Ap Running Notes 11-20

Question 1

The quality of a piece of writing in which all parts contribute to the development of the central idea, theme, or organizing principle.

Answer 1

Coherence

Question 2

A short, often witty, statement of a principle or truth about life. Ben Franklin was famous for this in Poor Richard’s Almanac, e.g. “The early bird gets the worm.”

Answer 2

Aphorism

Question 3

Usually in poetry, but sometimes in prose: the device of calling out to imaginary, dead, or absent person or to a place, thing, or personified abstraction.

Answer 3

Apostrophe

Question 4

AKA Dissonance: hard, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose; the opposite of EUPHONY.

Answer 4

Cacophony

Question 5

Connotation- Feeling the reader gets from the word/phrase. Denotation- Dictionary Definition of the word or phrase.

Answer 5

Connotation-Denotation

Question 6

Rhetorical device used for listing the details of process of mentioning words or phrases step by step. In fact, it is a type of amplification or division in which a subject is further distributed into components or parts. Writers use this to clarify and detail understanding.

Answer 6

Enumeration

Question 7

Where an idea or thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it. It aims at explaining that idea by comparing it to something that is familiar.

Answer 7

Analogy

Question 8

Use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their 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. It does not describe in detail the person or thing to which it refers, it is just a passing comment.

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