AP Lang Rhetoric Vocab

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Alliteration

Repetition of the same sound beginning several words of syllables in sequence

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Allusion

Brief reference to a person, event, or place (real or fictitious) or to a work of art.

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Anaphora

Repetition of a word for phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines.

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Antithesis

Opposition or contrast of ideas or words in a parallel construction.

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Archaic Diction

Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words

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Asyndeton

Absence of conjunctions between coordinate phrases, clauses, or words.

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Cumulative sentence

Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds on.

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Hortative Sentence

Sentence that exhorts, urges, entreats, implores, or calls to action.

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Imperative Sentence

Sentence used to command or enjoin.

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Inversion

inverted order of words in a sentence

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Juxtaposition

placement of two things closely together to emphasize similarities or differences

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Metaphor

Figure of speech that compares two things without using like or as.

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Oxymoron

Paradoxical juxtaposition of words that seem to contradict one another.

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Parallelism

Similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses.

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Periodic Sentence

Sentence whose main clause is withheld until the end.

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Personification

Giving human attributes or actions to an inanimate object or idea.

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Rhetoric Question

A figure of speech in the form of a question posed for rhetorical effect rather than for the purpose of getting an answer.

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