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AP COMP VOCAB 6
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Claim of policy | proposes a change. |
| Compare/Contrast | 1. To _____means to bring both similarities and differences with the emphasis on similarities. 2. To _____ is to stress only the differences. |
| Concession | Agreeing with the opposing viewpoint on a certain smaller point |
| Connotation | The implied meaning of a word |
| Deductive Reasoning | Starts with a general claim, provides a specific presumption, creates a specific conclusion. (Top down) |
| Denotation | The literal, dictionary-definition meaning of a word |
| Juxtaposition | Placing two very different things together for effect. |
| Diction | The style of language used; generally tailored to be appropriate to the audience and situation. (WORD CHOICE) |
| Evaluate | To assess: to show worth or lack of worth of a particular "something" To give a judgement of value both postive and negative. |
| Exemplification | Providing examples in service of a point. |
| First Hand Evidence | Evidence based on something the writer knows, whether it's from personal experience, observations, or general knowledge of events. |
| Hasty Generalization | A fallacy in which a faulty conclusion is reached between inadequate evidence |
| Idiom | A commonly used phrase that signifies something very different than its literal meaning. |
| Inductive reasoning | starts with creating a specific conclusion, provides a specific presumption, ends with a general claim (Bottom up) |
| Logical Fallacy | are potential vulnerabilities or weaknesses in an argument. They often arise from a failure to make logical connections between the claim and the evidence used to support it. |
| Metonymy | Using a single feature to represent the thing itself, |
| Occasion | When and where and in what situation; place, context, or current situation that created the reason for the author to write. The reason or moment for writing or speaking. |
| Polysyndeton | A literary technique in which conjunctions (e.g. and, but, or) are used repeatedly in quick succession, often with no commas, even when the conjunctions could be removed. (bound together) |
| Quantitative Evidence | things that can be measured, cited, counted, or otherwise represented in numbers- for instance, statistics, surverys, polls, census information. |
| Rebuttal | Statements recognizing the opposing side, while refuting their claims. |
| Red Herring | Cheap ploy to divert the audience from the real or central issue to some irrelevant detail |
| Rhetoric | The use of spoken or written word (or a visual medium) to convey your ideas and convince an audience. The art of finding ways to persuade. |
| Sarcasm | Mockingly stating the opposite of what you mean. Easier to convey in the spoken word than via writing. |
| Satire | A genre of humorous and mocking criticism to expose the ignorance and/or ills of society. |
| Second Hand Evidence | Evidence that is accessed through research, reading, and investigation. It includes factual and historical information, expert opinion, and quantitative data. |
| Speaker | The person or group who creates a text. |
| Syntax | The way sentences are grammatically constructed. |
| Synthesis | Combining sources or ideas in a coherent way in the purpose of a larger point. |
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