AP Running notes (45-48)

Question 1

Syntactical Inversion

Answer 1

Inversion, also called anastrophe, is the syntactic reversal of the normal order of words and phrases in a sentence, as in English, the placing of an adjective after the noun it modifies, a verb before its subject.

Question 2

Apposition

Answer 2

A grammatical construction in which two elements 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 literary texts that are overloaded with informative or realistic matter and are marked by the omission of graceful and pleasing details. Didactic becomes a derogatory term referring to the forms of literature that are dull and erudite.

Question 4

Conceit

Answer 4

A figure of speech in which two vastly different objects are likened together with the help of similes and metaphors.