AP English Language & Composition Vocabulary Test #1

All 40 terms from the vocab #1 and #2 assignments

Rhetoric

effective and persuasive communication using language

Audience

The spectators at a place

Context

What happened before a certain event

Purpose

The reason for something to happen

Thesis/Claim/Assertion

The main idea of a piece of writing

Subject

A person, place, or thing being discussed about

Speaker

A person who speaks

Rhetorical / Aristotelian Triangle

Breaks rhetoric into Logos, Ethos, and Pathos

Ethos

Used to show credibility

Logos

Used to show logic and reason

Pathos

Used to create emotions in an audience

Tone

Attitude of a person, place, writing, etc.

Assumption / Warrant

Connects the claim and evidence

Counterargument

An argument that opposes another argument

Concede

Surrender or yield possessions

Refute

Disprove a statement or theory

Connotation

Suggesting something beyond a words definition through ideas or feelings

Denotation

The literal definition of a word

Propaganda

Biased or misleading information

Polemic

A speech or piece of writing with controversial opinion of something else

Arrangement

To put in an attractive order

Exordium

Beginning or introduction especially of a discourse or treatise

Narratio

portion of an essay where a speaker provides a narrative account of what happened

Confirmatio

portion of an essay where argument is developed

Refutatio

Analyzes arguments of the opposition and refutes them with facts

Peroratio

Closing part of an argument

Narration

Giving a spoken or written account

Description

A spoken or written representation of a person, object, or event

Process Analysis

What goes into analyzing: defining a goal, structuring information, examine it for any patterns, present the findings

Exemplification

Explaining or illustrating a concept to make it clearer with examples

Comparison & Contrast

Finding similarities and differences

Classification & Division

Classifications groups shared characteristic items, division divides them

Definition

What a word means

Cause & Effect

The reason behind the event and result of that event

Close Reading

Analyzing the text to make sure you avoid misinformation

Analysis

In depth examination

Colloquialisms

An informal word

Diction

The word choice in a piece of writing

Syntax

The structure of sentences

Metaphor

Comparing two things not using like or as