Ap Lang Midterm

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Milestones

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an action or event marking a significant change or stage in development.

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Integral

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necessary to make a whole complete; essential or fundamental.

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Brevity

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concise and exact use of words in writing or speech

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Strident

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presenting a point of view, especially a controversial one, in an excessively and unpleasantly forceful way

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Wry

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using or expressing dry, especially mocking, humor.

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Snide

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derogatory or mocking in an indirect way.

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Equivocal

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open to more than one interpretation; ambiguous

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Evoke

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bring or recall to the conscious mind.

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Erudition

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the quality of having or showing great knowledge or learning; scholarship.

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Catharsis

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the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions

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Elaboration

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result of going that extra mile, such as when your history teacher asks for five paragraphs on the Fall of Rome, and you write three pages

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Assertion

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the action of stating something or exercising authority confidently and forcefully.

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Irrefutable

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impossible to deny or disprove.

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Refutation

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part of an argument where a speaker or a writer encounters contradicting points of view

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Ambivalent

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having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone

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Deductive reasoning

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logical process in which a conclusion is based on the concordance of multiple premises that are generally assumed to be true

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Inductive reasoning

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logical process in which multiple premises, all believed true or found true most of the time, are combined to obtain a specific conclusion

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Sensibilities

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ability to appreciate and respond to complex emotional or aesthetic influences; sensitivity

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Ridicule

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the subjection of someone or something to contemptuous and dismissive language or behavior."he is held up as an object of ridicule"synonyms: mockery, derision, laughter, scorn, scoffing, contempt, jeering, sneering, sneers, jibes, jibing, teasing, taunts, taunting, badinage, chaffing, sarcasm, satire; More

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Artistic proof

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are proofs (or means of persuasion) that are created by a speaker

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Inartistic proof

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proofs (or means of persuasion) that are not created by a speaker—that is, proofs that are applied rather than invented

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Enthymeme

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an argument in which one premise is not explicitly stated

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Syllogism

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an instance of a form of reasoning in which a conclusion is drawn (whether validly or not) from two given or assumed propositions (premises), each of which shares a term with the conclusion, and shares a common or middle term not present in the conclusion (e.g., all dogs are animals; all animals have four legs; therefore all dogs have four legs ).

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Fragment syntax

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unfinished sentences, i.e. they don't contain a complete idea. A common fragment sentence in student writing is a dependent clause standing alone without an independent clause