AP Lang. 3

Question 1

Parallelism

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

A brief + indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance. Passing comment. “Gilmore Girls” was extraordinary at this.

Question 3

Metonymy

Answer 3

Figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else.

Question 4

Anaphora

Answer 4

In writing of speech, the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an artistic effect.

Question 5

Epistrophe

Answer 5

repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses or sentences.

Question 6

Asyndeton

Answer 6

device used in between literature and poetry to intentionally eliminate conj. between the two phrases in the sentence, and yet maintain the grammatical accuracy

Question 7

Polysyndenton

Answer 7

is a literary technique in which conjunctions (e.g. and, but, or) are used repeatedly in quick succession, often with no commas, even when the conjunctions could be removed.

Question 8

Synecdoche

Answer 8

figure of speech in which a term for a part of something refers to the whole of something or vice versa.

Question 9

Tone

Answer 9

An attitude of a writer in writing toward a subject or an audience. Something important for the reader to “sense” to determine an argument.

Question 10

Process Analysis

Answer 10

A step by step break down of the phases of a process, used to convey the details of each phase of thinking, an operation, etc. Often used to improve understanding