AP Language and Composition Summer Assignment Rhetorical Terms

Vocabulary flashcards generated from the AP Language and Composition summer assignment term list.

Rhetorical Situation

A category in rhetorical analysis that includes Context, Purpose, Subject, Occasion, Audience, Persona, Exigency, and Constraints.

Flashback (analepsis)

A narrative technique term included in the AP Language and Composition summer assignment list.

Flash-forward (prolepsis)

A narrative technique term listed in the AP Language and Composition rhetorical terms list.

Rhetorical Purpose

A category of rhetorical goals listed as To persuade, To inform, and To Entertain.

Rhetorical Modes

A category including Description, Narration, Argument, Exposition, Example/Illustration, Definition, Comparison, Contrast, Analysis, Division and Classification, Analogy, and Cause and Effect.

Persuasive Strategies

A category including terms such as Inductive Reasoning, Deductive Reasoning, Defend, Challenge, Qualify, Argument/Claim, Premise, Syllogism, Refutation, Rebuttal, Counterargument, Rhetorical Question, Anecdote, and Diction.

Logical Fallacies

A category of terms that includes Ad Hominem, Circumlocution, Glittering Generalities, Bandwagon, False Dilemma, Slippery Slope, Hasty Generalization, and Red Herring.

Synechdoche

A figurative language term listed alongside Metaphor, Allusion, Simile, Personification, Metonymy, Apostrophe, and Symbolism.

Sound Strategies

A category of rhetorical devices consisting of Cacophony, Euphony, and Onomatopoeia.

Change in Word Order

A category of syntactic devices that includes Hyperbation, Antanaclasis, Anastrophe, Chiasmus, Anacolution, Zeugma, Apposition, and Parenthesis.

Repetition

A category of rhetorical terms that includes Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance, Polyptoton, Anaphora, Epistrophe, Anadiplosis, and Antemetabole.

Humor and Word Play

A category of rhetorical terms that includes Satire, Irony, Verbal Irony, Situational Irony, Pun, Antiphrasis, Parody, Caricature, Hyperbole, and Litotes.

Contradiction and Contrast

A category of rhetorical devices containing Oxymoron, Antithesis, Paradox, and Juxtaposition.

Meaning and Tone

A category featuring terms such as Semantics, Tone, Objective (tone), Subjective (tone), Didactic (tone), Pedantic (tone), Denotation, Connotation, Ambiguity, Ambivalence, Innuendo, Euphemism, Dysphemism, Aphorism, Epithet, and Epigram.

Rhetorical Appeals

A core rhetorical category composed of Logos, Pathos, Ethos, and Kairos.

Language Style

A category of terms that includes Colloquial, Jargon, Invective, Expletive, and Homily.

Syntactic Devices

A category of rhetorical techniques including Enjambment, Isocolon, Asyndoton, Ellipsis, and Parallelism.

Device of Interrogation

A category of rhetorical terms consisting of Rhetorical Question and Hypophora.