AP Lang Literary and Rhetorical Devices Quiz

Contains only one independent clause and at least one dependentclause.

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

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

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

Rhetorical Mode: Compare/Contrast is defined as

Rhetorical Mode: Narration is defined as

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rhetorical Mode: Definition is defined as

A seemingly contradictory situation which is actually true.

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

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

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

Rhetorical Mode: Argument is defined as

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

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

Contains at least two independent clauses but no dependentclauses.

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

Rhetorical Mode: Cause and effect is defined as

All are examples of rhetorical modes EXCEPT

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

Match the rhetorical mode with it's definition: ILLUSTRATION

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

Rhetorical Mode: Process Analysis is defined as

Ordinary or familiar type of conversation.

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

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

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

Placing things side by side for the purposes of comparison.