AP Language final S1

Question 1

What is rhetoric?

Answer 1

The art of using language effectively and persuasively to inform, influence, or motivate an audience

Question 2

What is rhetorical situation?

Answer 2

Conditions as to why the author made rhetorical choices (SPACE)

Question 3

What are the parts of space and their meaning?

Answer 3

S:Speaker-The author of the text, their ethos, and what’s important to them
P:Purpose-The goals or accomplishments the author is seeking
A:The audience-Who this is written for and what their past knowledge, values, interests are
C:Context-What was going on in the world when this was written
E:Exigence-What made the writer want to write this?

Question 4

How to appeal to ethos, pathos, logos

Answer 4

Pathos:Pull on the heartstrings of the audience, appeal to audience emotion not the speakers
Logos:Engage the audience’s sense of logic or reasoning. Writers make clear, concise, detailed arguments
Ethos: A writer’s background, character, status/position, or association, or relating to the audience to build ethos. Appear credible

Question 5

What is CHORES?

Answer 5

C:Current events
H:History
O:Observations or personal experiences
R:Reading (books)
E:Entertainment
S:Sports or Science

Question 6

Difference between claim of fact, value, policy

Answer 6

Fact-True or False
Policy-Law or no law
Value-Good or bad

Question 7

What is juxtaposition?

Answer 7

When you compare/or place two different objects (next to each other)

Question 8

When to use a semicolon

Answer 8

When you need to connect two closely related complete sentences (independent clauses). Also can be used with conjunctive adverbs like however, therefore, nevertheless, consequently, meanwhile

Question 9

When to use a colon

Answer 9

To connect a general statement to a specific statement

Question 10

Semicolon sentence pattern

Answer 10

Semicolon, no conjunction SV;SV

Singapore has 11,910 people square mile; Mongolia only has three

Question 11

Apathy

Answer 11

Lack of emotion or interest

Question 12

Doubtful or uncertain due to obscurity

Capable in being understood in many different ways

Answer 12

Ambiguous

Question 13

Very hot; glowing

Passionate, marked by intense emotion

Answer 13

Fervent

Question 14

A wandering homeless person; a tramp; wanderer

Accidental, way word, random

Answer 14

Vagrant

Question 15

Compound sentence with a conjunctive adverb

Answer 15

She exercised everyday and cut back on her food; however, she still didn’t lose any weight

However, therefore, consequently, likewise, hence, thus

Question 16

To subvert or weaken

To remove or wash away supporting material from beneath

Answer 16

Undermine

Question 17

Dealing with facts as perceived without bias

Based on sensory experience

Answer 17

Objective

Question 18

Of doubtful authenticity; spurious

Answer 18

Apocrphyal

Question 19

Lacking memory or mindful attention; Lacking active conscious knowledge

Answer 19

Oblivious

Question 20

Compound sentence with elliptical construction

Answer 20

S V DO; S V DO

Bill played a musical number by Bach; Jill, one by beethoven

Question 21

Dark, DIm, hidden in shadows; to hide

Not readily understood, not clearing expressed

Relatively unknown

Answer 21

Obscure

Question 22

To show deferential honor to; regard as worthy of great honor

Answer 22

Revere

Question 23

To mark or perceive the distinguishing or peculiar features of; differentiate

To recognize as separate, distinct

Answer 23

Discrimination

Question 24

Compound sentence with explanatory statement

Answer 24

General statement:specific statement

One thing you learn when you love the Red Sox like I do: How to lose and get up and fight another day

Question 25

To make beautiful with ornamentation

Answer 25

Embellish

Question 26

To publicly pronounce someone to be blameworthy or evil

Answer 26

Denounce

Question 27

To make changes, do something in a new way

Answer 27

Innovate

Question 28

Not flowing in a current or stream Not advancing or developing

Answer 28

Stagnant

Question 29

Marked by honest sincere expression

Answer 29

Candid

Question 30

Sentence with a series

Answer 30

A, B, and C Moe, Larry, and Curly make up the three stoges

Question 31

Sentence with a series but no conjuction

Answer 31

A,B,C These griefs, these woes, these sorrows make me old

Question 32

Merciless; inhumane; having no just foundation or provocation Being without check or limitation; extravagant; lewd, bawdy

Answer 32

Wanton

Question 33

To perceive with senses

Answer 33

Discern

Question 34

Attracting or seeking to attract attention, admiration, or envy; overly elaborate or conspicuous

Answer 34

Ostentatious

Question 35

Sentence with a series, multiple conjunctions

Answer 35

A and B and C polysyndeton Even though he is smart, I have never seen Keith arrogant or annoyed or impatient

Question 36

Likely to cause disagreement

Answer 36

Contentious

Question 37

To scold, usually gently

Answer 37

Reprove

Question 38

An inclination to emphasize the negative or to expect the worst outcome

Answer 38

Pessimism

Question 39

Rapidly and superficially done or produced; hasty

Answer 39

Cursory

Question 40

To destroy something completely so that nothing is left

Answer 40

Obliterate

Question 41

A series of balanced pairs

Answer 41

A and B, C and D, E and F The textbook clearly showed the distinction between prose and poetry, denotation and connotation, deduction and induction

Question 42

Wildly extravagant Completely given up to dissipation; shamelessly immoral

Answer 42

Profligate

Question 43

A mean, grasping person, especially one who is stingy with money

Answer 43

Miser

Question 44

Said or done as a joke; playful Given to jesting; habitually jolly

Answer 44

Jocular

Question 45

Designed to convey information Relating to or containing exposition (a setting forth of the meaning of purpose of writing; explanation designed to convey information)

Answer 45

Expository

Question 46

A long pillow or cushion To give a boost to

Answer 46

Bolster

Question 47

a single appositive, enclosed in dashes or parentheses or commas

Answer 47

s-apoositive-v s(appositive)v s,appositive,v My latest desire, to go to Europe this summer, will have to wait until I have more money

Question 48

A noisy quarrel; a brawl

Answer 48

Fracas

Question 49

Dependent on chance circumstances, unknown conditions, or uncertain development Characterized by a lack of security or stability that threatens with danger

Answer 49

Precarious

Question 50

Exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics A distortion so gross as to seem like a caricature

Answer 50

Caricature

Question 51

Introductory series of appositives

Answer 51

Appositive, appositive, appositive-summary word S V Hawaiians, Filipinos, Japanese, Chinese-these ethnic groups make up much of Hawaii's diverse population

Question 52

To introduce immunologically active material (antigen, antibody) into, in order to treat or prevent a disease; to introduce something into the mind of To protect

Answer 52

Inoculate

Question 53

To refuse abruptly; to stop short and refuse to go forward

Answer 53

Balk

Question 54

Producing no injury, harmless; inoffensive, insipid

Answer 54

Innocuous

Question 55

Existing or being everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered

Answer 55

Ubiquitous

Question 56

To make an agreement or covenant to do or forbear something; to specify as a condition

Answer 56

Stipulate

Question 57

Vitally important, critical; related a point around which something turns, concerning a marked change

Answer 57

Pivotal

Question 58

The act, process, or practice of settling a dispute in a court of law

Answer 58

Litigation

Question 59

The faculty or phenomenon or finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for

Answer 59

Serendipity