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Stop! APEL Edition
This contains various amounts of things in APEL we have learned.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Logos | According to CNN, 59% of minority students in the East Side School District are more likely to earn scholarships. |
| Colloquial Expressions (Colloquialism) | Y'all come back soon, y'hear? |
| Low/ Informal diction | Whatcha gonna do bout it dawg? |
| Pathos | America is our motherland. We must be loyal and honor our home. |
| Post hoc, ergo propter hoc | If he got the answers right, you'll get the answers right. |
| Ad populum | Everyone smokes cigarettes, you should too. |
| Ad hominem | The author's claim is illogical, because she seems like a person who can't find factual evidence to support her claim. |
| Hyperbole | I'm so hungry, I could eat Ms. Lo and her cat! |
| Anaphora | We love argument analysis essays. We love rhetorical analysis essays. We love synthesis essays. |
| Interrupted Sentence | AP Lang students--assiduous, studious, ingenious-- were baffled at Ms. Lo's new book, "Dogs: A Man's Best friend". |
| Periodic sentence | We drove through the mysterious forest, sweaty hands slipping off the steering wheel, wide eyed, waiting for a beast to make it's appearance. |
| Diacope | You got it bud, you got it. |
| Ethos | Doctors all over the world recommend this as the #1 heartburn medicine. |
| Antimetabole | "Eat to live, not live to eat." |
| Anadiplosis | Ms. Lo loves cats. Cats are cool. |
| Aggregate | The _______________ number of students in this class is 30. |
| Artless | The child's ________ words made the adults chortle. |
| Aver | During weddings, the couple must ________ their love. |
| Terse | The student's speech was ________ less than five minutes long. |
| Consecrate | To kill vampires, the priest must __________ the water. |
| Castigate | You do this when someone's acting naughty. |
| Celerity | Another word for speed |
| Cogent | Strongly persuasive or compelling |
| Dearth | Insufficient, inadequate |
| BAM BAM POW POW BOOM | Onomatopoeia |
| Didactic | Instructive, lecturing |
| High/Formal diction | The feline meandered elegantly through the halcyon forest in search for a new mate. |
| Argument Analysis | An essay that requires one to qualify, agree, or disagree with a claim. |
| Rhetorical Analysis | An essay that requires one to look for rhetorical devices within a passage. |
| POE | You should do this process on every multiple choice question |
| 3 hours 15 minutes | How long is the APEL exam? |
| Personification | The warmth of the sun's rays hugged every inch of my body. |
| Antithesis | "To be or not to be." "It was the worst of times, it was the best of times." |
| Metaphor | His eyes were constellations but his soul was a grave. |
| Either/Or Reasoning | When the writer reduces an argument or issue to two polar opposites and ignores any alternatives. |
| Visual Imagery | The woman's cheeks flushed like the color of the red roses that were given to her. |
| Diction | the author's choice of words that creates tone, attitude, and style, as well as meaning |
| Tone | Similar to mood, __ describes the author's attitude toward his or her material, the audience, or both. |
| Infer | To draw a reasonable conclusion from the information presented. |
| Alliteration | Live, Love, Lie |
| Charlatan | He fell for the ________ who promised to double his investment. |
| Cognizant | When walking at night, I stay ___________ of strangers. |
| Deviate | Leave the traditional path, veer off |
| Espouse | Everyone should _________ for respect and honor. |
| Fatuous | Foolish, silly |
| Germane | Relavant, on topic, similar |
| Hedonist | Lover of pleasure |
| Oxymoron | I do here humbly bold to present them with a short account of themselves. |
| Epistrophe | The repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases ,clauses, or sentenes |
| Litotes | Hitting that telephone pole certainly didn't do your car any good |
| Metonymy | I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. |
| Diacope | The repetition of the same word or phrase after an intervening word or phrase as a method of emphasis. |
| Hasty generalization | A fallacy in which a conclusion is not logically justified by sufficient or unbiased evidence. |
| Denotation | The direct dictionary meaning of a word, in contrast to its figurative meaning |
| Claim | An arguable statement, which may be a claim of fact, value, or policy |
| Circular argument | An argument that commits the logical fallacy of assuming what it is attempting to prove |
| Assonance | The identity or similarly in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words |
| False,, you are NEVER "done early " | False,, you are NEVER "done early " If you finish your Ap Exam early you may stop and do something quiet: True or False |
| True | Argument essay supports you position with evidence from your reading, observation, and or experience : True or false |
| Imbue | Books _________ their readers with intelligence. |
| Licentious | The ________ were punished during Puritan times. |
| Lucid | His ____ conversation was a relief after his concussion; we understood him clearly. |
| Incongruous | Out of place |
| Foible | The man's only ________ was his collection of human hair. |
| Garrulous | I am not_________________ during meetings, so people don't hear my ideas. . |
| Halcyon | The _________ forest was peaceful and quiet. |
| paradox | An assertion seemingly opposed to common sense, but that may yet have some truth in it. |
| periodic sentence | arranged in order of climax; withholds important or critical information to make the end information a surprise. |
| Compound Complex Sentence | contains 2 independent clauses and a dependent clause |
| euphemism | Substitution of an agreeable or at least non-offensive expression for one whose plainer meaning might be harsh or unpleasant. |
| circular reasoning | Asserting a point that has just been made. Sometimes called “begging the question.” Example: She is ignorant because she was never educated. Or: We sin because we’re sinners. |
| non sequitur | The conclusion does not follow logically from the premise. Example: Ms. Lo is pretty; I’ll learn a lot from her. Or: John McCain was a war hero; he’ll be willing to stand tough for America. |
| circumlocution | An indirect way of expressing; to talk around a topic, essentially avoiding it |
| Homonyms | words that sound alike but have different meanings |
| Anaphora | "We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France" is an example. |
| Rhetorical Question | declarative statements taking a (falsely) interrogative form |
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