AP ENGLISH Flashcards
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| 14736411461 | context | Words, events, or circumstances that help determine meaning. | 0 | |
| 14736413103 | audience | the listener, viewer, or reader of a text | 1 | |
| 14736413105 | occasion | the time and place a speech is given or a piece is written | 2 | |
| 14736415246 | purpose | the goal the speaker wants to achieve | 3 | |
| 14736416558 | rhetorical appeals | the use of emotional, ethical, and logical arguments to persuade in writing or speaking | 4 | |
| 14736419313 | Ethos | credibility | 5 | |
| 14736423561 | Pathos | Appeal to emotion | 6 | |
| 14736425613 | Logos | an appeal based on logic or reason | 7 | |
| 14736427649 | rhetorical triangle | The relationship between the author, the audience, the text/message, and the context. | 8 | |
| 14736429350 | Personification | the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea | 9 | |
| 14736431315 | allusion | A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art | 10 | |
| 14736436008 | Juxtaposition | the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect. | 11 | |
| 14736454143 | Refutation | a denial of the validity of an opposing argument | 12 | |
| 14736456491 | Antithesis | Direct opposite | 13 | |
| 14736459911 | Conatation | an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning | 14 |