AP LANG WEEK 1 Flashcards
Ad Hominem
a rhetorical device that involves commenting on or against the individual making an argument rather than on the argument itself
Allegory
Allegory is a narration or description in which events, actions, characters, settings or objects represent specific abstractions or ideas.
Alliteration
Alliteration is a literary device that reflects repetition in two or more nearby words of initial consonant sounds.
Allusion
An allusion is a reference, typically brief, to a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work with which the reader is presumably familiar.
Anadiplosis
Anadiplosis is a figure of speech in which a word or group of words located at the end of one clause or sentence is repeated at or near the beginning of the following clause or sentence.
Analogy
An analogy is something that shows how two things are alike, but with the ultimate goal of making a point about this comparison.
Anaphora
Anaphora is a rhetorical device that features the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive sentences, phrases, or clauses.
Anecdote
Anecdotes are short stories used in every day conversation in order to inspire, amuse, caution and more.
Annotation
Annotating is any action that deliberately interacts with a text to enhance the reader’s understanding of, recall of, and reaction to the text.
Antithesis
Antithesis is a rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect.
Ethos
Ethos is an argument that appeals to the audience by emphasizing the speaker’s credibility and authority
Pathos
the appeal to emotion, means to persuade an audience by purposely evoking certain emotions to make them feel the way the author wants them to feel.
Logos
to appeal to the audiences’ sense of reason or logic.
