AP Deck 2

Question 1

Coherence

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Aphorism

Answer 2

a short, often witty, statement of a principle or truth about life. Benjamin Franklin was somewhat famous for these in Poor Richard’s Almanac “The Early Bird Gets The Worm”

Question 3

Apostrophe

Answer 3

usually in poetry, but sometimes in prose: the device of calling out to an imaginary, dead or absent person or to a place, thing, or personified abstraction.

Question 4

Cacophony

Answer 4

also referred to as dissonance… hard, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose; the opposite of euphony .

Question 5

Enumeration

Answer 5

enumeration is a rhetorical device used for listing the details or a process of mentioning words or phrases step by step. In fact, it is a type of amplification or division in which a subject is further distributed into components or parts.

Question 6

analogy

Answer 6

a comparison in which an idea or 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 7

parallelism

Answer 7

use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter

Question 8

Allusion

Answer 8

brief or 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, its a passing comment

Question 9

Metonymy

Answer 9

figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated.

Question 10

Anaphora

Answer 10

deliberate repetition of the first part of a sentence in order to achieve an artistic affect

Question 11

Epistrophe

Answer 11

derived from a greek word which means turning upon, which indicates the same words returns at the end of each sentence.

Question 12

Connotation- Denotation

Answer 12

two principal methods of describing the meanings of words. Connotation refers to the wide array of positive and negative associations that most words naturally carry with them. Whereas denotation is the precise literal definition of a word that might be found in a dictionary