terms to study ap lang rhetorical terms

Active/Passive Voice

Used to show assertiveness or things out of someone’s control

Analogy

Paragraphical metapor

Allegory

Short story metaphor (rolling head)

Alliteration

Words start with the same sound

Allusion

references to other works

Anaphora

Sentences start with the same word

Anadiplosis

Sentence begins with the last sentence’s end.

Analepsis

flashback

Prolepsis

flash forward

adecdote

relevant story from your own life

antithesis/juxtaposition

two things contrasted

apostrophe

speaking to something not there/cannot respond

asyndeton

removal of parts of sentences to seems rushed

colloquialism/idoms

spoken/informal tone

euphemism

reduce taboo, polite

dyphemism

overly crude

Hyberbole

exaggeration

Rhetorical Question/Hypophora

question to build suspense, not to be actually answered

imperative sentence/verb

a command, request, or instruction

irony

Verbal irony - person says one thing but means the opposite

Situational irony - opposite of what is expected happens

Dramatic irony - audience knows something that characters do not.

Metaphor/Simile

Calling two things alike

Parallelism

Repeated structures of sentences

Polysyndeton

Usage of more words than needed

Personification

making something unhuman like a person (actions/thoughts)

Strategic Pronoun Use

pivot from “we”or “us” to “i” or “me”

tricolon

three little pigs with sentences, third try is different

telegraphic sentence

<5 words

short sentence

~five words

long sentence

>5 words

involved sentence

many commas and clauses

inverted

subject at the end of sentence