AP Tests Terms pg 3 1st half

a brief saying embodying a moral, a concise statement of a principle or precept given in pointed words

aphorism

example of an aphorism

Ben Franklin’s aphorisms

when an absent person, an abstract concept, or an important obeject is directly addressed

apostrophe

exmaple of an apostrophe

Juliet addressing Romeo even though he was not there, “Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo”

a noun or noun phrase that renames another noun right beside it

Appositive

example of an appositive

ex: The Crucible “Thomas Putnam, a greedy man,"

the repition of vowel sounds but not consonant sounds

Assonance

example of an assonance

“He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.” Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

conjunctions are omitted,

Asyndeton

Asyndeton example

"Veni, vidi, vici" (I came, I saw, I conquered) Julius Caesar

the mood or pervasive feeling insinuated by a literary work

atmosphere

atmosphere example

ex: the mood of the crucible is frantic, fearful, and tense

the person or persons to whom comments are directed

audience

this genre of literature denotes the story of a single individual’s gowth and development within the context of a defined social order.

bildungsroman

The growth process, at its roots a quest story, has been described as both “an apprenticeship to life” and a “search for meaningful existence within society”

bildungsroman

bildungsroman example

Jane Eyre and Great Expectations

harsh, discordant sounds,

cacophony

cacophony example

“Double, double, toil and trouble; / Fire burn, and cauldron bubble”

Macbeth

repetition of ideas in inverted order.

chiasmus

chiasmus example

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair."

Macbeth

produces a fast-paced and rapid prose.

asyntedon

part of your rhetorical situation (speaker, subject, audience),

audience

affects the tone and meaning

audience

opposite of euphony

cacophony