AP Vocabulary 105-125 Flashcards
Chiasmus
rhetorical reversal of the order of words in the second of two parrallel phases.
Anadiplosis
A rhetorical term for the repetition of the last word of line one or clause to begin the next.
Invective
A verbally abusive attack
Circumlocution
the use of unnessary large number of words or an indirect means of expression to express an idea so as to effect on evasion in speech.
Begging the question
supporting a claim with a reason that is really a restatment of the claim in indiffrent words.
Adage
A saying or proverb embodying a piece of common wisdom based on experience and often couched in diffrent words.
versi militude
similiar to truth the quality of realism in a work that persuades the reader that he/she is getting a vesion of life.
Malapropism
A confused comiclly inaccurate use of a long word or words.
Cadence
The rising and falling rhthem of speech especially in free vere or prose.
False Analogy
Error in assuming that because 2 things are alike in some ways they are alike in all ways
Hasty generalization
unsound inductive infrenece based on insufficient inadequate evidence.
non sequitur
A statement or idea that fails to follow logically from the one before.
Post Hoc
because one thing follows another it is held the cause of the other.
Ad-Hominem
instead of attacking an assertion the argument attacks the person who made the assertion
Polyphasic
excessive talking
