1st Semester Set 2 AP Lang Vocab

Scornful

feeling or expressing contempt or derision.

Inflammatory

arousing or intended to arouse angry or violent feelings.

Compassionate

feeling or showing sympathy and concern for others.

Pretentious

attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed.

Sympathetic

feeling, showing, or expressing sympathy.

Appeal to Ethos

persuades an audience by emphasizing the speaker's or writer's character, credibility, and trustworthiness

Appeal to Pathos

a persuasive technique that uses emotional manipulation to connect with an audience and persuade them to accept an argument

Appeal to Logos

a rhetorical strategy that uses logic, reason, facts, statistics, and credible evidence to persuade an audience

Rhetorical Questions

a question asked in order to create a dramatic effect or to make a point rather than to get an answer.

Logical Fallacy

an error in reasoning that makes an argument invalid or weakens its logic, even if it sounds convincing