AP Lang Rhetorical and Literary Terms Part 3 Flashcards
Ethical appeal (also called ethos)
An appeal made in a text or speech that is based on the reputation of the author or speaker. The speakers claims appear valid because the target audience trusts the speakers reputation or reputed concern for them
Example
An individual instance taken to be representative of a general pattern
Explication
The act of interpreting or discovering the menacing of a text
Exposition
Background information provided by a writer to enhance understanding
False analogy
An attempt to use two cases that are not sufficiently parallel to accept a connection
Fiction
A text that is the product of a writers imagination, using characters, plot, setting, point of view, and theme. Effective writers create texts that make remembering the story easy
Figurative language
A word or words that are inaccurate literally, but describe by calling to mind sensations or responses that the thing describes encores. Most of the literary terms you have learned in English can generally be called figurative language
Generalization
A position or claim established by a writer based on an isolated example or asserts that a claim is certain rather than probable
Hyperbole
Conscious exaggeration to heighten effect (often humor)
Image
A word or words that used to describe a sensory expression
Imagery
Words used to create a strong unified sensory impression
Inversion
Variation (often the reversal) of the normal word order
Logic
An implied comparison when one thing is directly called another
Logical appeal also called logos
Writer uses language to purposefully appeal to reason
Logos
- Logical appeal
- The embodied thought an author uses to make decisions while creating the text. It guides that authors choices (when to make emotional, logical, or ethical appeals to a given audience )
Metaphor
A comparison between two unlike things
