AP Language And Composition Rhetorical Terms And Glossary Part 3

Question 0

Exposition

Answer 0

Explanation of background information bedded to understand the plot

Question 1

Explication

Answer 1

Discovering the meaning of the text

Question 2

Extended metaphor

Answer 2

Developed throughout a piece of writing

Question 3

False analogy

Answer 3

When two cases are not sufficiently parallel to lead reader to accept a claim of connection between them

Question 4

Figured of language

Answer 4

Language that contains similar metaphors associations more imaginative

Question 5

Figures of speech

Answer 5

Expressions simile is comparisons

Question 6

Freight train

Answer 6

Sentance containing three or more very short independent clauses joined by conjunctions

Question 7

Hubris

Answer 7

Pride of ambition that leads a tragic hero to disregard warning of doom causing his or hers down fall

Question 8

Hyperbole

Answer 8

So hungry he could eat the moon

Question 9

Image

Answer 9

Words or words describe sensory thing perceived by a sense

Question 10

Induction

Answer 10

Moves frond specifics to generalization

Question 11

Inference

Answer 11

A conclusion one can draw from presented details

Question 12

Interior monologue

Answer 12

Writing that records the conversation that occurs inside a characters head

Question 13

Inversion

Answer 13

Subject first then verb then commence tart

Question 14

Irony

Answer 14

Actual outcome is opposite to what was expected

Question 15

Invective

Answer 15

Verbally abusive