AP Language (Round 1)

An argument that refuses to see any other side. At all. Nope. Your opinion is wrong.

• propaganda

• pathos

• polemic

• political

An acknowledgement that the other side has some merit. Some specific sub-arguments are valid.

• concession

• refutation

• counter argument

• logos

Aristotle's triangle. What are the three points?

• speaker, audience, subject

• purpose, audience, speaker

• speaker, audacity, spontaneity

Calm recognition of the other side. Identifies the arguments of the opposition.

• refutation

• counter argument

• paradox

• concession

Why the other side is wrong - your proof.

• concession

• counter argument

• refutation

• polemic

connotation

• associations with a word

• pathos surrounding a word

• current definition of a word

• speaker's interpretation of a word

denotation

• associations with a word

• current definition of the word

• dictionary definition of a word

• musical note definition

the art of persuasion (according to Aristotle)

• rhetoric

• ethos

• logos

• pathos

the voice of the piece, Greek for mask

• persona

• speaker

• ethos

• character

the creator and/or deliverer of the piece

• speaker

• author

• persona

• creator