AP Notes 2 (11-20)

Question 1

11. Coherence

Answer 1

The “quality” of a piece of a writing in which all the parts contribute to the development of the central idea/ theme or organizing principle.

Question 2

12. Aphorism

Answer 2

a short, often witty, statement of a principle or truth about life. Benjamin Franklin was somewhat famous for these in Poor Richards Almanac
e.x “The early bird gets the worm”

Question 3

13. Apostrophe

Answer 3

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

Question 4

14. Cacophony

Answer 4

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

Question 5

15. Enumeration

Answer 5

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

Question 6

16. Analogy

Answer 6

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.

Question 7

17. Parallelism

Answer 7

the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same or similar in their construction, sound, meaning, or meter. Parallelism examples are found in literary work as well as in ordinary conversations

Question 8

18. Allusion

Answer 8

brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical,cultural,literary, or political significance. It does not describe in detail the person or thing to which it refers. It is just a passing comment and the writer expects the reader to possess enough knowledge to spot the allusion and grasp it’s importance in a text

Question 9

19. Metonymy

Answer 9

figure of speech that replaces the name of something else with which it is closely related

Question 10

20. 1. Connotation

2. Denotation

Answer 10

1. an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
2. the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.