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English Ch.1 & Ch. 2
Vob. For Ap Test
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Rhetoric | thoughtful reflective activity leading to effective communication including a rational exchange of opposing viewpoints |
| Rhetorical Triangle | assessment of interaction among subject speaker and audience which influences the sturcture and language of an agrgument |
| Thesis, Claim, Assertion | a clear, focused statement or intent often in the form of an opinion |
| Context | occasion or time and place in which an agrument occurs |
| Pupose | the goal that the speaker or writer wants to achieve |
| Tone | author's attitude toward subject matter and audience |
| Persona | character the speaker creates depending on context purpose subject and audience |
| Counterargument | anticipating and acknowledge objections or opposing views through concession and refutation |
| concede | agree the an opposing argument might be true |
| refute | deny the validity of all or part of the argument |
| connotation | idea or meaning suggested by or associated with a word or thing |
| assumption | commonly held underlying belief |
| propaganda | information or idea methodically spread to promote or injure a cause |
| polemical | controversial argument especially on refuting or attaching a specific opinion or doctrine |
| satire | use of ridicule in exposing, denouncing or deriding vice, folly |
| introduction | introduced the reader to the subject under discussion gets readers; attention establishes writer's ethos |
| narration | provided factual information and background material on the subject or establishes why the subject is a problem that needs addressing using both logos and pathos |
| confirmation | uses logos to develop of proof needed to make the writer's case |
| refutation | uese logos to address counterarguments and connect writer's proof and conclusion |
| conclusion | uses pathos and ethos to bring the essay to a satisfying close |
| narration | telling a story or recounting a series of events to support a thesis based on peronsal experience or knowledge gained from reading or observation |
| description | emphasizes the senses by painting a picture of how something looks sounds smells tastes or feels |
| Process Analysis | explains how somethings works how to do something or how something was done |
| exemplification | uses a series of examples-facts specific cases or instances- to turn a general idea into a concrete one and persuade the reader |
| comparison and contrast | analyzing information carefully by juxtaposing two things to highlight their similarities and differences |
| Definition | redenfining a common term in a new, more thought-provoking way |
| Cause and Effect | analyzing the causes that lead to an effect or the effects that result from a cause |
| annotation | explanatory or critical notes on a text |
| classification and division | breaks on idea or concept into smaller parts by developing categories assigning parts to each and explaining why assignments were made |
| diction | choice of words |
| syntax | arrangement of words;sentence structure |
| tropes | rhetorical figures of speech that consist of a play on words, using a word in a way other than what is considered its literal or normal form; artful diction |
| allegory | a sustained metaphor continued throught whole sentences or even a whole discourse |
| allusion | brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious, or to a work of art |
| archaic diction | old-fashioned or outdated words |
| hyperbole | using exaggeration for dramatic effect |
| metaphor | an explanation of an object or idea through jaxtaposition of diaparate things with a similar characteristic |
| metonymy | using a single feature to represent the whole |
| personification | attribution of human qualities to an inanimate object or idea |
| simile | comparing two unalike things using like, as, than, resembles |
| synecdoche | creates a play on words by referring to something with a related concept as in "hired hands" or workers |
| schemes | figures of speech that change the normal arrengement of words in a sentence's structure |
| alliteration | repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| anaphora | repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses |
| anastrophe | inversion of the usual word order |
| antithesis | juxtaposition of opposing or contrasting ideas |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds most commonly within a short passage of verse |
| asyndeton | omission of conjunctions between related clauses |
| chiasmus | reversal of grammatical structures in successive claused |
| climax | arrangement of words in order of increaseing importance |
| cumulative sentence | adding details that support an importan idea in the beginning of the sentence |
| ellipsis | omission of words |
| hortative sentence | sentence that exhorts advise calls to action |
| imperative sentence | sentence used to command, enjoin, implore, or entreat |
| inversion | sentence in which the verb precedes the subject |
| isocolon | use of parallel structures of the same length in successive clause |
| juxtaposition | placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts |
| oxymoron | juxtaposition of two words that have opposite meanings |
| parallelism | use of similar structures in two or more clauses |
| parenthesis | insertion of a clause or sentence in a place where it interupts the natural flow of the sentence |
| periodic sentence | sentence that builds toward and ends with the main clause |
| polysyndeton | the use of several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted |
| rhetorical question | figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather that for the purpose of getting an ansewer |
| tricolon | use of three parallel structures of the same length in independent clause |
| zeugma | the use of a word to modify or govern two or move words, in such a manner that it applies to each in a different sense or makes sense with only one |
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