AP notes 21-40 Flashcards
in writing or speech, the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve and artistic effect is known as anaphora, possibly the oldest literary device, has its roots in Biblical Psalms used to emphasize certain words or phrases.
anaphora
defined as the repetition of phrases or words at the end of the clauses or sentences.
Epistrophe
device used literature and poetry to intentionally eliminate conjunctions between the phrases in the sentence, yet maintain the grammatical accuracy. helps speed up the rhythm.
asyndention
¨bound together¨ makes use of coordinating conjunctions like ¨and¨ ¨or¨ ¨but¨ ¨nor¨ which are used to join successive words.
polysyndeton
device in which a part of something represents a whole or a whole represents a part. ( ¨gray bead¨ represents an old man)
synecdoche
attitude of a writer towards a subject or an audience.
tone
Step-by-step breakdown of the phases of a process, used to convey details of each phase of thinking. It is often used to improve understanding and also to break down an argument to make it more comprehensible.
Process analysis
Set of rules in a language. It dictates how words from different parts of speech are put together in order to convey a complete thought. In plain English it refers to how we choose to arrange our words.
Syntax
Diction is our choice of words. It is the purposeful choice of words serving or trending to provoke excite stimulate or provocative questions that will frame a rhetorical argument.
Provocation dictation
It is the opposite of a hyperbole or overstatement. An example would be if you won $10 million in the lottery and you tell the news reporter “ I am delighted”
Understatement
Diction is your conscious choice of words as a writer. This is a very purposeful word choice that will serve to accentuate meaning and tone.
Colorful diction
An argument or set a reason to put forward to oppose an idea or theory developed in another argument. When writing in an argumentativeMode, it is mandatory that the writer acknowledged the other side to his or her argument. It is part of the refutation of someone else’s claim to support your own side of the argument that you were making.
Counterargument
When someone provides an argument to support his/her position.
Claim
Is a type of literary device that appears in different categories of essays and theses in the form of paraphrase in quotations. It is presented to persuade the reader and used with powerful arguments in the text or essays.
Evidence
Is the glue that holds an argument together. It links the evidence to the claim. It says something like “ this evidence supports the claim because…” and it is always in a similar form that this more of a statement of support of why your evidence supports your assertion/claim.
Warrant
