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AP Lang Summer Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ethos | The author's attempts to persuade the audience through credibility and appealing to authority/ the speaker |
| Rhetoric (noun): | the art of effective of persuasive speaking or writing |
| Logos | The author's attempts to persuade the audience by appealing to their rationality through logic./ the message |
| Pathos | The author's attempts to persuade the audience by appealing to their emotions/ audience |
| Juxtaposition | Two separate ideas that are placed side by side to emphasize their differences. |
| Allusion | A brief reference to a well-known person, historical event, piece of literature, or work of art to develop a character or story. |
| Irony | Dramatic - audience knows something that character doesn't. Verbal- character says something differs from what it means/what they intend. Situational- something the opposite of what was expected happens. appeal to the audience by using satire and humor. |
| Symbolism | Objects or words that are used to represent something beyond the literal meaning |
| Structure Mirrors Content | when the physical writing is reflecting the content |
| Imagery | Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste) |
| Mood | Feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader |
| Tone | A writer's attitude toward his or her subject matter revealed through diction, figurative language, and organization on the sentence and global levels. |
| Parallelism | A series of two or more items, all written in the same grammatical pattern; keeping ideas of equal importance in similar grammatical form |
| Syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language. |
| Diction | A writer's or speaker's choice of words |
| Satire | the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues |
| Anecdote | a short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person |
| Anaphora | Repetition of words or phrases to create an emphasis. |
| Paradox | A statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. |
| Simile | A comparison using "like" or "as" |
| Metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. |
| Personification | the giving of human qualities to an animal, object, or idea |
| Hyperbole | Exaggeration |
| Alliteration | Repetition of initial consonant sounds |
| Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates the sound it represents |
| Exigence | the reason who the person is speaking; the situation why |
| SPACE CAT | S-Speaker P-Purpose A-Audience C-Content E-Exigence C-Choices A-Appeals T-Tone |
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