AP Notes 45-48

Question 1

syntactical Inversion

Answer 1

Inversion, also called anastrophe, in literary style and rhetoric, the reversal of a normal order of the words and phrases in a sentence. (“The form divine”) (“Came the dawn”)

Question 2

Apposition

Answer 2

A grammatical construction in which two elements, normally noun phrases, are placed side by side, with one element serving to identify the other in a different way.

Question 3

Didactic

Answer 3

Frequently used for those literary texts which are overloaded with informative or realistic matter and are marked by the omission of graceful and pleasing details.

Question 4

Conceit

Answer 4

A figure of speech in which two vastly different objects are likened together with the help of similes or metaphors. (Surprising or shocking effect unlike subtle metaphors and similes).