AP Language Day 12

Question 1

inversion, also called anastrophe, in literary style and rhetoric,
the syntactic reversal of the normal order of the words and phrases in a sentence, as, in English,
the placing of an adjective after the noun it modifies (“the form divine”), a verb before its subject
(“Came the dawn”).

Answer 1

Syntactical Inversion

Question 2

It is a grammatical construction in which two elements, normally noun phrases, are placed
side by side, with one element serving to identify the other in a different way. The two elements
are said to be in apposition.

Answer 2

Apposition

Question 3

The word is frequently used for those literary texts which are overloaded with
informative or realistic matter and are marked by the omission of graceful and pleasing details.
Didactic, therefore, becomes a derogatory term referring to the forms of literature that are
ostentatiously dull and erudite. However, some literary texts are entertaining as well as didactic.

Answer 3

Didactic

Question 4

It is a figure of speech in which two vastly different objects are likened together with
the help of similes or metaphors. Thus, conceit examples have a surprising or shocking effect on
the readers because they are novel comparisons unlike the conventional comparisons made in
similes and metaphors.

Answer 4

Conceit