AP LANG - DEREK

exigence

the trigger point or the cause of a “speech”

occasion

the setting / surrounding context

persona

“Mask”.

(weird people go into saugnas)

polemic

argument style; harsh; no concessions

refutation

“refute”; denying opposing argument’s truth

rhetoric

persuasion techniques

semantics

branch linguistics studying how words came to be

SOAPS

subject, occasion, audience, purpose, speaker

syntax

word order

analogy

compares two things

anaphora

repeating same word/phrase at the start

(repeating ‘a’)

antimetabole

repeating words in reverse order

antithesis

opposite ideas next to each other

archaic diction

old word choice

archetype

recurring symbol/theme that represents human nature

(typical)

asyndeton

take away conjunctions (FANBOYS)

colloquialism

informal words better suited in a speech

cumulative sentence

main idea at beginning with building onto it

declarative sentence

declaring an idea

epistrophe

repeating a word at the end of a setence

hortative sentence

sentence urging you to do something but not MAKING you do it completely

imperitive sentences

IMPORTANT. you MUST do

inversion

inverting word order

juxtaposition

putting things next to each other to show similarities or differences

lexicon

a list of all the words used in a language or subject

motif

recurring idea that develops and explains the theme

oxymoron

paradoxical; “peaceful war” “seriously funny”

parallelism

similar sentence structure in related words; parallel

periodic sentence

main point withheld until the end; juice at end; starts with dependent clause; opposite of cumulative

synecdoche

part represents a whole

“California knows how to party” “hands for hire” “nice wheels outside”

vernacular

lingo of a region

zeugma

using two different words in two different ways