AP Language and Composition Vocabulary Terms 21 to 40

appealing to logical reasoning and sound evidence

• rhetorical question

• allegory

• logos

• claim of value

appealing to the audience's shared values

• ethos

• pathos

• refutation

• metonymy

evoking and manipulating emotions

• grounds

• tone

• pathos

• qualifier

a concise or tersely phrased statement in principle, truth, or opinion. Often found in fields like law, politics, and art.

• claim of value

• claim of policy

• process analysis

• aphorism

In arguing a point, a speaker should always lend his opponent some credit for his/her ideas...

• compare/contrast

• lending credence

• qualifier

• exemplification

a question asked soley to produce an effect and not to elicit a reply.

• interrogative sentence

• refutation

• rhetorical question

• imperative sentence

when a writer delivers relevant opposing arguments.

• claim of definition

• qualifier

• claim of value

• refutation

a narrative in which character, action, and setting represent abstract concepts apart from the literal meaning...

• syllogism

• allegory

• metonymy

• idiom

a formula for presenting an argument logically. In its simplest form, it consists of three divisions: a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion.

• syllogism

• metonymy

• anecdote

• analogy

the substitution of a term naming an object closely associated with the word in mind for the word itself.

• motif

• cliche

• irony

• metonymy