AP Vocab 3

Question 1

Description

Answer 1

the picturing in words of something or someone through detailed observation of color, motion, sound, taste, smell, and touch, 4 modes of discourse

Question 2

Diction

Answer 2

word choice, an element of style; diction creates tone, attitude, and style, as well as meaning. different types and arrangements of words have significant effects on meanings. an essay written in academic diction would be much less colorful, but more precise that street slang

Question 3

Didactic

Answer 3

writing whose purpose is to instruct or to teach a didactic work is usually more formal and focuses on moral or ethical concerns didactic writing may be fictional or nonfictional that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model or correct behavior or thinking

Question 4

Discourse

Answer 4

spoken or written language, including literary works the 4 traditionally classified modes of discourse are description exposition narration & persuation

Question 5

Emotional Appeal Pathos

Answer 5

when a writer appeals to readers emotions to excite and involve them in the argument

Question 6

Epigraph

Answer 6

the use of a quotation at the beginning of a work that hints at its theme Hemingway begins The Sun Also Rises w/ 2 epigraphs. One of them is “You are all a Lost Generation” by Gertrude Stein

Question 7

Ethical Appeal- Ethos

Answer 7

when a writer writer tries to persuade the audience to respect and believe him or her based on a presentation of image of self through text. reputation is sometimes a factor in ethical appeal, but in cases the aim is to gain the audiences confidence

Question 8

Euphemism

Answer 8

A more acceptable and more present way of saying something that might be inappropriate or uncomfortable