AP Lang Vocab Set 2. 26-50 Flashcards
Step-by-step breakdown of the phrases or processes, used to convey the details of each phase of thinking. Used to help understand and break down an argument
Process Analysis
Set of rules in a language. Dictates how words from a part of speech are put together in order to convey a complete thought. In plain English, it means how we choose to arrange words
Syntax
Purposeful choice of words serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate a provocative question that will frame a rhetorical argument
Provocative Diction
Process of classifying something according to shared qualities or characteristics. Often the strategy of argumentation in order to provide structure to your argument, ethos and logos
Classification
Under expressing how something is
- Winning 10 million and only saying, “I’m delighted”
Understatement
Your conscious choice of words that are purposeful to accentuate meaning and tone.
Colorful Diction
Argument or reasons put forward to oppose the theory or idea developed in another argument.
Counter Argument
Argument to support someone’s position. Different reasons are usually presented to prove a certain point as logical
Claim
Type of literary device that appears in multiple essay types as paraphrase or quotation. It is used to persuade the reader and use powerful arguments in the text. When making a claim it is necessary to support it.
Evidence
Comes from Greek work meaning “Bound together” Makes use of coordinating conjunctions like “and”, “or”. “but”’ and “nor” (mostly and and or)
Polydenton
Short pointed and memorable saying based on facts, and is considered a vertible truth by the majority of people, famous adages become popular due to their usage over a long period of time. General fact or truth about life that over time is accepted as a universal truth
Adage
Comes from French word Pedant, which means, “To teach or to act as pedagogue” It is someone who is concerned with precision, formalism, accuracy, minute details in order to make an arrogant show of learning.
Pedantic
Lack proper respect of seriousness. Often associated with impatience of youth.
Flippant
Use of language that “suggest” meanings of than the denotative. Language that connects with emotions or feelings not associated with the actual meaning of the word.
Evocative
Inversion, also called anastrophe, in literary style and rhetoric, the syntactic reversal of the normal order of these words and phrases in a sentence. Placing the adjective after the noun it modify
Syntactical Inversion
Grammatical construction in which two elements, normally noun phrases, are placed side by side, with one element serving to identify the other in a different way
Apposition
Used for literary text that are overloaded wit informative or realistic matter and are marked by the omission of graceful and pleasing details.Can be derogatory to forms of literature that seem dull and erudite. Can be entertaining
Didactic
Figure of speech in which two vastly different objects are linked together with the help of similes or metaphors. Thus, it can have a surprising or shocking effect on the reader because they are novel comparisons made in similes or metaphors.
Conceit
