AP English: Rhetorical Devices

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The art of effective or persuasive communication

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Rhetoric

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A terse statement which expresses a general truth or moral principle; adage, saying, or proverb

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Aphorism

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Involves bitter, caustic language that is meant to hurt or ridicule someone or something

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Sarcasm

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Deliberate use of many conjunctions, to speed up rhythm of the sentence

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Polysyndeton

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Purpose is to recreate, invent, or visually present a person, place, event, or action

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Description

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Grammatical framing of words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs to give structural similarity

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Parallelism

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Repetition at the end of a clause of a word that occurred at the beginning of the clause

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Epanalepsis

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Ostentatious in one's learning, overly concerned with minute details or formalisms

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Pedantic

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A rhetorical appeal that prompts an emotional or imaginative response in the audience

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Pathos

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An indirect reference to something with which the readers are supposed to be familiar

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Allusion

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An IMPLIED comparison between two unlike things

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Metaphor

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The literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to feelings or ideas the word suggests

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Denotation

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Grammatical arrangement of words; sentence structure

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Syntax

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Inversion of the natural or usual word order

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Anastrophe

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A "turning away" from the audience, in which someone or something knew is addressed (God, etc.)

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Apostrophe

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substituting the name of one object for another object closely associated with it

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Metonymy

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Placing things side by side for the purpose of comparison

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Juxtaposition

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An author's stance that distances himself from personal involvement

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Objectivity

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The occasion or demand that causes an author to produce a text

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Exigence

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Repetition of a word in two different senses

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Antanaclasis

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A verbal description that exaggerates, for comic effect, a person's features or characteristics

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Caricature

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Visually descriptive or figurative language

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Imagery

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Exaggeration, deliberate exaggeration for emphasis

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Hyperbole

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Author's attitude toward his subject matter

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Tone

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

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Style

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Commonly defined as those questions that do not require an answer

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Rhetorical question

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The associations suggested by a word, not the literal definition

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Connotation

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Using a sequence of ideas that abruptly diminish in importance at the end of a sentence

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Anticlimax

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A play on the meaning of words

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Pun

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Flexible term that describes the variety, the conventions, and the purposes of major writings

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Rhetorical Modes

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Figure of speech in which natural sounds are imitated in the sounds of the words

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Onomatopoeia

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Substitute less pungent words for harsh ones, with excellent ironic effect

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Euphemism

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A similarity or comparison between two different things or the relationship between them

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Analogy

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The use of words to mean something intentionally different than what a person actually says

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Verbal Irony

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A type of figurative language which attributes human qualities to non-human subjects

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Personification

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When apparently contradictory terms are grouped together and suggest a succinct paradox

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Oxymoron

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A figure of speech in which a spoken phrase is devised to be understood in either of two ways

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Double Entendre

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Arrangement of words, phrases, or clauses in an order of increasing importance

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Climax

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The atmosphere created by a text, often accomplished through word choice

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Mood

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Repetition of a word or phrase after an intervening word or phrase w/p X, ... w/p X

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Diacope

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Deliberate omission of conjunctions between a series of related clauses, words, or phrases

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Asyndeton

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Repetition of initial or medial consonants in two or more adjacent words

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Alliteration

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A rhetorical appeal that persuades through the use of logical argumentation

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Logos

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Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the following clause

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Anadiplosis

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When the writer denies the complexity of an idea

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Oversimplification

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Words or language that connote a meaning other than their literal interpretation

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Figurative Language

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An extended metaphor in which people, things and events represent concepts outside the story

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Allegory

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Reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses

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Chiasmus

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Quality of a piece of writing where all parts contribute to the development of a central idea

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Coherence

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A metaphor developed at great length, occurring frequency in or throughout the work

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Extended metaphor

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Involves the repetition of sounds within words

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Assonance

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A rhetorical appeal that persuades though the establishment of credibility or ethical concerns

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Ethos

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A common or familiar type of saying; an informal, comfortable expression

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Colloquialism

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The regular repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning or successive phrases

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Anaphora

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A quotation or aphorism at the beginning of a literary work suggestive of a theme

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Epigraph

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A language or dialect of a particular country, speech of a clan or group, plain everyday speech

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Vernacular

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A fanciful expression, an extended metaphor or surprising analogy, between dissimilar objects

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Conceit

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Juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, often in parallel structure

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Antithesis

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Occurs when an audience is aware of something that the characters in a story are unaware of

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Dramatic irony

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A seemingly contradictory statement which is actually true.

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Paradox

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Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive

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Didactic

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An original pattern or model after which all things like it are modeled.

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Archetype

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rhetorical question that an author asks and then proceeds to answer, usually at length

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Hypophora

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Word choice, particularly as an element of style.

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Diction

AP English: Rhetorical Devices

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AP English: Rhetorical Devices

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