AP Vocabulary 101-120

Question 1

Concession (pt2)

Answer 1

Concession writing style also shows that the writer is a logical and Fair-minded person, able to realize that every argument has several sides to consider before it is presented. This type of writing can be considered strong as it find common ground between you and your opponent.

Question 2

Portmanteau

Answer 2

Is a literary device in which two or more words are joined together to coin a new word. A portmanteau word is formed by blending parts of two or more words but is always referring to a single concept.

Question 3

The coinage of portmanteau

Answer 3

Involves the linking and blending of two or more words and the new word formed In the process shares the same meaning as the original words. It is different from a compound word and that it could have a completely different meaning from the words that it was coined from.

Question 4

Litotes

Answer 4

Understatement, especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in “not bad at all”.

Question 5

Chiasmus

Answer 5

Rhetoric reversal of the order of words in the second of two parallel phrases: he came in triumph and in defeat he departs; he went to the country, to the town went he.

Question 6

Anadiplosis

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A rhetorical term for the repetition of the last word of one line or clause to begin the next. Example; “fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. I sensed much fear in you.”

Question 7

Invective

Answer 7

Verbally abusive attack

Question 8

Begging the question

Answer 8

Supporting a claim with a reason that is really a restatement of the claim in different words.

Question 9

Adage

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A saying or a proverb embodying a price of common wisdom based on an experience and often couched in metaphorical language. (Ex: it is always darkest before dawn)

Question 10

Verisimilitude

Answer 10

Similar to truth; the quality of realism in a work that persuade the reader that he/she is getting a vision of life as it is.

Question 11

Malapropism

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A confused, comically inaccurate use of a long word or words. Ex: Romero and Juliet the nurse says, “ i desire some confidence with you sir”

Question 12

Cadence

Answer 12

The rising and falling rhythm of speech especially in free verse or prose

Question 13

Logical fallacies: False Analogy

Answer 13

Error in assuming that because two things are alike ins one ways, they are alike in all ways. Ex: a school is not so different from a business. ( clear and competitive strategy that will lead to a profitable growth)

Question 14

Logical fallacies: hasty generalization

Answer 14

Unsound inductive inference base in insufficient, inadequate, unspecified evidence.

Question 15

Non sequitur

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A statement or idea that fails to follow logically from the one before.

Question 16

Post Hoc

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Because one thing follows another, it is held to cause the other.

Question 17

Ad hominem

Answer 17

Instead of attacking an assertion, the argument attacks the person who made the assertion (DONALD TRUMP)

Question 18

Polyphasic

Answer 18

Excessive talking

Question 19

Circumlocution

Answer 19

The use of an unnecessary large number of words or an indirect means of expression to express an idea so as to effect an evasion in speech.

Question 20

Diatribe

Answer 20

A bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack, or criticism. A bitter and abusive speech or writing.