AP Language Rhetorical Terms 1-14 Flashcards

10722189216	allegory	The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning.	0
10722189217	alliteration	Repetition of initial consonant sounds	1
10722189218	allegory	Ex. "Animal Farm" George Orwell	2
10722189219	alliteration	As in "she sells sea shells"	3
10722189220	allusion	A direct or indirect reference to something which is presumably commonly known, such as an event, book, myth, place, or work of art.	4
10722189221	allusion	Ex. "Plan ahead: it wasn't raining when Noah built the ark"	5
10722189222	ambiguity	The multiple meanings, either intentional or unintentional, of a word, phrase, sentence, or passage.	6
10722189223	analogy	A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them; may explain something unfamiliar by associating it with or pointing out its similarity to something more familiar.	7
10722189224	analogy	Ex. "He that voluntarily continues ignorance is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces, as to him that should extinguish the tapers of a lighthouse might justly be imputed the calamities of shipwrecks."	8
10722189225	anaphora	One of the devices of repetition, in which the same expression (word or words) is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences.	9
10722189226	anaphora	Ex. "They are masters who instruct us without rod or ferule, without angry words, without clothes or money."	10
10722189227	antecedent	The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.	11
10722189228	antithesis	Ex: "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose"	12
10722189229	antithesis	Figure of balance in which two contrasting ideas are intentionally juxtaposed, usually through parallel structure; a contrasting of opposing ideas in adjacent phrases, clauses, or sentences.	13
10722189230	aphorism	A statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle.	14
10722189231	apostrophe	A figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. It is an address to someone or something that cannot answer.	15
10722189232	apostrophe	Ex. William Wordsworth addresses John Milton as he writes, "Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour:/England hath need of thee."	16
10722189233	asyndeton	Consists of omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses.	17
10722189234	asyndeton	Ex. On his return he received medals, honors, treasures, titles, fame. They spent the day wondering, searching, thinking, understanding.	18
10722189235	atmosphere	The emotional mood created by the entirety of a literary work, established partly by the setting and partly by the author's choice of objects that are described.	19