AP Lang rhetorical devices
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anecdote
short personal story
juxtaposition
2 things side by side to develop compare and contrasts
hyperbole
an exaggeration
antithesis
strong contrasting words (parallel)
allusion
reference to a famous thing
parallelism/parallel structure
same structure through sentences
anaphora
repetition at beginning of successive clauses
epistrophe
repetition at end of successive clauses
oxymoron
2 words together with opposite meanings
polysyndeton
using many conjunctions
asyndeton
lack of conjunctions
zeugma
word applies to 2 things in 2 ways
chiasmus
flip contrasting word order
Euphemism
words making something softer
paradox
self-contradictory idea/phrase
loose sentence
main point front, details after
periodic sentence
details then main ideas
hortative sentences
words encouraging actions
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