AP Notes 49-52

Question 1

Syntactical Inversion

Answer 1

In literary style and rhetoric, the syntactical reversal of the normal order of words and phrases in a sentence, as in English the pacing of an adjective after the noun it modifies, the for divine, a verb before its subject. Calm the down.

Question 2

Apposition

Answer 2

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. Two elements are said to be an apposition.

Question 3

Didactic

Answer 3

Used for literary terms which are overloaded with information or restate matter and are married by the omission of graceful and pleasing detail.

Question 4

Conecit

Answer 4

Figure of speech in which two vastly different objects are listed together with the help of similes or metaphors. They have a surprising or shocking effect on the readers because they are novel comparisons unlike the conventional comparisons made in similes and metaphors.