Ap Lang Rhetorical Terms 4

Repetition

Repetition

Using a word, phrase, or clause more than once

Rhetoric

Study and practice of effective communication

Rhetorical Question

Question asked with no answer expected

Running Style

Appears to follow a problem through mimicking the rambling associative syntax

Sarcasm

Mocking, often ironic or satirical remark

Satire

Text or performance uses irony,derision, or wit, to attack human vice.

Simile

Figure of speech where two unlike things are compared.

Style

Figures that ornament speech or writing. Representing manifestation of person speaking or writing.

Syllogism

Deductive reasoning with major and minor premise and conclusion.

Subordination

Words, phrases, clauses that makes a sentence dependent. Contrast with coordination.

Symbol

Person, place, or thing by association, resemblance, and convention represents something other than self.

Synecdoche

Figure of speech which part is used to represent the whole, whole for part, specific for the general (vise versa)

Syntax

The way words combine to form phrases, clauses, sentences. Arrangement of words in sentence.

Thesis

Main idea of essay or report.

Tone

Writers attitude toward subject and audience. Conveyed through diction ,pov, syntax, etc

Understatement

Figure of speech where writer makes a situation seem less important than it is.

Voice

Whether it's subject acts (active voice) or is acted upon. Style or manner of expression of an author or narrator.

Zeugma

To modify or govern two or more words although its use is correct with only one

Ad Hominem

Failings of adversary, a logical fallacy that involves personal attack

False Dichotomy

Fallacy oversimplification, offers a limited number of options when more options are available

Hasty Generalization

Fallacy where conclusion is not justified by sufficient evidence.

Strawman Argument

Attacks different subject rather than the topic being discussed

Slippery Slope Argument

A certain course of action will lead to a chain of future events

Bandwagon Factory

Says something is true, right, or good because others agree with it.

Circular Argument

Person's argument repeats what they already assumed before arriving at a new conclusion