AP language website vocab 181-200 Flashcards
rhetoric
persuasive speaking
sentiments
a view of or attitude toward a situation or opinion
parallelism
state of being parallel
analogy
comparison between two things
anecdote
a short amusing story
perpendicular
angle of 90 degrees
polysyndeton
many, bond together
enumeration
the action of mentioning a number of thing one by one
anaphora
repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a clause
allusion
calling something to mind
claim
state or assert that something is the case
asyndeton
absence of a conjunction
placid
not easily upset or excited
covert
not openly acknowledged
protracted
lasting for a long time
ad hominem
directed at a person rather than a position
counterargument
an argument to oppose the other side
classification
classifying something