AP terms 5 Flashcards
Invective
a verbally abusive attack
Inversion
reversing the customary order of elements in a sentence
Jargon
special language of a profession or group
Logical appeal- logos
persuade by statistics, facts, and reasons
Lyrical
characterized by emotions, subjectively, and imigration
Mode
the method or form of a literary work
Mood
primary emotional attitude
Narration
telling of a story
Objectivity
impersonal presentation of events and characters. removing the writer, himself, from the story
Oversimplification
a writer obscures or denies the complexity of the issue in an argumnent
Oxymoron
figure of speech composed of contradictory words or phrases
Pacing
movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another
Parable
short tale that teaches a moral