AP Language Notes Day 4

Question 1

It is 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.

Answer 1

Apostrope

Question 2

It can be referred to as dissonance,hard, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose; the opposite of Euphony.

Answer 2

Cacophony

Question 3

It is an idea or feeling a word invokes in addition to its literal meaning.

It is the literal meaning of a word, not a feeling that a word suggests.

Answer 3

Connotation

Denotation

Question 4

It 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. Writers use this to clarify and detail understanding.

Answer 4

Enumeration