AP Notes 10-13

Question 1

Consonance

Answer 1

repetition of identical consonant sounds within two or more words in close proximity: boot/beat/best/brag, or even compound words, fulfill,ping-pong

Question 2

Caricature

Answer 2

descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates, a specific feature of a person’s appearance or a facet of personality

Question 3

Coherence

Answer 3

he ‘quality” of a piece of writing in which all-parts contribute to the development of the central/idea/ theme or organizing principle

Question 4

Aphorism

Answer 4

a short, often witty, statement of a principle or truth about life, “The early bird gets the worm”

Question 5

Apostrophe

Answer 5

usually in poetry, but sometimes in prose; the device of calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person or to a place, thing, or personified abstraction