AP Notes 11-40

Question 1

conerence

Answer 1

the “quality” of a piece of writing in which all the parts contribute to the development of the central idea

Question 2

Aphorism

Answer 2

a short, often witty, statement of a principle about life

Question 3

Apostrophe

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Cacophony

Answer 4

also referred to as dissonance….or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose

Question 5

Enumeration

Answer 5

a rhetorical device used for listing the details

Question 6

analogy

Answer 6

a comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another

Question 7

Parallelism

Answer 7

the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same

Question 8

Allusion

Answer 8

a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical culture

Question 9

metonymy

Answer 9

figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else

Question 10

anaphora

Answer 10

writing or speech that the deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence

Question 11

Epistrophe

Answer 11

from a Greek word meaning turning uponf

Question 12

Asyneton

Answer 12

from a Greek word that means unconnected

Question 13

Polysyndeton

Answer 13

from a Greek word meaning “bound together”