AP English Language Rhetorical Devices Flashcards

7236620594	hyperbole	A figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement.	0
7236623730	pun	A play on words that wittily exploits a double meaning	1
7236633366	allusion	A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art	2
7236634309	anaphora	the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of consecutive lines or sentences	3
7236640949	alliteration	the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words	4
7236645930	antithesis	A device used to create contrast by placing two parallel but opposite ideas in a sentence	5
7236648916	ethos	The appeal of a text to the credibility and character of the speaker, writer, or narrator	6
7236650753	pathos	appeal to emotion	7
7236651926	logos	an appeal to logic, and is a way of persuading an audience by reason.	8
7236655339	diction	word choice	9
7236656256	ellipsis	in a sentence, the omission of a word or words replaced by three periods	10
7236668155	personification		11