AP Lang Vocab Set 2. 26-50

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Process Analysis

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Syntax

Question 3

Purposeful choice of words serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate a provocative question that will frame a rhetorical argument

Answer 3

Provocative Diction

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Classification

Question 5

Under expressing how something is

- Winning 10 million and only saying, “I’m delighted”

Answer 5

Understatement

Question 6

Your conscious choice of words that are purposeful to accentuate meaning and tone.

Answer 6

Colorful Diction

Question 7

Argument or reasons put forward to oppose the theory or idea developed in another argument.

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Counter Argument

Question 8

Argument to support someone’s position. Different reasons are usually presented to prove a certain point as logical

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Claim

Question 9

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.

Answer 9

Evidence

Question 10

Comes from Greek work meaning “Bound together” Makes use of coordinating conjunctions like “and”, “or”. “but”’ and “nor” (mostly and and or)

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Polydenton

Question 11

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

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Adage

Question 12

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.

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Pedantic

Question 13

Lack proper respect of seriousness. Often associated with impatience of youth.

Answer 13

Flippant

Question 14

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.

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Evocative

Question 15

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

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Syntactical Inversion

Question 16

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

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Apposition

Question 17

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

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Didactic

Question 18

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.

Answer 18

Conceit