Ap Running Notes (29-32)

Question 1

Provocative Diction

Answer 1

“Diction” is our choice of words. Thus, “provocative diction” is the purposeful choice of words serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate a provocative question that will frame a rhetorical argument.

Question 2

Classification

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Understatement

Answer 3

Four example, you win $10 million in a lottery. When you tell a news reporter “ I am delighted”, You are making an understatement. Similarly, suppose a team loses to it’s opponent 50 to zero in a soccer match and the captain of the team says in a post match “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 or overstatement.

Question 4

Colorful diction

Answer 4

Your conscious choice of words as a writer.