AP Lang & Comp Terms

A concise statement designed to make a point or illustrate a commonly held belief

The regular repetition of the same words or phrases at the beginning of successive phrases

The specific word choice an author uses to persuade or convey tone, purpose or effect

A poem or prose that laments, or meditates upon the death of a person

the diction of the common, ordinary folks, especially in a specific region or area

characters, behavior, even the setting demonstrate multiple levels of meaning and significance

The sequential repetition of a similar initial consonants, usually in close proximity

An assessment or analysis of something, such as a passage of writing

An address or invocation to something inanimate

The juxtaposition of sharply contrasting ideas, words, phrases, grammatical structure, or ideas

Extended comparison of two unlikely things that is drawn out within a piece of literature

In rhetoric, the repetition of a phrase at the end of successive sentences

A literary, historical, religious, or mythological reference in a literary work

The implied, suggested, or underlying meaning of a word or phrase

argument in which specific statements & conclusions are drawn from general principles

The sense expressed by the tone of voice or the mood of a piece of writing

That which has been accepted as authentic

The repetition of two or more consonants with a change in intervening vowels

Writing that has an instructive purpose; often associated with a dry, pompous presentation

a syntactical structure; order in the first half of a parallel clause is reversed in the second

The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds, usually in successive or proximate words

A syntactical structure in which conjunctions are omitted in a seriesproducing more rapid prose

Writing in praise of a dead person, most often inscribed upon a headstone