Ap Lang Terms(Juxtaposition-Personification)

Juxtaposition

The location of one thing adjacent to another to create an effect, reveal an attitude, or accomplish some other purpose

Litote

A figure of speech that emphasizes its subject by conscious understatement

Loose Sentence

A long sentence that starts with its main clause, which is followed by several dependent clauses and modifying phrases 

Metaphor

One thing pictured as if it were something else, suggesting a likeness or analogy.  An implicit comparison or identification of one thing with another, without the use of like or as.

Metonymy

A figure of speech in which an attribute or commonly associated feature is used to name or designate something

Mode of Discourse

The way in which information is presented in written or spoken form.  Narration, description, process analysis , and cause and effect are all types of this.

Mood

A feeling or ambience resulting from the tone of a piece as well as the writer/narrator’s attitude and point of view.  It is a “feeling” that establishes the atmosphere in a work of literature or other discourse.

Narrative

A mode of discourse that tells a story of some sort and it is based on sequences of connected events, usually presented in a straightforward, chronological framework.

Onomatopoeia

A word capturing or approximating the sound of what is described.  The purpose of these words is to make a passage more effective for the reader or listener.

Oxymoron

A figure of speech that combines two apparently contradictory elements

Paradox

A statement that seems contradictory but may probably be true

Parallel Structure

The use of similar forms in writing for nouns, verbs, phrases, or thoughts. In prose, recurrent syntactical similarity where several parts of a sentence or several sentences are expressed alike to show that their ideas are equal in importance.

Pathos

That element in literature that stimulates pity or sorrow.  In argument or persuasion it tends to be the evocation of pity.

Periodic Sentence

A long sentence in which the main clause is not completed until the end .

Personification

Treating an abstraction or nonhuman object as if it were a person by endowing it with human features or qualities.