AP Lang Literary and Rhetorical Devices Quiz

A comparison of one pair of variables to a parallel set of variables.

Rhetorical Mode: Argument is defined as

Replacing an actual word or idea, with a related word or concept.

The choices in diction, tone, and syntax that a writer makes.

Placing things side by side for the purposes of comparison.

Language/dialect of a particular country, or language or dialect of a regional clan or group, or plain everyday speech

A word or group of words placed beside a noun or noun substitute to supplement its meaning.

The deliberate omission of a word or phrase from prose done for effect by the author.

Rhetorical Mode: Cause and effect is defined as

When the audience of a drama, play, movie, etc. knows something that the character doesn't.

The literal, explicit meaning of a word, without its connotations.

A kind of metonymy when a whole is represented by naming one of itsparts, or vice versa.

The sentence or groups of sentences that directly expresses the author's opinion, purpose, meaning, or proposition.

Contains only one independent clause and at least one dependentclause.

Contains at least two independent clauses but no dependentclauses.

Match the rhetorical mode with it's definition: ILLUSTRATION

Rhetorical Mode: Process Analysis is defined as

Ordinary or familiar type of conversation.

When the main idea is not completed until the end of the sentence.

The atmosphere created by the literature and accomplished through word choice (diction).

All are examples of rhetorical modes EXCEPT

An indirect reference to something with which the reader is supposed to be familiar.

A sentence in which two parallel elements are set off against eachother like equal weights on a scale.

Rather than the dictionary definition, the associations suggested by a word.

Rhetorical Mode: Narration is defined as

When you say something and mean the opposite/something different.

A grammatical unit that contains both a subject and a verb.

When the writer begins with an independent clause, then adds subordinate elements.

A seemingly contradictory situation which is actually true.

A balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure.

Found in the plot of a book, story, or movie. Sometimes it makes you laugh because it's funny how things turn out.

The word, phrase, or clause referred to by a pronoun.

Rhetorical Mode: Compare/Contrast is defined as

The diction used by a group which practices a similar profession or activity.

A common, often used expression that doesn’t make sense if you take it literally.

Rhetorical Mode: Definition is defined as