Ap lang vocab
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- encumbered
- weigh down or burden
- hyperbole
- over exaggeration
- generalization
- a point that a speaker/writer generates on the basis of considering a number of examples
- syntax
- the order of words in a sentence
- ingratiating
- capable of winning favor-pleasing
- convalescent
- to recover health and strength gradually after sickness or weakness
- metaphor
- comparison without using the words like/as
- onomatopoeia
- literary device in which the sound of a word is related to its meaning
- sepulchral
- funereal, typical of a tomb, extremely gloomy
- vapid
- dull, uninteresting, tiresome
- gossamer
- thin, light, delicate, a very thin, light cloth
- efferent
- to carry away
- rhetorical triangle
- a diagram showing the relations of a writer or speaker and text in a rhetorical situation
- context
- the convergence of time and audience
- detached
- standing by itself or seperate
- anaphora
- repitition of group of words at the beginning of successive clauses
- aura
- that which surrounds (as an atmosphere), a distinctive air or personal quality
- soporific
- tending to cause sleep
- exhortative
- serving to urge strongly
- persona
- the person the speaker pretends to be or conveys
- mood
- the feeling that a text is intended to produce in the audience
- parallelism
- a set of similarly structured words , phrases, or clauses that appears in a sentence or paragraph
- major premise
- some irrefutable generalization about the world
- jargon
- the specialized vocab of a particular group
- filch
- to steal, especially in a sneaky way
- litotes
- understatement
- chiasmus
- inverted relationship between syntactic element of parallel phrases
- inscrutable
- incapable of being understood
- irrevocable
- incapable of being changed
- sleazy
- thin or flimsy in texture, cheap, ethically low or disreputable
- hypothetical(s)
- involving an assumption or concession made for sake of argument
- aphorism
- concise statement of a principle
- contraband
- illegal traffic, smuggled goods, illegal
- querulous
- peevish, complaining
- blazon
- to adorn or embellish, to publish widely
- mnemonic
- a systematic aid to memory
- intention
- the goal the speaker hopes to achieve with the text aka purpose
- aggrandize
- to increase in greatness, power, or wealth, to build upon or intensify
- aesthetic reading
- reading for experience, for the chance to enter the world that the text presents
- logos
- appeal to logic/knowledge
- reverberate
- to re-echo, resound, to reflect
- amorphous
- shapeless, without definite form, of no particular type or character, without organization
- ethos
- appeal to creditability/ character
- insular
- relating to, situated on an island, isolated in outlook
- personification
- giving of human characteristics to inanimate objects
- repertoire
- a set of assumptions, skills, and experiences that a reader brings to a text to make meaning
- rhetoric
- art of analyzing all the choices so that the text becomes meaningful
- complex sentence
- a sentence with one independent and 1 or more dependent clause
- oxymoron
- words with contradictory meanings (ex: jumbo shrimp)
- remonstrate
- to argue or plead with something
- dialect
- describable patterns of language--- or grammar or vocab used by a particular ethnic or cultural population
- straitlaced
- extremely strict in regard to moral standards or conduct, prudish
- genre
- classification of writing
- minor premise
- particular statement that falls under the general category
- ellipsis
- omission of words meaning at which is provided by overall context of passage
- scheme
- artful variations from typical formation and arrangement of words or sentences
- contemptuous
- feeling of that of despising or disdain
- flout
- to mock, treat with contempt
- autonomy
- self- government, political- control
- efferent reading
- reading for information, for the facts or ideas that readers can do something with
- affable
- courteous and pleasant, sociable, easy to speak to
- incorrect rhetoric definition
- the art of writing/ reading in a purposeful/meaningful way
- diction
- word choice
- fractious
- tending to be troublesome, unruly
- inversion
- change in normal world order- placement of verb before subject
- effacement
- to eliminate as if by wearing away a surface (to cause to vanish)
- peroration
- in ancient roman oratory, its the part of the speech in which the speaker would draw together the entire argument
- amnesty
- a general pardon for an offense against a government
- exordium
- in ancient roman oratory, it is the introduction of the speech
- analogy
- compare two things
- infer
- to find out by reasoning, to hint or suggest
- repudiate
- to disown, reject
- waif
- a piece of property found but unclaimed or something found without an owner and especially by chance
- partition
- In ancient roman oratory, it is the part of a speech where the speaker would divide the main topic into parts
- precept
- to rule of conduct or action
- rhetorical choices
- the particular choices a writer or speaker makes to achieve meaning and effect
- unwieldy
- not easily carried, handled because of size or complexity
- compound sentence
- a sentence with two or more independent clauses
- simile
- a type of comparison that uses the word like/as
- apostrophe
- type of monologue where nature is addressed as though human (personification)
- rhetor
- the speaker who uses elements of rhetoric in effectively in oral or written text
- rhetorical question
- a question posed by speaker not to seek an answer but to affirm or deny a point
- transient
- lasting only a short time
- compound- complex sentence
- a sentence with two or more independent clauses and one or more independent clauses
- alliteration
- repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning/middle of adjacent wordss
- prologue
- the preface or intro to a literary work
- assonance
- repetition of vowel sounds at the beginning/middle of adjacent words
- caveat
- a warning or caution to prevent misunderstandings
- dramatistic pentad
- invention strategy developed by Kenneth Burke that invites a speaker/ writer to create indentities for the act, agent, agency, scene, and purpose
- stance
- a writer's apparent attitude toward the audience
- ghetto
- a quarter of a city in which members of a minority, example: jews, live especially because of social, economic, or legal pressure
- resilient
- able to return to an original shape or form
- leery
- suspicious- "proceed with caution"
- trope
- variations from expected modes of expression of thoughts and ideas
- salutary
- beneficial, helpful
- konnoi topoi
- people's topics (ordinary patterns of reasoning)
- jovial
- markedly good- humored
- correct rhetoric definition
- the art of analyzing all the choices involving language that a writer , speaker might make in a situation so that the text becomes meaningful and effectively
- allusion
- reference to another text or body of knowledge
- euphemism
- indirect expression of unpleasant information in such a way to lesson its impact
- scathing
- bitterly severe, causing great harm
- equitable
- fair, just
- claim(s)
- the ultimate generalization backed up by support
- pathos
- appeal to emotion
- style
- the choices that the writers/speakers make in language for effect
- simple sentence
- a sentence with one independent clause
- scurrilous
- coarsely abusive, foul- mouthed
- paternal
- of or relating to or like that of a father
- scourge
- to whip, punish severely
- sedulous
- persistent, showing determination
- axiomatic
- self- evident, expressing a universally accepted principle or ruler
- invalid
- not valid or proven true--- or being sickly
- extricate
- to free from entanglements, to remove with effort
- syllogism
- logical reasoning from inarguable premises
- propensity
- a natural inclination
- erudite
- scholarly, learned