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APLit vocab 1
for 1st quiz on like modes of writing, vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Ethos | Using credibility, character, or authority to convince an audience. |
| Pathos | Using emotion or passion to convince an audience. |
| Logos | Using logic, reason, data, or facts to convince an audience. |
| Narration | Writing to tell a story or recount a sequence of events. |
| Description | Writing to create a picture in the reader's mind using sensory details (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste). |
| Argument | Writing to persuade the reader to agree with a specific claim or viewpoint using evidence and reasoning. |
| Exposition | Writing to explain, inform, define, or clarify a subject for the reader. |
| Rhetoric | The art of effective or persuasive speaking and writing. |
| Speaker | The voice or persona behind the text who is communicating the message. |
| Audience | The specific person or group of people to whom a text is directed. |
| Purpose | The author's primary goal or reason for writing the text, such as to persuade, inform, or entertain. |
| Context | The social, historical, and cultural circumstances surrounding the creation of a text. |
| Exigence | The specific event, problem, or situation that prompts an author to write or speak. |
| Style | The unique way an author uses language, including their choices in syntax, diction, and tone. |
| Tone | The author's underlying attitude toward the subject matter or the audience. |
| Mood | The emotional atmosphere or feeling that a text creates within the reader. |
| Motif | A recurring image, symbol, concept, or theme throughout a literary work. |
| Syntax | The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences. |
| Diction | The specific word choices made by a writer or speaker. |
| Anaphora | The deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences. |
| Antithesis | The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in a balanced or parallel grammatical structure. |
| Juxtaposition | The placement of two distinct things closely together to emphasize their differences or similarities. |
| Periodic sentence | A sentence that deliberately withholds its main idea or independent clause until the very end. |
| Loose sentence | A sentence that begins with its main independent clause and is followed by successive modifying phrases or clauses. |
| Syllogism | A formal method of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a logical conclusion. |
| Declarative | A sentence that makes a statement or expresses a fact. |
| Imperative | A sentence that gives a command, makes a request, or issues an instruction. |
| Interrogative | A sentence that asks a direct question. |
| Exclamation | A sentence or sudden utterance that expresses strong emotion. |
| Imagery | The use of vivid, descriptive language that appeals to the physical senses to create mental images. |
| Irony | A contrast or incongruity between expectations and reality, or between what is said and what is actually meant. |
| Hyperbole | The use of deliberate, extreme exaggeration for emphasis or rhetorical effect. |
| Allusion | A brief, indirect reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art. |
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