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AP Rhetorical Terms

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12th Grade

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AP Rhetorical Terms
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The relationship between the author, the audience, the text/message, and the context.

Rhetorical Appeals

DIDLS

Aristotelian appeals

Rhetorical Triangle

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Similar to mood, this term describes the author’s attitude toward his material, the audience, or both

Tone

Mood

Style

Atmosphere

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This term has two purposes: (1) an evaluation of the sum of the choices an author makes in blending diction, syntax, figurative language, and other literary devices. Some authors’ _______ are so idiosyncratic that we can quickly recognize works by the same author (or a writer emulating that author’s _________).

Style

Diction

Imagery

Details

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life. Usually it is unstated in fictional works, but in nonfiction, it may be directly stated, especially in expository or argumentative writing.

Theme

Tone

Attitude

Mood

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them. It can explain something unfamiliar by associating it with or pointing out its similarity to something more familiar.

Ambiguity
Analogy
Anecdote
Antecedent

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The use of language in a non-literal way; i.e. metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole

Aristotelian appeals

Figurative Language

Evidence

Symbolism

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Three different methods of appealing to an audience to convince them—ethos, logos, and pathos.

Persuastive Tools

Argumentation

Ariestrotsky Appeals

Aristotelian appeals

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