Day 3 AP Terms

Question 1

Diction

Answer 1

Word choice, an element of style; Diction creates tone, attitude, and style, as well as meaning.

Question 2

Didactic

Answer 2

Writing whose purpose is to instruct or to teach. A didactic work is usually formal and focuses on moral or ethical concerns. Didactic writing can be fiction or non-fiction and teaches a lesson or moral.

Question 3

Discourse

Answer 3

Spoken or written language, including literary works; the four traditionally classified modes of discourse are description, exposition, narration, and persuasion.

Question 4

Emotional Appeal- Pathos

Answer 4

When a writer appeals to the readers’ emotions to excite and involve them in the argument.

Question 5

Epigraph

Answer 5

The use of a quotation at the beginning of a work that hints at its theme.

Question 6

Ethical Appeal- Ethos

Answer 6

When a writer tries to persuade the audience to respect and believe him/her based on a presentation of image of self through the text. Reputation is sometimes a factor in ethical appeal, but in all cases the aim is to gain the audience’s confidence.

Question 7

Euphemism

Answer 7

A more acceptable and usually more pleasant way of something that might be inappropriate or uncomfortable.