AP Eng 10 vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Active Voice | opposite of passive voice, essentially any sentence with an active verb |
| Ad Hominem | An attack on the person rather than the issues at hand; a common fallacy, especially during an election year. |
| Allusion | a reference that recalls another work, another time in history, another famous person, etc |
| anaphora | in rhetoric; deliberate repitition of a word/phrase at the beginning of several poetic lines, clause, paragraphs, seen in political speeches |
| antithesis | an observation/claim that's in opposition to your/author's claim |
| apostrophe | praery-like; address to someone not present, like deity/muse |
| appositive | AKA noun phrase; appositive modifies the noun next to it, always with commas |
| bandwagon | argument "everyone's doing it" fallacy/used by politicians trying to get voters |
| begging the question | argument that occurs when the speaker states a claim that includes a word/phrase that needs to be defined before the argument can proceed |
| complex sentence | a sentence structure that's a combination of a dependent clause and an independent clause |
| dialect | a regional speech pattern; the way people talk in different parts of the world. also referred to as "colloguial language" |
| euphemism | to use a safer/nicer word for something others find inappropriate or unappealing |
| fallacy | a failure of logical reasoning; they appear to make an argument reasonable, but falsely so. |
| gerund | a verb ending in -ing that serves as a noun |
| juxtaposition | making one idea more dramatic by placing it next to its opposite. |
| malapropism | wordplay in which one word is mistakenly substituted for another that sounds similar. |
| poisoning the well | a person/character is introduced with language that suggests that he isn't at all reliable before the reader knows anthing about him |
| premise | a claim, a statement of the truth, at least to the person making the argument. |
| red herring | an argument that distracts the reader by raising issues irrelevant to the case. It's like being given too many suspects in a murder mystery. |
| Rhetorical question | a question whose answer is assumed, designed to force the reader to respond in a predetermined manner. |
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