AP notes 11-19

Question 1

Coherence

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Aphorism

Answer 2

a short, often witty, statement of a principle or truth about life. Benjamin Franklin was a somewhat famous for those in Poor Richards Almanac

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 refereed to as “Dissonance”… hard, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose; the opposite of “Euphony”.

Question 5

Enumuration

Answer 5

is a rhetorical device used for listening to details of 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

Question 6

Analogy

Answer 6

is a comparison in which an idea or thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it. it aims to explain the idea or thing by comparing it to something familiar.

Question 7

Parallelism

Answer 7

the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in the construction sound, meaning, or meter. they are found in literary examples as well as everyday conversations. ex: like father, like son

Question 8

Allusion

Answer 8

a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, culture, literary, or politically significant. it does not describe in detail the person or thing to which it refers. it is just a passing comment and the author expects the reader to possess enough knowledge to spot the allusion and grasp its importance in a text.