repetition of the same sound beginning serveral wordss in sequence | ||
brief reference to a person, event, place or work of art | ||
repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases | ||
repetition of words in reverse order | ||
opposition, or contrast, of idease or words in a parallel structure | ||
use of outdated words | ||
omission of conjunctions (ex. and) btw. coordinate phrases (uses commas instead) | ||
sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning fo the sentence, then builds and adds on | ||
calls to action (ex. Please recycle.) | ||
sentence used to command (ex. Think small.) | ||
Inverted order of words in a sentence | ||
placement of two things close together to emphasize contrasts | ||
comparison of two dissimilar objects w/o like or as | ||
using a single feature to represent the whole | ||
paradoxical justraposition of words that seem to contradict each other | ||
similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases or clauses | ||
sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end | ||
attribution of a lifelike quality to an inanimate object | ||
a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for an answer | ||
use of two different words in a grammatically similar way, but producing different, often incongruous meanings (ex. I caught two fish and a cold.) | ||
a succession of words linked by conjunctions (ex. and) | ||
a diversity of voices (ex. two people telling a story) | ||
something that refers to itself (ex. This is a sentence.) | ||
using part of something to represent the whole | ||
feelings associated with a word | ||
dictionary definition of a word | ||
a three part sentence usually with parallel parts of increasing length or importance (ex. I came, I saw, I conquered) | ||
use of a longer phrase in place of a possible shorter form of expression | ||
rhetorical repetition of last word or phrase of one sentence in the beginning of the next | ||
understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the contrary (ex. she was not unhappy) | ||
the suggestion, by deliberately concise treatment of a topic, that much of significance is being omitted, as in "not to mention other faults.", suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted |
AP Comp & Rhetoric
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