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AP English Final 1
Semester 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ethos | Ethical appeal; an appeal to credibility or trustworthiness of the writer |
| Invented Ethos | Constructed personas; actor has a different persona than he plays |
| Situational Ethos | Relative social standing between the participants in the rhetorical situation |
| Logos | Logical appeal; an appeal to the intellect using various forms of reasoning |
| Pathos | Pathetic appeal; an argument that plays on the audience's sympathy, fears, or desires |
| Exuscitatio | An emotional utterance that seeks to move an audience to a similar feeling |
| Exigence | Rhetorical triangle; the rhetorical situation |
| Karios | Rhetorical triangle; the opputune time/place to say or do the right thing |
| Language | Rhetorical triangle; The overall use of language, such as formal, clinical, jargon |
| Imagery | Rhetorical triangle; the descriptive or figurative language used in literature appeal to one or more of the five senses |
| Epideictic | Branch of rhetoric; speech or writing that praises or blames; commemorates |
| Judicial | Branch of rhetoric; writing used to accuse or defend |
| Deliberative | Branch of rhetoric; speech or writing that attempts to persuade; dissuade, exhort |
| Allegory | A story with a hidden or symbolic meaning |
| Analogy | An explanation based on comparison |
| Analysis of Cause | The determination of why something happened |
| Anecdote | A short, autobiographical, narrative told to provide an example, an illistration, or a thematic truth |
| Anticipation | To predict and use opposing arguments or a reader's reactions |
| Antirrhesis | Rejecting reprehensively the opinion or authority of someone |
| Aphorism | Condensing much wisdom into few words |
| Concession | A slight yielding and acceptance that an opposing argument is true, valid or accurate |
| Confirmation | |
| Contrast | Compare or appraise in respect to differences |
| Deduction | A method of reasoning in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the stated premises; inference by reasoning from general to specific |
| Encomium | A tribute or eulogy in prose or verse honoring people, objects, ideas, or events |
| Enthymeme | Unstated assumptions |
| Epicrisis | A circumstance in which a speaker quotes a passage and comments on it |
| Evidence | Data, information, and knowledge that is used to support and argument |
| Exordium | The introductory argument in which the writer establishes ethos and announces the subject and purpose of writing; grabs the reader's attention |
| Exposition | Writing that explains, informs, or presents information; plot- introduces characters, setting, and basic situation |
| Induction | Method of reasoning in which a speaker or writer collects a number of instances and forms a generalization that is meant to apply to all instances; specific to general |
| Narration | Writing that tells a story; act of telling a story |
| Peroration | Conclusion; the closing part of an arguement, often with a summary and an appeal to pathos |
| Prolepsis | Foreseeing and forestalling objections to an argument; figuraive device by which a future even is presumed to have already occured |
| Refutation/Rebuttal | To prove wrong by argument or evidence; show to be false or erroneous |
| Syllogism | Deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion |
| Testimony | A person's account of an event or state of affairs |
| Annotation | Explanatory notes added to a text to explain, cite sources, or give bibliographical data |
| Humor | The use of levity to appeal to an audience or attack the opposition |
| Idiom | A use of words, a construction peculiar to a given language or an expression that cannot be literally translated into another language; How do you do |
| Implied Thesis | The central idea of the writers that is NOT stated directly |
| Logic Marker/Transition | Transitional words; the use of words to show the logical relationships between ideas |
| Memory | Considers methods and devices that aid in memory; including figures of speech |
| Mood | The feeling created in the reader by a literary work |
| Motif | A recurring feature in the writer's work |
| Non Sequitor | It does not follow; inference or conclusion that does not make sense |
| Point of View | The perspective from which the author writes, addressing himself/herself, the audience, or the subject |
| Sensory Language | Words that make a connection between the ideas that they convey and the physical senses of touch, smell, taste, hearing and sight |
| Style | The way in which something is spoken, written, or performed |
| Symbol | An object that has its own meaning, but also represents an abstract idea |
| Tone | Manner of expression in speaking or writing that conveys the attitude toward the subject or audience |
| Voice | The author's style, the quality that makes his or her writing unique, and which conveys the author's attitude, personality, and character |
| Call to Action | An appeal, not merely to listen, but to act on what is being presented |
| Assertion | A main argument that supports the thesis |
| Thesis | The central idea the writer is trying to persuade the reader to believe |
| Anaphora | A device in which the same word or words are repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences |
| Authority | An expert on the subject matter |
| Parallelism | A repetitive structure in which ideas or parts of an idea are similarly developed or arranged |
| Diction | Word choice; the use of specific words for a purpose |
| Rhetorical Question | A question offered by the writer or speaker for its rhetorical effect, not requiring a reply |
| Connotation | The emotional implications and associations that words carry |
| Dennotation | The literal, dictionary-definition meaning of a word |
| Polysyndeton | The use of more conjunctions than is normal; and, or, for |
| Rapport | The relationship an author tries to develop with his or her audience; relation marked by harmony, conformity, accord, or affinity |
| Affiliation | The author's stated or implied membership of or allegiance with a group |
| Asyndeton | Lack of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words; I came, I saw, I conquered |
| Allusion | References to other peoples or works |
| Listing/Catalouging | To record a series of phrases, ideas, or things |
| Syntax | Sentence structure; this can affect pace and intensity |
| Logical Argument | |
| Narrative Pace | The speed and intensity created by syntactical structures |
| Inventio | Invention |
| Dispostitio | Arragement; structure of text |
| Delivery | Concerned with control of voice or gestures |
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