AP LANG

Zeugma

a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses

Inversion

Inverted order of words in a sentence (variation of the subject-verb-object order)

Complex

One independent clause combined with one dependent clause.

Hyperbole

A figure of speech that involves an exaggeration of ideas.

Diction

The speaker's choice of words. Can have denotative and connotative value.

Metaphor

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

Imperative

A sentence used to command.

Juxaposition

Is a literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts.

Parallelism

Is the use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same.

Allusion

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

Style

The sentence structure, vocabulary, imagery, and figurative language, and feeling of a text.

Hypophora

Figure of speech in which a writer raises a question and then immediately provides an answer to that question.

Rhetorical Question

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

Personification

Figure of speech in which an inanimate object is given human characteristics.

Tone

The authors attitude toward the subject of a work.

Simple

One independent clause.

Archaic

Old-fashioned or outdated choice of words

Simile

Figure of Speech that compares two things using like or as.

Syntax

How words are arranged into sentences

Antimetabole

A literary term or device that involves repeating a phrase in reverse order.

Mood

How the reader feels about the subject. (impacted by tone)

Asyndeton

Omission of conjunction between coordinate phrase, clauses, or words.

Hortative

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

Cumulative

Sentence that completes the main idea at the beginning of the sentence and then builds and adds in successive clauses.

Alliteration

Repetition of the same sound beginning several words or syllables in a sequence.

Periodic

The meaning and main clause is felt at the end of the sentence.

Synecdoche

A literary device in which a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part.

Antithesis

A rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect.

Compound

Two independent clauses combined with a comma and conjunction, or a colon, or em dash.

Polysyndeton

Adds "and" between all items.

Close Reading

Putting a work in context, focusing your attention on themes and techniques, asking for a response.