AP Language Rhetorical Strategies Flashcards

12029212558	Personification	The assigning of human qualities to inanimate objects or concepts. An example: Wordsworth's "the sea that bares her bosom to the moon."	0
12029212559	Antithesis	the presentation of two contrasting images. The ideas are balanced by phrase, clause, or paragraphs. "To be or not to be . . ." "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times . . ." "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country . . ."	1
12029212560	Oxymoron	From the Greek for "pointedly foolish," ___ is a figure of speech wherein the author groups apparently contradictory terms. Simple examples include "jumbo shrimp" and "cruel kindness."	2
12029212561	Hyperbole	a figure of speech using deliberate exaggeration or overstatement	3
12029212562	Anaphora	repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row. This is a deliberate form of repetition and helps make the writer's point more coherent.	4
12029212563	Theme	The central idea or message of a work, the insight it offers into life. Usually, __ is unstated in fictional works, but in nonfiction, the __ may be directly stated, especially in expository or argumentative writing.	5
12029212564	Onomatopoeia	a figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of words. Simple examples include such words as buzz, hiss, hum.	6
12029212565	Metaphor	a direct comparison between dissimilar things. "Your eyes are stars" is an example.	7
12029212566	Symbol	generally, anything that represents, stands for, something else. Usually, a ___ is something concrete—such as an object, action, character, or scene—that represents something more abstract.	8
12029212568	Imagery	The sensory details or figurative language used to describe, arouse emotion, or represent abstractions. On a physical level, __ uses terms related to the five senses; we refer to visual, auditory, tactile, gustatory, or olfactory. For example, a rose may present visual __ while also representing the color in a woman's cheeks.	9
12029212569	Irony	The contrast between what is stated explicitly and what is really meant. The difference between what appears to be and what actually is true. This can have several forms: situational, verbal, dramatic.	10
12029212570	Alliteration	The repetition of initial consonant sounds, such as "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."	11
12029212572	Situational Irony	a type of irony in which events turn out the opposite of what was expected.	12
12029212573	Pathos	an appeal based on emotion.	13
12029212574	Logos	an appeal based on logic or reason	14
12029212575	Verbal Irony	In this type of irony, the words literally state the opposite of the writer's true meaning	15
12029212577	Denotation	the literal or dictionary meaning of a word	16
12029212578	Dramatic Irony	In this type of irony, facts or events are unknown to a character in a play or a piece of fiction but known to the reader, audience, or other characters in the work	17
12029212579	Connotation	the interpretive level or a word based on its associated images rather than its literal meaning.	18
12029212580	Repetition	The duplication, either exact or approximate, or any element of language, such as sound, word, phrase, clause, sentence, or grammatical pattern.	19
12029212586	Parallelism	refers to the grammatical or rhetorical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity.	20
12029212603	Diction	the author's choice of words that creates tone, attitude, and style, as well as meaning	21