AP Notes 13-16

Question 1

Apostrophe

Answer 1

Usually in poetry, but sometimes in prose; the device of calling out an imaginary, dead, or absent person or to a place, thing, or personified abstraction.

Question 2

Cacophony

Answer 2

also referred to as DISSONANCE…hard, awkward, or dissonant sounds used
deliberately in poetry or prose; the opposite of EUPHONY

Question 3

Connotation

Answer 3

an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.

Question 4

Denotation

Answer 4

the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.

Question 5

Enumeration

Answer 5

Enumeration 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.