AP Language 22-40 Flashcards

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Epistrophe

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Derive from a Greek word that means turning upon which indicates the same word returns at the end of each sentence assistive device that can be defined as the repetition of phrases or words at the end of the clauses or sentences it is also called euphoria

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Asyndeton

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Is draft from a Greek word asyndeton which means unconnected it is a dollar a stick device is the literature and poetry to intentionally illuminate conjunctions between the phrases and in the sense that maintain the grammatical accuracy helps in reducing the indirect meaning of the phrase in the present it in a concise form helps in the beginning of the rhythm of words

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Polysyndeton

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The time comes from a Greek word Meaning down together it makes use of coordinating conjunctions like and or butt and nor mostly and indoor which are used to joy success of words phrases or clauses in such a way that these contractions or even use the name might have been omitted

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Synecdoche

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A literary device in which a part of something represents the hole or it mean use a hole to represent a part distinguish between this and metonymy carefully

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Tone

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And written composition is an attitude of a writer towards the subject or an audience it is something important for the reader to sense to determine an argument tone is generally conveyed through the choice of words or the people in the writer on a particular subject

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Process of analysis

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Step-by-step breakdown of the phases used to convey the details of each phase of thinking and operation etc. it is often used to improve understanding and also to break down an argument to make it more comprehensible

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Syntax

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In plain English syntax refers to how we choose to arrange our words

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Provocative diction

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Diction is Our choice of words this provocative diction is the purposeful choice of words serving or tending to provoke excite or stimulate a provocative question that will Fran a rhetorical argument

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Classification

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The action or process of classifying something according to shared qualities or characteristics this is often a strategy of argumentation or an argumentative response in an effort to provide the reader with structure to your argument it would be concise red a support to both logos and ethos is presenting an argument

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Understatement

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For example you win ten million dollars in a lottery when you tell the news reporter I am delighted you are making an understatement similarly suppose a team loses to its opposite 50 -0 in a soccer match and the captain of the team says in a post match ceremony says we did not do well it is an understatement because he is trying to decrease the intensity of the loss it is the opposite of hyperbole of overstatement

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Colorful diction

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Diction is your conscious choice of words as a writer it stands to reason that colorful diction is a very purposeful word choice that will serve to accentuate meaning and tone

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Counter argument

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An argument or set of reasons put towards to oppose an idea or theory developed in another argument when writing writing an argumentative mode it is mandatory that the writer acknowledge the tiger side to his or argument it is part of the refutation of someone else’s claim to support your own side of the argument that you are making

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Claim

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If somebody’s gives an argument to support his or her position it is called making a claim different reasons are usually presented to prove why a certain point should be accepted as logical

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Evidence

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The type of literary device that appears in different categories of essays and these in the form of paraphrase and quotations it is presented to pursuance the readers and used with powerful arguments in texts or essays in rhetoric when a person makes a claim or presents an argument he needs to present evidence in support of his claim or argument in order to establish the veracity and authenticity of his claim or argument

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Warrant

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Glue that’s holds an argument together it links the evidence to the claim it says something like this evidence supports the claim because and it is always in a similar form that is more of a statement of support of why your evidence supports your assertion / claim

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Fallacy

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Erroneous argument dependent upon an unsound or illogical convention there are many fallacy examples that we can find in everyday conversation

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Logical fallacy

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In argumentation a formal fallacy (aka seductive fallacy) is a pattern of reasoning / thinking rendered invalid by a flow in its logical structure that can neatly be expressed in a standard logic system

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Prophecy

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Many believe that’s a prediction And a prophecy are the same but they are mistaken it is true that both forecast the future but there’s a significant difference a prophecy has all the elements of a prediction except the element of time without the element of time a prophecy is hard to determine a prophecy has more of a religious connotation since there is an element of uncertainty about time

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Prediction

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A forecast made by those who calculate the parameters of the subject involved after evaluating the odds they can predict the future the weather forecast is a good example of a prediction is limited to a time element unlike a prophecy