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AP English III Vocabulary Set 1
Audience, Purpose, and Persona
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Language - English
11th Grade
02/16/2012

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Invention
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Ability to discover and generate ideas
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Arrangement
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Finding and developing materials; selection of detail
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Style
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Distinctives; Rhetorical analysis/the focus of literary analysis
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Memory
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Cultural literacy.
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Delivery
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Gestures, enunciation per Aristotle. Layout and design... Textual graphics... handwriting
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Narration
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Tells about a series of events
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Description
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Uses language to create a mood or emotion
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Exposition
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Is shown when something is explained or "set forth"
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Persuasion
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Uses logic, ethics, and emotional apparels (logos, ethos, pathos) to develop an effective means to convince the reader to think or act in a certain way.
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Logos
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Logical appeal is the strategic use of logic, claims, and evidence to convince an audience of a certain point
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Pathos
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Emotional appeals target the emotions of the reader to create some kind of connection with the writer. A lot of visual appeal is emotional in nature (think of advertisements, with their powerful imagery, colors, fonts, and symbols)
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Ethos
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Ethical appeal is used to establish the writer as fair, open-minded, honest, and knowledgeable about the subject matter. The writer creates a sense of him or herself as trustworthy and credible.
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Tone
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The writer's attitude, mood or moral outlook toward the subject and/or readers.
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Imagery
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The use of words to create pictures. An author can use a lively description to create vivid pictures in the mind or appeal to other sensory experiences.
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Diction
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The distinctive vocabulary of a particular author. "Concrete diction" refers to a use of words which are specific and "show" the reader a mental picture. "Abstract diction" refers to words which are general and "tell" something, without a picture.
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Detail
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To relate in particulars; to particularize; to report minutely and distinctly; to enumerate; to specify; as, he detailed all the facts in due order.
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Syntax
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An author's distinctive form of sentence construction. Distinctive forms include: very long sentences, very short sentences, parallelism, and repetition of key words or phrases.
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Connotation
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A literary device: a suggested, implied, or evocative meaning. For example, an author may use the figurative meaning of a word for its effect upon the reader.
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Denotation
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A literary device. The author uses an explicit or literal meaning of a word in order to emphasize a specific, important fact.
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Parallelism
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The use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, ect...
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Point of View
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The intellectual or emotional perspective held by a narrator or persona (not to be confused with the author) in connection with a story. The main points of view include first person participant, first person observer, third person omniscient, third person limited, and objective.
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Anaphora
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Conscious repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, classes, or paragraphs.
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