AP Lang: Appealing to An Audience

Persuasion

A rhetorical purpose that asks audience to think/ act in a specific way.

Line of Reasoning

Reasons to lead an audience form the idea to the conclusion.

Inductive Reasoning

Organizational Strategy that moves from specific observations to broad generalizations.

Deductive Reasoning

Organizational strategy that beings with broad generalizations then moves to specific.

Juxtaposition

contrasting ideas, scenes, settings, images, etc.

Antithesis

Expressing contrasting ideas in parallel grammatical structure.

Parallel Structure

Repeating words/ phrases in same grammatical structure.

Rhetorical Questions

Posing a question that is expected to be considered but not answered literally.

Repetition

Repeating of a word, phrase, sentence, or other element.

Fragment

A broken thought or only part of a sentence.

Simple Sentence

A complete thought consisting of a subject and verb.