AP Notes 13-17

Question 1

13. APOSTROPHE:

Answer 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.

Question 2

14. CACOPHONY

Answer 2

also referred to as DISSONANCE…hard, awkward, or dissonant sounds used
deliberately in poetry or prose; the opposite of EUPHONY.

Question 3

15. CONNOTATION-DENOTATION

Answer 3

connotation is the feeling of the word

denotation in the dictionary

Question 4

16. ENUMERATION

Answer 4

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.

Question 5

17. ANALOGY

Answer 5

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 that idea or thing by comparing it to something that
is familiar. Only read the information below to help you understand.