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antithesis-coherence
AP Language and Composition Rhetorical Terms which have appeared on previous AP Language Exams.
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| Antithesis | the presentation of two contrasting images. The ideas are balanced by word, phrase, clause, or paragraphs. Examples: “To be or not to be…” Shakespeare’s Hamlet |
| Aphorism | a short, often witty statement of a principle or a truth about life. Examples: “Early bird gets the worm.” |
| Apostrophe | usually in poetry but sometimes in prose; the device of calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person or to a place, thing, or personified abstraction“For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel. |
| Argumentation | writing that attempts to prove the validity of a point of view or an idea by presenting reasoned arguments; persuasive writing is a form of argumentation |
| Assonance | repetition of vowel sounds between different consonants, such as in neigh/fade, |
| Asyndeton | Commas used (with no conjunction) to separate a series of words. The parts are emphasized equally when the conjunction is omitted; in addition, the use of commas with no intervening conjunction speeds up the flow of the sentence. Asyndeton takes the form of X, Y, Z as opposed to X, Y, and Z."Be one of the few, the proud, the Marines.” Marine Corps |
| Cacophony | harsh, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose; the opposite of euphony. |
| Chiasmus | (ki az’ mus) In rhetoric, a contrast by reverse parallelism, as in “They fall successive, and successive rise.” Repetition of ideas in inverted order or the repetition of grammatical structures in inverted order. Ex. It is boring to eat; to sleep is fulfilling. The pattern here is present participle-infinitive; infinitive-present participle. |
| Colloquialism | a word or phrase (including slang) used in everyday conversation and informal writing but that is often inappropriate in formal writing (y’all, ain’t) |
| Coherence | quality of a piece of writing in which all the parts contribute to the development of the central idea, theme, or organizing principle |
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