Rhetorical Terms
Ms. Gypin's AP Lang class
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- Experience
- Personally observing, encountering, or undergoing something
- Verbal Irony
- a writer or speaker says one thing but really means something completely different
- Satire
- a literary composition in which folly and vice are held up to scorn and ridicule
- Empiricism
- branch of philosophy, everything we know based off our experiences
- Hedonism
- pursuit of or devotion to pleasure
- Pragmatic
- Practical and the concern of making choices that are useful
- Logos
- persuasion using logic or reason
- Homily
- an inspirational saying or cliche
- Non Sequitur
- A statement containing an illogical conclusion; uses false proof
- Naturalistic Detail
- natural detail in literature or art
- Didactic
- intended to instruct
- Prose
- writing that resembles everyday speech
- Paradox
- a statement contrary to common belief
- Litotes
- an understatement, expressing affirmation by using its negative
- Exposition
- the act of explaining or exposing
- Relativism
- any theory holding that criteria of judgment are relative, varying with individuals and their enviroments
- Qualify
- To modify an argument by providing detail
- Rationale
- An explanation of controlling principles of opinion
- Onomatopoeia
- sound words
- Indeterminism
- Human actions are deliberate by choice and fee will
- Parody
- a work created to mock, comment on , or poke fun at an original work, it's subject, or author
- Dichotomy
- division of a class into 2 mutually exclusive groups
- Dramatic irony
- When the reader is aware of an inconsistency between a fictional of a non-fictional character's perception of a situation and the truth of the situation
- Euphemism
- Mild word replacing an offensive one
- Metonymy
- a name or substitution for another thing
- Irony of Situation
- a contradiction between what we expect to happen and what really does take home
- Denotation
- the explicit or direct meaning of a word or set of words
- Logical Fallacy
- the fallacy takes the for of: if s then y, y therefore z. sounds logical but is untrue
- Inversion
- reversal of the natural or usual order of words
- Deduction
- a form of reasoning that begins with a generalization, and then applies the generalization to a specific cases
- Determinism
- doctrine or belief that all events belong to a predetermines sequence of events
- Juxtaposition
- the act or an instance of placing tow or more things side by side
- Connotation
- The inferred meaning of a word
- Invective
- Insulting or abusive word or expression
- Oxymoron
- a contradictory statement
- Pedantic
- Overly concerned with minute details or formalisms
- Red Herring
- A side issue introduced into and argument to distract from the main argument
- Interior Monologue
- a form of stream of conscience writing that represents the inner thought of a character
- Pathos
- Persuasion using emotions
- Ethos
- persuasion using authority