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AP English Sem 1 Final Review
Semester 1 Final Review
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English
11th Grade
01/02/2011

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Term
The All Natural Fallacy
(Division/Composition)
Definition
If it's round and it's red, it's an apple.
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Appeal to Popularity
Definition
I should ditch class, so everyone should ditch class.
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Reductio ad Absurdum
Definition
If your friends jumped off a cliff, would you?
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The Fallacy of the Antecedent
Definition
I never drowned in this pool, therefore I never will.
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The False Analogy
Definition
Since I can kick a soccer ball far, if I join the golf team, i can hit the golf ball far.
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Misinterpreting the Evidence
Definition
I saw a bank being robbed, so I will never put my money in a bank.
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Hasty Generalization
Definition
Since Peter is a procrastinator, All AP english kids are procrastinators,
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The Fallacy of Ignorance
Definition
Since he didn't have an allaby, he committed the crime.
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Tautology
Definition
The Senior getting the highest grade is the Valedictorian.
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Many Questions
(Complex Question)
Definition
Do you believe in Jesus Christ?
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False Dilemma
Definition
If you don't go to college, you won't be successful.
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Double Bind
Definition
Confess to witchcraft, or hang.
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Complex Cause
Definition
Since you stayed up last last night, you failed your math test today.
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Red Herring
Definition
I know your car isn't working right. But, if you had gone to the store one day earlier, you'd not be having problems.
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Straw Man
Definition
We shouldn't do homework, because it makes our hands work.
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Attacking the Person
(Ad Hominem)
Definition
You are so stupid your argument couldn't possibly be true.
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Slippery Slope
Definition
if I fail this test, I will not get into college.
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Post Hoc
Definition
Since the rooster cows, the sun comes up.
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Faulty Appeal to Authority
Definition
Experts agree that electric cars will end global warming.
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Unrepresentative Sample
Definition
The apples on the top of the box look good. The entire box of apples must therefore be good.
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Parallelism
Definition
Successive words, phrases, clauses with the same or very similar grammatical structure.
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Asyndeton
Definition
When normally occuring conjunctions are intentionally omitted in sentences.
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Polysyndeton
Definition
When one intentionally repeats a series of conjunctions.
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Cumulative Sentence
Definition
Begins with the main point, and is followed by one or more subordinate Clauses.
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Periodic Sentence
Definition
A long sentence in which the completion of the syntax and sense is delayed until the middle or end, usually after a sequence of balanced subordinate clauses.
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Zeugma
Definition
Use of a word to modify or govern 2 or more words although its use may be grammatically or logically correct with only one. She walked out the door and my life
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Anaphora
Definition
repeating of words that appear in the beginning of sentences.
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Epistrophe
Definition
When the last word or set of words in one sentece is repeated one or more times at the end of sentences.

Of the ppl, by the ppl, for the ppl
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Anadiplosis
Definition
When a word or phrase at the end of one clause is repeated at the beginning of the next clause.
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Antithesis
Definition
2 contrasting ideas are intentionally juxtaposed.

one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
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Oxymoron
Definition
2 words TOGETHER and contradict each other.
Term
Inversion
Definition
YODA!
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Metonymy
Definition
One word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated. (Crown- Royalty)
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Antimetabole
Definition
When words in one phrase or clause are replicated in reverse.

We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
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Archaic Diction
Definition
Language commonly used in an earlier time but rare in present-day usage except to suggest the older time

thou, wast, anon...
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Colloquialism
Definition
Informal Expressions
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Hyperbole
Definition
Deliberate exaggeration
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Personification
Definition
giving human-like qualities to a concrete object.
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Aphorism
Definition
concise statement contains a subjective truth or observation cleverly and pithily written.

Lost time is never found again.
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Apostrophe
Definition
A scheme in which a person or an abstract quality is directly addressed.

Freedom!! You are a beguiling mistress.
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Euphemism
Definition
an inoffensive word or phrase subs. for one considered offensive or hurtful

Dead: departed, moved on..etc.
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Litotes
Definition
A trope in which one makes a deliberate understatement for emphasis.
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Paradox
Definition
A statement that appears to contradict itself.

Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
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Cliche
Definition
Live ad Learn
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Rhetorical Question
Definition
Are you stupid?
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Appositive
Definition
The president o the usa, kind and warm hearted, nice..etc..
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Alliteration
Definition
repetition of initial consonant sounds in words that are next to or near one another
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Metaphor
Definition
an implied comparison is mde between two unlike things that actually have something in common.
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Simile
Definition
Comparison made using like or as.
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Diction
Definition
The filter of word choice.
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Simile
Definition
Comparison made using like or as.
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Diction
Definition
The filter of word choice.
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Syntax/Schemes
Definition
The funcion and effetiveness of how the rhetor structures his/her sentences.
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Tropes
Definition
The function and effectiveness of the rhetor's dictions in light of the larger purpose of the piece.
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Connotation
Definition
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Denotation
Definition
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Rhetoric
Definition
The are that humans use to process all the messages we send and receive.
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Rhetorical Situation
Definition
All the forces and factors that influence a rhetor during a speaking or writing task.
Term
Exigence
Definition
A motivating force
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Persona
Definition
The character that a writer or speaker converys to the audience.
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Audience
Definition
The person(s) who listen to a spoken text or read a written one and are capable of responding to it.
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Subject
Definition
The matter or main idea that a speaker or writer writes/speaks about.
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Context
Definition
The intersections of time, place, audience, and motivating factors in which a piece of writing or a speech is situated.
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Intention/Purpose
Definition
The goal a rhetor hopes to achieve in their text- what they want their audience to do, think, or believe.
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Genre
Definition
A classification by text.
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Logos
Definition
Logical reasoning
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Ethos
Definition
Character
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Pathos
Definition
Emotion
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Tone
Definition
how the rhetor uses language to establish tone as well as what the effect of a particular tone is on the audience.
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Connotation
Definition
An idea or meaning suggested by or associated with a word or thing
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Denotation
Definition
a direct specific meaning as distinct from an implied or associated idea.
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Allusion
Definition
A brief, usually indirect reference to a person, place, or event--real or fictional.
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