AP Lang / Comp Vocab List
76 - 80
76 - 80
An underlying belief, argument, fact, or assumption upon which an argument is based. these can be stated or unstated.
What is PREMISE?
The art of speaking or writing effectively.
What is RHETORIC?
The meaning and interpretation of words and phrases.
What is SEMANTICS?
A term used for the person whose perspective (real or imagined) is being advanced in the text.
What is the SPEAKER/AUTHOR?
The use of an aspect of something to represent the whole. Example : referring to a car as a "set of wheels".
What is SYNECDOCHE?
A negative term used for writing designed to sway an opinion rather than to present information.
What is PROPAGANDA?
Patterns of organization developed to achieve a specific purpose; modes include but are no limited to narration, description, comparison and contrast, cause and effect, definition, exemplification, classification, and division , process analysis, and argumentation.
What are RHETORICAL MODES?
The varying structure of sentences with regards ton their length, subject and verb placement, and there use of different strategies such as parallelism; using a variety of sentence patterns to create a desired effect.
What is SENTENCE VARIETY?
The distinctive quality of speech or writing created by by the selection and arrangement of words and figures of speech.
What is STYLE?
When an author appeals to a contradictory senses or appeals to multiple senses with a single designation.
What is SYNESTHESIA?
A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.
What is a PUN?
The situation in which a text is created and presented : speaker, purpose, audience, context, and exigence.
What is a RHETORICAL SITUATION?
A figure of speech that compares two seemingly unlike things that uses conjectures such as : like, as, more than, etc.
What is a SIMILE?
In rhetoric, the topic addressed in a pieces of writing.
What is the SUBJECT?
A term used to refer to sentence structure.
What is SYNTAX?
One's intention or objective in a text.
What is PURPOSE?
Verbal irony used to mock or convey contempt.
What is SARCASM?
An argument in which premises are both VALID and TRUE.
What is a SOUND ARGUMENT?
A form of deductive reasoning where an argument is based upon a major and minor premise. Both premises share terms with a concluding statement and a term between them.
What is SYLLOGISM?
A combination or distillation of two or more sources to produce something more complex.
What is SYNTHESIS?
To disrespect, disapprove, or make irrelevant an argument, particularly a counter argument. Also referred to as a rebuttal.
What is REFUTE?
An ironic, sarcastic, or witty composition that claims to argue for something, but actually argues for something else; when a situation or phenomenon is exaggerated to demonstrate the fallaciousness of it.
What is SATIRE?
A book, article, person, or other resource consulted for information.
What is a SOURCE?
A thing that stands for or represents something else, typically a concrete object representing an abstract concept. In an allegory, a character, object, or entity could represent another person or entity from reality.
What is SYMBOL(ISM)?
A central idea of a text or a message of a text.
What is THEME?