AP Language: Rhetorical Terms Flashcards
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| 4822357075 | allegory | a representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms | 0 | |
| 4822362322 | ethos | appeal to ethics, moving the credibility of the speaker | 1 | |
| 4822364357 | extended metaphor | a metaphor introduced and then further developed throughout all or part of the literary work | 2 | |
| 4822367893 | logos | use of logic, reason, and evidence by the author/speaker to prove the truth | 3 | |
| 4822373071 | metaphor | comparison between two unlike things | 4 | |
| 4822375336 | narrative | a story or account of events, experiences, or the like whether true or fictitious | 5 | |
| 4822379633 | pathos | author/speakers power of stirring emotions | 6 | |
| 4822381291 | simile | a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared | 7 | |
| 4822384342 | symbolism | the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities | 8 | |
| 4822386377 | syntax | the arrangement of words and phrases to create well formed sentences in a language | 9 | |
| 4822392190 | alliteration | the rhetorical device of commencing adjacent or closely connected words with the same sound or syllable | 10 | |
| 4822396125 | anaphora | where one element in a sentence take its meaning or reference from another | 11 | |
| 4822404720 | anecdote | a short and amusing story about a real incident or story often with a deeper meaning | 12 | |
| 4822409139 | antistrophe | the repetition of words in the reversed or | 13 | |
| 4822415728 | antithesis | a person or things that is the direct opposite of someone or something else | 14 | |
| 4822420672 | apostrophe | used when a speakers addresses someone or something that isn't in the poem | 15 | |
| 4822430807 | archetype | a very typical example of a certain person or thing | 16 | |
| 4822434260 | chiasmus | a figure of speech by the which the order of the words in the first of two parallel clauses is reversed in the second | 17 | |
| 4822439481 | euphemism | a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be to rash or blunt | 18 | |
| 4822444627 | hyperbole | exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally | 19 | |
| 4822446263 | litotes | ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary | 20 | |
| 4822450558 | metonymy | the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant | 21 | |
| 4822453836 | motif | a distinctive feature or dominant idea in artistic or literary composition | 22 | |
| 4822457795 | paradox | a seemingly absurd or self contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true | 23 | |
| 4822461851 | pathetic fallacy | the attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things are animals especially in literature | 24 | |
| 4822466546 | personification | a person, animal, or object regarded as representing or embodying a quality, concept, or thing | 25 | |
| 4822471264 | symploce | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is used successfully at the beginning of two or more clauses or sentences | 26 | |
| 4822474704 | synecdoche | a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa | 27 | |
| 4822479179 | rhetorical question | a figure of speech in the form of a question that is asked to make a point rather than elicit an answer | 28 |