AP Exam Common Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. The argument(s) against the author's position.
  2. 3. Explaining something complex by comparing it to something more simple.
  3. 5. Offering a brief narrative episode. This device can serve many functions in a text—for example, introducing an issue, serving as evidence, to illustrate a point, and so on.
  4. 8. Making a brief reference to the cultural canon—e.g. the Bible, Shakespeare, classical mythology, etc.
  5. 9. Setting up a source as credible and trustworthy.
  6. 11. The use of spoken or written word (or a visual medium) to convey your ideas and convince an audience.
  7. 12. The literal, dictionary-definition meaning of a word.
Down
  1. 1. A phrase or assertion that appears to contradict itself (but the contradiction itself may have its own meaning).
  2. 3. appeals Three different methods of appealing to an audience to convince them—ethos, logos, and pathos.
  3. 4. The use of stylistic devices to reveal an author's attitude toward a subject.
  4. 6. The implied meaning of a word; words can broadly have positive, negative, or neutral connotations.
  5. 7. Agreeing with the opposing viewpoint on a certain smaller point (but not in the larger argument).
  6. 10. The way sentences are grammatically constructed.