AP Notes 13-16

Question 1

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.

Answer 1

Apostrophe

Question 2

Also referred to as bissonance.. hard, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose; opposite in euphony.

Answer 2

Cacophony

Question 3

Enumeration is a rhetorical device used for listing the details or a process of mentioning words or phrases step by step, in fact it is a type of amplification or division in which a subject is further distributed into components or parts. Writers use this to clarify and detail understanding.

Answer 3

Enumeration

Question 4

An analogy is a comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it. It aims at explaining it to something that is familiar.

Answer 4

Analogy