AP Lang Rhetorical Device Review

Placing two things sides by side to highlight their differences

Repeated element that has symbolic significance to a literary work

Reference to a well-known work of fiction, history, place, or event outside the story

The speaker intends to be understood as meaning something that constasts with the literal/usual meaning of what he says

Substitution for less offensive/agreeabe expression for an expression that may offend or suggest something unpleasent

A technique for building a successful argument

Opposite or contrast

A question asked to create dramatic effect or make a point rather than to get an answer

A device that describes a place, a thing, or a person in such a way that helps in making it more prominent

Utilizing negative words/terms to express a positive assertion or statement

A word the uses terms to contradict itself

Compounds words or pharses that have equivalent meanings so as to create a definite pattern

When a speaker breaks from addressing one party and instead addresses a third party

Errors in reasoning that affect how others think or feel about a topic

Used to convey a sharply different from or even opposite of literal text

A term that is applied to ideas that are philosopical and emotional not concrete or tangible

Rejection of proposal or idea

A mood in English grammar that inflects a direct command or strong request

typically introduced by a conjunction, forms part of and is dependent on a main clause

Effective persuasive speaking or writing

A violent or bitter criticism of something or someone

A story in which the characters and their actions represent general truths about human conduct

Occurs when speakers alter their style or tone

A phrase or idea that has become a universal device to describe abstract concepts

The writer adds a piece of evidence or information that alters an orginal statement

A statement or proposition that semms self-contradictory but in reality expresses a possible truth

Exploring a topic by explaining it in terms of another seemingly unlike but more commonplace object or experience

The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words in a sentence or line of poetry

Phrase that may have multiple interpretations which may be understood in multiple ways

an instance of a form of reasonin in which a conclusion is drawn from two given or presumed propositions