What's the Big Idea?
Writers adapt their writing to specific situations, making deliberate choices about how to express themselves based on those circumstances.
What is Rhetorical Situation?
What rhetorical device involves repeating words at the beginning of successive clauses?
What type of evidence uses logic, facts, and data?
What is Logos?
The overall attitude or feeling a writer conveys toward a subject.
What is tone?
The logical progression of ideas that connects claims and evidence to a main argument.
What is a line of reasoning?
Writers make assertions about AP Lang topics, rely on facts to back up the logic that justifies the assertion, and frequently acknowledge or reply to other arguments, some of which may oppose the writer's position.
What is Claims and Evidence?
What device is used when an author contrasts two opposing ideas in a balanced structure?
Antithesis
What is a claim that can be argued and supported with evidence?
Defensible claim
The deliberate choice of specific words to shape meaning and influence how a reader feels.
What is diction?
Words or phrases that help guide the reader from one idea to the next, improving flow and clarity.
What are transitions?
Writers demonstrate how to comprehend a text's reasoning statements through the organization of the text and the utilization of evidence.
What is Reasoning and Organization?
What rhetorical appeal relies on the speaker’s credibility?
Ethos
This logical fallacy occurs when a writer assumes that because one event follows another, the first event caused the second.
What is post hoc ergo propter hoc?
The arrangement of words and phrases in sentences to create emphasis, rhythm, and clarity.
What is syntax?
The way a text is structured so that all parts work together smoothly and logically to support the argument.
What is Unity and Coherence?
The rhetorical situation guides writers in making strategic decisions concerning their writing style.
What is Style?
What strategy involves acknowledging a counterargument and then refuting it?
Refutation
This fallacy misrepresents an opponent’s argument to make it easier to attack.
What is a straw man fallacy?
The combined use of grammar, sentence structure, and comparisons to strengthen clarity, tone, and persuasiveness in an argument.
What is style?
Explaining why pieces of evidence matter and how they support your claim.
What is commentary?
A thief finds a journal in a vacant coffin he excavated from the ocean. He ends up in the South Pacific after finding details about how to find El Dorado, and later discovers that it is not a city, but a single statue; a cursed statue.
What is Uncharted: Drake's Fortune™?
What device uses a surprising contrast between expectation and reality for emphasis?
irony
This fallacy suggests that a relatively small first step will lead to a chain of related negative events.
What is a slippery slope?
Form of diction that uses regional expressions to add authenticity. ("y'all")
What is colloquial diction?
Analyzing the structure of a text in a rhetorical analysis from beginning to end.
What is chronological analysis?