AP language 101-120 Flashcards
Concession
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
Portmanteau
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
The coinage of portmanteau
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
Litotes
Understatement that widgeon affirmative is Express by the negative of its country as in not bad at all
Chiasmus
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
Anadiplosis
A rhetorical term for the petition of the last word of one line or close to begin the next
Invective
A verbally abusive attack
Circumlocution
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
Begging the question
Supporting a claim with a reason that is really a restatement of the claim in different words
Adage
Saying or proverb embodying a piece of common wisdom based on experience and often couched in metaphorical language
Verisimilitude
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
Malapropism
They confuse comically an accurate use of a long word or words
Cadence
The rising and following rhythm of speech especially in free verse or prose
False analogy
Air in assuming that because two things are alike in some ways they are alike in all ways
Hasty generalization
Unsound inductive inference based on insufficient inadequate unspecified evidence