Ap Terms Day 3

Question 1

Diction

Answer 1

Word choice, an element of style, Diction creates tone, attitude and style . Different types and arrangements of words have significant effects on meaning. An essay written in academic diction would be less colorful, but perhaps more precise than street slang.

Question 2

Didactic

Answer 2

Writing whose purpose is to instruct or teach. A didactic work usually formal and focuses on moral or ethical concerns, maybe fictional or non fictional that teaches a specific lesson or moral.

Question 3

Discourse

Answer 3

Spoken or written language including literary works the four traditionally classified modes of discourse are description, exposition, narration and persuasion

Question 4

Emotional Appeal- Pathos

Answer 4

When a writer appeals to the emotions of the readers to excite and involve them in an argument

Question 5

Epigrapgh

Answer 5

The use of a quotation of the beginning of a work that hints at its theme

Question 6

Ethical Appeal- Ethos

Answer 6

When a writer tries to persuade the audience to respect and believe him or her based on a presentation of image through text

Question 7

Euphenism

Answer 7

a more acceptable and usually more pleasant way of saying that might be inappropriate or uncomfortable