Figure of speech

Rhetorical terms and vocab

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Rhetorical Terms?Language devices 1. synecdoche - a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man. 2. colloquial ? adj. characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal. 3. litotes ? noun understatement, especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in ?not bad at all.?.

Key Terms to help on AP Literature exam

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9/3/13 8:55 AM Abstract something that discusses intangible qualities like good vs evil, and seldom uses examples to support its points A cutting from a larger work That was abstract- that was intangible Academic describing style, this means dry and theoretical writing accent in poetry referring to the stressed portion of a word accentual verse system of verse in which accents are used to determine the length of lines of poetry number of syllables is not important acronym a word formed by using initials, like MADD or NASA Ad hominem A logical fallacy that is an argument against man, an attack on person?s character rather than a rebuttal to his or her actual opinion Ad populum

AP English Language and Composition Resource

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Adapted from V. Stevenson, Patrick Henry High School, and Abrams? Glossary of Literary Terms Terms ? AP English Language and Composition These terms should be of use to you in answering the multiple-choice questions, analyzing prose passages, and composing your essays. allegory ? The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. In some allegories, for example, an author may intend the characters to personify an abstraction like hope or freedom. The allegorical meaning usually deals with moral truth or a generalization about human existence.

LIterary devices and meanings

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1. Simile: A simile' is a figure of speech that directly compares two different things, usually by employing the words "like" or "as". 2. Metaphor: a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in ?A mighty fortress is our God.? 3. Repetition: The act or process or an instance of repeating or being repeated. 4. Alliteration: Repetition of a particular sound in the first syllables of a series of words or phrases as in "Come?dragging the Lazy languid Line along". 5. Assonance: Repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences as in "Do you like blue?".