AP Vocabulary 101-120

Question 1

concession (part 2)

Answer 1

writing style also shows that the writer is a logical and fair-minded person, able to realize that every argument has several sides to consider before it’s presented. This type of writing can be considered strong as it finds common ground between you and your opponent.

Question 2

portmanteau

Answer 2

literary device in which two or more words are joined together to form a new word. A portmanteau word is formed by blending parts of two or more words but it always refers to a single concept

Question 3

coinage of portmanteau

Answer 3

linking and blending of two or more words and the new word formed shares some meaning as original words. It is different from a compound word in that it could have a completely different meaning from the words that it was coined from.

Question 4

litotes

Answer 4

understatement, especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in “not bad at all”

Question 5

chiasmus

Answer 5

rhetoric reversal of the order of words in the second of two parallel phrases: he comes in triumph and in defeat departs.

Question 6

anadiplosis

Answer 6

rhetorical term for the repetition of the last word of one line or clause to begin the next.

Question 7

invective

Answer 7

verbally abusive attack

Question 8

circumlocution

Answer 8

use of an unnecessarily large number of words or an indirect means of expression to express an idea so as to effect an evasion in speech

Question 9

begging the question

Answer 9

supporting the claim with a reason that is really a restatement of the claim in different words

Question 10

adage

Answer 10

saying or proverb embodying a piece of common wisdom based on experience and often couched in metaphorical language

Question 11

verisimilitude

Answer 11

similar to truth; quality of realism in a work that persuades the reader that he/she is getting a vision of life as it is.

Question 12

malapropism

Answer 12

confused, comically, inaccurate, use of a long word or words
-ex: romeo and juliet the nurse says” i desire some confidence with you sir”

Question 13

cadence

Answer 13

rising and falling rhythm of speech especially in free verse or prose

Question 14

false analogy

Answer 14

error in assuming that because two things are alike in some ways, that they are alike in all ways

Question 15

hasty generalization

Answer 15

unsound inductive inference based on insufficient, inadequate, unspecified evidence

Question 16

non-sequitur

Answer 16

statement or idea that fails to follow logically from the one before

Question 17

post hoc

Answer 17

because one thing follows another, it is held to cause the other

Question 18

ad hominen

Answer 18

instead of attacking an assertion, the argument attacks the person who made the assertion

Question 19

polyphasic

Answer 19

excessive talking

Question 20

diatribe

Answer 20

bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack, or criticism. A bitter and abusive speech or writing