APL Rhetorical Terms Flashcards
abstract
refers to the language rather than concept images (ideas that qualify rather than observational or specific things usually biased on concrete language
Allegory
an extended narrative in pros or verse in which a characters events and settings represent and abstract quality’s in which the writer intends a second meaning to be read beneath the surface of the story. the underlying meaning may be moral religious political social or satiric
Anecdote
a short simple narrative or an incident used for humorous effect or to make a point
annotation
explanatory notes added to a text to explain cite sources or to give bibliographical data
anthesis
the presentation of comping two contrasting images the ideas are balanced by a word phrase clause or paragraph “to be or not to be” and “ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your county”
aphroism
a short often witty statement of a principal or a truth about life “early bird gets the worm
Apostrophe
usually in poetry but sometimes in prose; the device of personified abstraction
argumentation
writing in a attempt to prove the vitality of a statement
cacophony
harsh awkward or dishonest sounds used deliberately in poetry
caricicture
descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific persons personality or facts of personality
colloquium
a word or phrase used in every day convorsation and informal writing but is often a inappropriate in formal writing
coherence unity
quality of a piece of writing in which all the parts contribute to the central theme
connotative
implied or suggested meaning of a word because of its coalation in the readers mind
concurrence
repetition of identical consonant sounds with two or more in close proximity as in-boost/best
conundrum
a riddle whose answer is or involves a pun may also be a paradox.difficult problem
deduction
deduction
the process of moving from a general rule to a specific example
denotation
define
description
the picturing of words of something or some one detailed observation of color motion sound taste smell and touch
dictate
writing whose purpose is to instruct or to teach it is usually formal or ethical it may be fiction or nonfiction and teaches a specific lesson or moral
discorse
spoken or written language the four traditional modes of this are description exposition narration and persuasion
emotional appeal
when a writer appeals to an audience’s emotions (usually through pathos) to excite involve them in a argument
epigraph
the use of quotation marks at the beginning of a work to hint at a theme on of term is “you are a lost generation”
ethical appeal
ethos when a writer tries to presuad a audience to respect and believe him through appeal in the text. some time reputation is a factor but in all cases it is used to gain audience confidence.
euphasim
a more pleasant way of saying something that would otherwise be used as inappropriate such as “he went to his final reward” is to “he died” is often used to obscure the final outcome military uses “collateral damage”” for “civilian deaths”
euphony
a succession of harmonious sounds the opposite of cacophony
example
an individual instance used to represent a problem. arguing by example is considered reliable if examples are considered true
explictation
the art of interpreting or discovering the meaning of text usually involves close reading or special attention to figurative language
exposition
the immediate revelation to the audience to the setting and other background information used to understand the plot one of the four modes of discourse
genre
type of literary work such as poetry or novel there are also sub genres such as sci-fi or sonnet
humor
anything that causes laughter or amusement up until the end of the Renaissance it meant a persons temperance
hyberbol
deliberate exaggeration used to create humor to empasis
image
a word or words on an object used to depict something to the point to where you could see it in your head when read
jargon
the special language of a profession or group the term jargon usually has pejorative associations with the implications that jargon is tentative and serious tedious and unintelligible to outsiders the writings as a language and literary critique are both susceptible to jargon
logical appeal logos
when a author tries to persuade using facts and statistics.
lyrical
song-like character emotions and subjectivity and imagionation
mode
the method or form of a literary work the manner in which literature is written in
narration
the telling of a story
parellelism
a technique of arranging words and other forms of writing side by side and making them in similar form ex. “we will fight on the beaches, we will fight on the landing grounds, we will fight in the fields.”
parody
work that ridicules the style of anothers work exagerating its elements it can be uterly mocking or geroursly humorus
pathetic appeal- pathos
where a writer appeals to emotion
