Ap Vocab 5 Flashcards
Invective
a verbally abusive attack
Inversion
reversing the customary (subject first, then verb, then complement) order of elements in a sentence or phrase; it is used effectively in many cases such as posing a question:”Are you going to the store?” - usually the element that appears first is the element emphasized more
Jargon
the special language of a profession or group. the term Jargon usually has pejorative associations with the implications that jargon is evasive, tedions, and untelligible to outsiders the writings of the lawyer and the literary critic and both suspectible to jargon
Logical-Appeal Logos
When a writer tries to persuade the audience based on statistics, facts and reasoning, the process of reasoning
Lyrical
songlike, characterized by emotions, subjectivity and imaginations
Mode
the method or form of a literary work; the manner in which a work of literature is written
Mood
similar to tone, mood is the primary emotional attitude of a work (the feeling of the work, atomosphere). Syntax is also a determiner of mood because of sentence strength, length, and complexity affect pacing
Narration
the telling of a story in fictional, non fictional, poetry, or drama 4 modes of discourse
Objectivity
an impersonal presentation of events and characters. it is a writers attempt to remove himself or herself from any subjective personal involvement in a story. hard news journalism is frequently prized for its objectivity, although even fictional stories, can be told w/o a writer rendering personal judgement
Oversimplification
when a writer obscures or denies the complexity of the issues in an argument
oxymoron
a figure of speech composed of contradictory words or phrases, such as “wise”, bitter sweet, pretty ugly, “jumbo shrimp”
Pacing
a movement of a literary piece from 1 point to another
Parable
short tale that teaches a moral; similar to but shorter than an allegory
