Notes 1-20

Question 1

a short, simple narrative of an incident often used for humorous effect or to make a point

Answer 1

Anecdote

Question 2

writing that attempts to prove the validity of a point/view/idea by presenting “reasoned” arguments; persuasive writing

Answer 2

Argumentation

Question 3

an extended narrative of an incident in prose or verse in which characters, events, and settings represent abstract qualities and in which the writer intends a second meaning to be read beneath the surface of the story; the underlying meaning may be moral, religious, political, social, satiric

Answer 3

Allegory

Question 4

explanatory notes added to a text to explain, cite sources, or give bibliographies data. In AP Lang., you will need to demonstrate DETAILED annotation on most of your readings.

Answer 4

Annotation

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Antithesis

Question 6

the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other composition techniques

Answer 6

Rhetoric

Question 7

a word or phrase (including slang) used in everyday conversation & informal writing but that is often inappropriate, informal writing

Answer 7

Colloquialism

Question 8

words suggesting implied meaning b/c of its association in a reader’s mind. opposite of “denotation”

Answer 8

Connotation

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Consonance

Question 10

descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature of a person’s appearance of a facet of personality

Answer 10

Caricature

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Coherence

Question 12

a short, often witty, statement of a principle or truth about life. Benjamin Franklin was somewhat famous for these in Poor Richard’s Almanac

Answer 12

Aphorism

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Apostrophe

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Cacophony (Dissonance)

Question 15

antonyms of each other; a way to represent how words have different effects on people

Answer 15

Connotation-Denotation

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Enumeration

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Analogy

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Parallelism

Question 19

a 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 and the writer expects the reader to possess enough knowledge to spot the allusion and grasp its importance in a text

Answer 19

Allusion

Question 20

it is a figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing w/ the name of something else w/ which it is closely associated. Do NOT confuse this w/ a metaphor as it is not comparing

Answer 20

Metonymy