Day 5 AP Terms Flashcards
Invective
A verbally abusive attack.
Inversion
Reversing the customary order of elements in a sentence or phrase; it is used effectively in many cases, such as posing a question.
Jargon
The special language of a profession or group. The term jargon usually has pejorative associations with the implication that jargon is evasive, tedious, and unintelligible to outsiders.
Logical Appeal-Logos
When a writer tries to persuade the audience based on statistics, facts, and reasons. The process of reasoning.
Lyrical
Song like: characterized by emotion, subjectivity, and imagination.
Mode
The method of form of a literary work; the manner in which a work of literature is written.
Mood
Similar to the tone, mood is the primary emotional attitude of a work. Syntax is also a determiner because of sentence strength, length, and complexity.
Narration
The telling of a story in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama: 1 of 4 modes of discourse.l
Objectivity
An impersonal presentation of events and characters. It is a writer’s attempt to remove himself/herself from any subjective, personal involvement in a story. Hard news journalism is frequently prized for its objectivity, although even fictional stories without 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.
Pacing
the movement of a literary piece from one point or one section to another.
Parable
A short tale that teaches a moral: similar to but shorter than an allegory.
