Ap Running Notes (9-12)

Question 1

Consonance

Answer 1

Repetition of identical consonant sounds within two or more words in close proximity: boot/beat/best/brag, or even compound words, fulfill, ping-pong.

Question 2

Caricature

Answer 2

Descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature of a person’s appearance or a facet of personality.

Question 3

Coherence

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Aphorism

Answer 4

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