasm	witty language used to convey minor insults	28
13835603513	maxim	a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits	29
13835603514	juxtaposition	two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts	30
13835603515	anaphora	repetition of a word or phrase to begin successive clauses	31
13835603516	inductive reasoning	offering evidence and then ending with a claim, or moving from specific instances into a generalized conclusion	32
13835603517	deductive	offering a claim followed by evidence to support the claim, or moving from specific observations to broader generalizations and theories	33
13835603518	invective	abusive language used to express blame or censure	34
13835603519	rhetorical question	a statement that is not supposed to be answered	35
13835603520	hyperbole	extreme exaggeration	36
13835603521	connotation	a meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly	37
13835603522	denotation	the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression	38
13835603523	epiphany	the moment in the story when someone achieves realization, awareness or a feeling of knowledge after which events are seen through the prism of this new light in the story	39
13835603524	anadiplosis	repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next	40
13835603525	ambiguity	the quality of being open to more than one interpretation	41
13835603526	archaism	the use of an outdated expression	42
13835603527	didactic	instructive, especially excessively	43
13835603528	chiasmus	words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form	44