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Question 1

Anecdote

Answer 1

Short simple narrative of an incident, often used for humorous effect or to make a point.

Question 2

Argumentation

Answer 2

Writing the attempts to prove the validity of a point of view or an idea by presenting “reasoned” arguments; persuasive writing is a form of argumentation and is the focus of the AP language and composition program

Question 3

Allegory

Answer 3

an extended narrative, of an incident in prose or verse in which characters events and settings represent abstract qualities and in which the writer intends a second meaning to be read beneath the surface of the story; the underlying meaning may be moral, religious, political, or social

Question 4

Annotation

Answer 4

explanatory notes added to a text to explain, cite sources, or give bibliographic data in AP language you will need to demonstrate detailed annotation on most of your readings

Question 5

Antithesis

Answer 5

The presentation of two contrasting images. The ideas are balanced by words; phrases. clause, or paragraphs

Question 6

Rhetoric

Answer 6

Art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques. This is the CORE of the AP language program

Question 7

Colloquialism

Answer 7

A word or phrase (including slang) used in everyday conversation and informal writing but is often inappropriate in formal writing

Question 8

Connotation

Answer 8

Words suggested implied meaning because of its association in a readers mind. This is the opposite of denotation

Question 9

Consonance

Answer 9

Repetition of identical consonant sounds within two or more words in close proximity: boot/beat/best/brag, or even compound words, fulfill, ping-pong

Question 10

Caricature

Answer 10

Descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature of a persons appearance or a faucet of personality

Question 11

Coherence

Answer 11

the “quality” of a piece of writing in which all the parts contribute to the development of the central idea/theme or organizing principle

Question 12

Aphorism

Answer 12

A short, often witty, statement of a principle or truth about life. Benjamin Franklin was somewhat famous for these in poor Richards Almanac “The early bird gets the worm”

Question 13

Apostrophe

Answer 13

Usually in poetry, but sometimes in prose: the device of calling out to an imaginary absent person, thing, or personified abstraction

Question 14

Cacophony

Answer 14

Also referred to as hard, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose, the opposite of euphony

Question 15

Enumeration

Answer 15

rhetorical device used for listing the details or a process of mentioning words or phrases step by step it is a type of amplification or division in which a subject is further distributed into components or parts. Writers use this to clarify and detail understanding

Question 16

Analogy

Answer 16

comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it. It aims at explaining that idea or thing by comparing it to something that is familiar

Question 17

Parallelism

Answer 17

Is the use of components in a sentence that is grammatically the same; or similar in their construction sound, meaning, or meter examples are found in the literary works as well as in ordinary conversations

Question 18

Allusion

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Brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance it does not describe in detail the person or thing to which it refers. Writer expects reader to posses enough knowledge to spot the allusion and grasp its importance in a text

Question 19

Metonymy

Answer 19

A figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with it is closely associated. We can come across examples of metonymy both from literature and in everyday life. Do not confuse this with a metaphor as a metonymy is not creating a comparison

Question 20

Anaphora

Answer 20

Writing or speech the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentences in order to achieve an artistic effort is known as anaphora used to emphasize certain words, or phrases