Mrs. Wendy Scruggs's AP Rhetorical Devices Terms
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| show | In Shakespeare's Romeos and Juliet, the rashness of the two young lovers-especially Romeo-leads to their deaths.
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| show | In Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte, the nightmares Lockwood has the night he sleeps in Catherine's bed prefigure later events in the novel.
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| Expert Opinion The citation of accredited authorities in support of an argument | show 🗑
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| show | Saying "ethnic cleansing" instead of "genocide".
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| show | She, she it was who broke my heart.
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| Epithet An adjective or phrase that describes a prominent or distinguishing feature of a person or thing. | show 🗑
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| Emblem A concrete object that represents something abstract; unlike a symbol it has a fixed meaning and does not change over time. | show 🗑
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| show | Romeo and loves Juliet and Juliet, Romeo.
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| show | In Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, Oedipus vows to discover his father's murderer, not knowing, as the audience does, that he himself is the murderer.
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| Delayed Sentence A sentence that delays introducing the subject and verb (or independent clause)until the end. | show 🗑
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| show | Chicken is supposed to be healthy. This sandwich contains chicken, so it is probably healthy.
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| Cliche An expression that has been used so frequently it has lost its expressive power. | show 🗑
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| Chiasmus Two phrases in which the syntax is the same but the placement of words is reversed. | show 🗑
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| show | The works of Homer, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Bronte, and other great writers.
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| show | James Boswell's life of Samuel Johnson. Plato's The Death of Socrates. George Kent's A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks.
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| Bildungsroman A novel about the education or psychological growth of the protagonist(main character) | show 🗑
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| show | Get that dog!
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| Autobiography The narrative of a person's life written by that person | show 🗑
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| show | Children's television programs should not run advertisements are contributions to an increase in sugar consumption and diabetes among children
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| Argument by definition Form of argument in which the writers defines a term by placing it in a particular category, thereby claiming that what is true for the whole category is true for the particular term. | show 🗑
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| show | Congress was right to lower the voting from twenty-one to eighteen, because if you are old enough to join the army and fight in a war, then you are old enough to vote.
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| show | The color white usually signifies purity, while black usually signifies evil
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| show | We should not spend our budget surplus this year, because we are likely to need it for unseen expenses.
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| Apostrophe A direct address to an absent or dead person, or to an object, quality, or idea. | show 🗑
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| Aposiopesis A breaking off speech, usually due to rising emotion or excitement | show 🗑
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