AP language 101-120 Flashcards

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Concession

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Writing style also so that the writer is a logical and fair minded person they are able to realize that every argument has several sides to consider before it is presented it is considered strong as it Vance common ground between you and your opponent

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Portmanteau

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Device in which two or more words are joined together to coin a new word this word is formed by blending parts of two or more words but it always Refers to a single concept

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The coinage of portmanteau

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Involves the linking and blending of two or more words in the new word formed in the process shares the same meaning as the original words it is different from a compound word and that it could have a completely different meaning from the words that it was coming from

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Litotes

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Understatement that widgeon affirmative is Express by the negative of its country as in not bad at all

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Chiasmus

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Rhetorical reversal of the order of words in which the second of two parallel phrases he came in China and in the feet departs he went to the country to the town went he

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Anadiplosis

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A rhetorical term for the petition of the last word of one line or close to begin the next

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Invective

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A verbally abusive attack

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Circumlocution

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Do use of an unnecessarily large number of words or an indirect means or expression to Express and ideas so as to affect an invasion in speech

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Begging the question

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Supporting a claim with a reason that is really a restatement of the claim in different words

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Adage

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Saying or proverb embodying a piece of common wisdom based on experience and often couched in metaphorical language

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Verisimilitude

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Similar to treat the quality of realism in a word that persuade the reader that he or she is getting a vision of life as it is

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Malapropism

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They confuse comically an accurate use of a long word or words

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Cadence

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The rising and following rhythm of speech especially in free verse or prose

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False analogy

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Air in assuming that because two things are alike in some ways they are alike in all ways

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Hasty generalization

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Unsound inductive inference based on insufficient inadequate unspecified evidence

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Non seguitur

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Statement or idea that fails to follow logically from the one before

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Post hoc

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Because one thing follows another it is held to cause the other

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Ad hominem

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Instead of attacking an assertion the argument attacks the person who made the assertion

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Polyphasic

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Excessive talking

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Diatribe

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A bitter, sharply abusive Dana creation attack or criticism a better an abusive speech or writing