AP terms part 3

aphorism

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

apostropbe

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

EX: William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

"O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die."

-Juliet speaks directly to the dagger before ending her life

appositive

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

EX: in Charle’s Dicken’s, A Tale of Two Cities
“Mr. Lorry, a man of business, was walking down, on a fine frosty morning towards Dover..”
- man of business is describing Mr. Lorry

assonance

the repetition of vowel sounds but not consonant sounds

asyndeton

conjunctions are omitted, producing a fast-paces and rapid prose

atmosphere

the mood or pervasive feeling insinuated by a literary work

audience

part of your rhetorical situation (speaker, subject, audience), the person or persons to whom comments are directed (affects tone, meaning)

bildungsroman

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

growing up, meaningful journey into adulthood LIEK JANE EYRE OUGHH

cacophony

harsh discordant sounds (opposite of euphony)

chiasmus

repetition of ideas in inverted order

climax

writer arranges ideas in the order of importance