AP Notes 13-16

Question 1

Aphorism

Answer 1

A short, often witty statement of a principle or truth about life. Ex. Benjamin Franklin was famous or these. “The early bird gets the worm”

Question 2

Apostrophe

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Cacophony

Answer 3

Also referred to as dissonance… hard awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose; The opposite of euphony.

Question 4

Connotation/Denotation

Answer 4

The positive or negative “Tone” to a word or combination of words.