AP Vocabulary 2
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- "I have a Dream"
- Anaphora
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Repetition of vowel sound
Old King Cole was a merry old soul - Assonance
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repetion of consonant sound
a flock of sick, black-chechered ducks - Consonance
- Word choice
- diction
- term to describe fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking
- didactic
- a quotation or aphorism at teh beginning of a literary work suggestive of theme
- Epigraph
- conscious exaggeration used to heighten effect. Not intended literally, often humorous
- hyperbole
- the use of images, especially in a pattern of related images, often figurative to greate a strong, unified sensory expression.
- imagery
- A rhetorical antithesis. Juxtaposing two contradictory terms, like "wise fool"
- Oxymoron
- A seemingly contradictory statement which is actually true. This rhetorical device is often used for emphasis or simply to attract attention.
- Paradox
- Qualities of a fictional or nonfictional work that envoke sorrow or pity. Overemotionalism can be the result if in excess.
- pathos
- Sentance that places the main idea or central complete thought at the end of the sentence, after all introductory elements.
- periodic
- When a writer implies that because one thing follows another, the first caused the second.
- post hoc
- when a wrtier raises an irrelevant issue to draw attention away from the real issue.
- Red Herring
- word or whrase used two or more times in close proximity.
- repetition
- art of effective communicatio. focuses on the interrelationship of invention, arrangement, and style in order to create felicitous and appropriate discourse
- rhetoric
- a type of verbal irony
- sarcasm
- figurative comparrison of 2 things, often dissimilar, using connection words "like or "as"
- simile
- when a writer argues against a claim that nobody actually holds or is universally considered weak. Diverts attention from the real issues
- straw man
- ability to create a variety of sentence structures, appropriately complex and/or simple and varied in length
- sytactic fluency
- central idea of a work of fiction or non fiction
- theme
- work of fiction or nonfiction said to be unified if all the parts are related to one central idea or organizing principle
- unity
- when the reader is aware of a discrepeancy between the real meaning of a situation adn the literal meaning of the writers words
- verbal irony
- Ability to create a variety of sentence structures that are extraordinarily complex and involved. Often difficult for reader to follow.
- syntactic permutation