AP Notes Terms 11-20

Question 1

“quality” of a piece or writing in which all the parts contribute to the development on the central idea/theme or organizing principle

Answer 1

Coherence

Question 2

short, often witty, statement of a principle or truth about life; ex. “The early bird gets the worm.”

Answer 2

Aphorism

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Apostrophe

Question 4

hard, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose; the opposite of euphony

Answer 4

Cacophony/Dissonance

Question 5

dictionary definiton

Answer 5

Denotation

Question 6

rhetorical device used for listing details or a process of mentioning words or phrases step by step; type of amplification or division

Answer 6

Enumeration

Question 7

comparison in which an idea or thing is compared to another thing that is quite different

Answer 7

Analogy

Question 8

use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; similar in construction, sound, meaning, or meter

Answer 8

Parallelism

Question 9

brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance

Answer 9

Allusion

Question 10

figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated

Answer 10

Metonymy