AP Rhetorical Devices

The persons reached in a story

Desire to return in the thought or fact to a former time

A novel or story whose name is the moral or psychological growth of the main character

A brief story or tale told by a character in a piece of literature

A figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements

The ordinary of form of written language without metrical structure

Focus statment of an essay

Term used to describe literary forms

Words and devices that bring unity and coherence to a piece of writing

A characters view of the situation or events in the story

In dramatic literature, the moral element that determines a characters actions

A person or thing that makes another seem better Than the other

The feeling or ambience resulting from the tone of a piece

Poem or prose lamenting the death of a particular person

A speech or writing in the praise or thing; an oration in honor of a deceased person