Duplicate of AP Lang Literary Devices

A brief reference to people, events, things, or ideas with which the reader is presumably familiar.

Credibility, which involves persuasion by the character involved

Literary device that wants to evoke a sensory experience or create a picture with words for the reader

Figure of speech in which two vastly different objects are likened together with the help of similies or metaphors.

features the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive sentence, phrase, or clauses.

a figure of speech and literary device that creates heightened effect through deliberate exaggeration.

A statement that appears contradictory at first, but upon reflection it makes sense

refers to the emotional response that the writer wishes to evoke in the reader through a story.

A figure of speach that creates a comparison showing how to diffrent things are alike in to illistrate a larger point

Repetition of grammatical elements in writing and speaking. Influences the grammatical structure and impacts ideas

the repitition in two or more nearrby words of initial consonant sounds

Who the writer creates for often adjusting their style accordingly.

Comparisons between two non-similar things without using "like" or "as"

Contradictory statements or situations reveal a reality that is different from what appears to be true.

Figure of speech pairing contradictory words

The linguisitic choices made by the writer to conveyban idea or story in an fective way.

described as a statement, sentence, or argument used to convince or persuade the targeted audience by employing logic

Refers to a meaning that is implied by a word apart from the thing which it describes explicitly.

Any figure of speech which depends on a non-literal meaning of some or all of the words used.

A statement essentially arguable, but used as a prime point to support or prove an argument

A short story often told to create a poit