AP Rhetorical Devices

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

The ordinary of form of written language without metrical structure

Poem or prose lamenting the death of a particular person

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

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

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

The persons reached in a story

Focus statment of an essay

Term used to describe literary forms

A characters view of the situation or events in the story

The feeling or ambience resulting from the tone of a piece

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

A figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements

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

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