Rhetorical devices for AP Language and Composition
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| Allegory | show 🗑
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| show | the sequential repetition of a similar initial sound, usually applied to consonants, usually in closely proximate stressed syllables
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| show | a literary, historical, religious, or mythological reference
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| Anaphora | show 🗑
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| show | the juxtaposition of a sharply contrasting ideas in balanced or parallel words, phrases, grammatical structure, or ideas
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| show | a concise statement designed to make a point or illustrate a commonly held belief.
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| show | the act of addressing some inanimate abstraction or person that is not physically present: it often helps the speaker to be able to express his or her thoughts aloud.
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| show | the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds
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| Asyndeton | show 🗑
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| Attitude | show 🗑
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| Begging the question | show 🗑
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| show | a figure of speech and generally a syntactical structure wherein the order of the terms on the first half of a parallel clause is reversed in the second.
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| show | in argumentation, an assertion of something as fact
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| show | a term identifying the diction of the common, ordinary folks, especially in a specific region or area.
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| show | a comparison of two unlikely things that is drawn out within a piece of literature, in particular an extended metaphor within a poem.
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| show | the implied, suggested, or underlying meaning of a word or phrase. It is the opposite of denotation, which is the "dictionary definition" of the word
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| show | the repetition of two or more consonants with a change in the intervening vowels, such as pitter-patter, splish-splash, and click-clack.
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| show | an accepted manner, model, or tradition
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| Deductive reasoning (deduction) | show 🗑
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| show | the specific word choice an author uses to persuade or convey tone, purpose, or effect.
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| Didactic | show 🗑
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| Elegy | show 🗑
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| Epistrophe | show 🗑
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| Epitaph | show 🗑
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| show | the appeal of a text to the credibility and character of the speaker, writer, or narrator. (ETHICS)
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| Euphemism | show 🗑
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| show | writing that explains its own meaning or purpose
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| Extended metaphor | show 🗑
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| show | a sermon, but more contemporary uses include any serious talk, speech, or lecture involving moral or spiritual life.
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| Imperative sentence | show 🗑
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| Flashback | show 🗑
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| show | a type or class of literature
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| show | overstatement characterised by exaggerated language, usually to make a point or draw attention.
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| Inductive reasoning (induction) | show 🗑
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| show | a conclusion or proposition arrived at by considering facts, observations, or some other specific data.
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| Isocolon | show 🗑
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| Jargon | show 🗑
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| Juxtaposition | show 🗑
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| show | a figure of speech the emphasizes its subject by conscious understatement
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| Loose sentence | show 🗑
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| show | a figure of speech in which an attribute or commonly associated feature is used to name or designate something.
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| Mode of discourse | show 🗑
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| show | a feeling or ambience resulting from the tone of a piece as well as the writer / narrator's attitude and point of view. Its a "feeling" that establishes the atmosphere in a work of literature or other discourse.
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| Narrative | show 🗑
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| Oxymoron | show 🗑
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| show | a statement that seems contradictory but is probably true
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| Parallel structure | show 🗑
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| show | the element in literature that stimulates pity or sorrow (EMOTION)
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| show | a long sentence in which the main clause is not completed until the end
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| Realism | show 🗑
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| Rebuttal/refutation | show 🗑
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| show | the art of using words to persuade in writing or speaking.
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| show | a question that is a simply for the sake of stylistic effect and is not expected to be answered
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| Sarcasm | show 🗑
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| show | a literary work that holds up human failings to ridicule and censure
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| show | a direct explicit comparison of one thing to another usually using the words like or as to draw the connection
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| Style | show 🗑
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| Symbolism | show 🗑
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| show | a figure of speech in which a part signifies the whole
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| show | the way words are put together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences.
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| Theme | show 🗑
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| show | the attitude the narrator/writer takes toward a subject and theme; the tenor of a piece of writing based on particular stylistic devices employed by the writer. Tone reflects the narrator/author's attitude.
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| Zeugma | show 🗑
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| Logos | show 🗑
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