Ap Running Notes (5-8)

Question 1

Antithesis

Answer 1

The presentation of two contrasting images. The ideas are balanced by word, phrase, clause, or paragraphs. “To be or not to be…”, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

Question 2

Rhetoric

Answer 2

The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques. This is the CORE of the AP Language Program.

Question 3

Colloquialism

Answer 3

A word or phrase (including slang) used in everyday conversation and informal writing but is often inappropriate in formal writing. (y’all, din’t, can’t, somethin’)

Question 4

Connotation

Answer 4

Words suggesting implied meaning because of it’s association in a reader’s mind. This is the opposite of “denotation”